This week's Three To Read has an unashamedly techie bias with a look at how HR is using technology to tackle its Service Delivery priorities, a post on Enterprise 2.0 - the buzzword for institutional use of social media - and a timely guide to technology jargon past and present.

According to research by Towers Perrin, more than 60% of organisations are intending to maintain, or increase spending on HR technology in 2009.  In the post Has the Financial Crisis Shifted HR's Priorities, Towers Perrin go on to assert that Talent and Performance management systems are the number one priority, with a number of other service delivery issues following closely behind, as illustrated in the chart below:

Larry Dignan over at ZDNet shared his views on why social networking tools will go enterprise: All your employees are using them.  The post draws on Forrester's Third Annual Social Technographics Profile which indicates that more than 80% of US internet users are now active in social media.  Dignan points to the table below showing the social activities of users and suggests that we're close to the tipping point where the use of social tools in the workplace becomes inevitable.

What I find interesting when looking at these studies side by side is that the use of social tools is not featured in HR's current list of priorities, despite the hype surrounding them.  Perhaps Gartners forecast that mainstream adoption of 'social' in Human Capital Management (HCM) is 5 to 10 years away helps to explain this?

To finish off this week I've found something for those of us feeling overwhelmed by talk of virtual desktops, VoIP and 'the cloud'.  Carolyn Duffy Marsan's post 12 words you can never say in the office is a helpful way of 'joining the dots' on technologies old and new.

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