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  Is it a good idea to break down KM and SM adoption in the
  enterprise by age? I am not sure. Dave Snowden's comment to the
  article is quite clear that it does not. I am on the fence, but I
  think that the summary is true, Social Media type applications
  will gain more prevalence in the enterprise simply because so
  many baby boomers are beginning to clear out and so many
  millenials are moving in. If some boomers are in favor of social
  media then all the more reason for it's rise

   "The technology stuff is reasonable, but the crude
    characterisation by age group is a nonsense. So called Boomers
    are amongst the highest adopters of social computing.
    Interestingly putting things into crude categories is a process
    based approach. People do not have ideas and attitudes by age
    group"

   "KM and SM look very similar on the surface, but are actually
    radically different at multiple levels, both cultural and
    technical"

   "Nothing describes the motivation behind the creation of Facebook
    better than “because it was possible.”"

   "It takes no great genius to predict how the war will end. The
    Boomers will retire and the Millenials will win by default, in a
    bloodless end with no great drama. KM will quietly die, and SM
    will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, with the Gen X leadership
    quietly slipping the best of the KM ideas into SM as they guide
    the bottom-up revolution"
 
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