I mentioned previously that one of the key trends at this summer’s Enterprise 2.0 conference was in how to bring public social computing tools into the enterprise in a manner consistent with requirements for compliance, security, and governance. This week SocialText reinforced that theme with the launch of the SocialText Microblogging Appliance, joining SocialCast among others with a twitter-like appliance-based application (along with SaaS offerings from the likes of Yammer and Present.ly).
The emergence of enterprise-ready tools for micro-blogging show the rapid movement of twitter-like messaging from toy to tool. Now how long before we see these capabilities as part of a unified communications offering integrated with telephony/voice, video, conferencing, and messaging?
The founders of Twitter couldn’t possibly have imagined the popularity of their little short messaging service. In the last year Twitter has gone mainstream, with everyone from Oprah Winfrey to members of Congress getting onto the Twitter bandwagon. But as Twitter usage grows, it appears that company is struggling to scale to meet demand.
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The more time I spend toying with social computing applications and services such as Twitter, and Facebook, the more I wonder when we can expect to see Enterprise 2.0 dashboards.
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Could microblogging replace the audio alerts for various appliances around your home?
It’s already started with washing machines.
So after much reluctance I have finally entered the world of Twitter so I could follow various folks reporting on events at this week’s Cisco C-Scape event in San Jose. Within a few minutes of registering I was able to quickly find friends and colleagues and follow their feeds. Without so much as posting a single “Tweet”, I already had folks following me. So I’m still a little skeptical of the whole Twitter craze, but there are some key value propositions….
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Jul 20th, 2009 |
