A couple of interesting data points:
- A new Pew study notes that the Interent isn’t really changing who participates in politics, but Pew notes that blogs and social networking sites are seeing growing political activity.
- Brendan Nyhan on his blog points to efforts underway to leverage social computing to improve political polling
There’s all sorts of implications here from the Enterprise 2.0 perspective, not only the potential to use social computing for data gathering, but also the potential risks of employees using their public social networks to promote political views that may be contrary to their employer.
I’m curious to hear if any companies are implementing any guidelines on how employees use their personal social networks?
(Alternate Title: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Facebook and Twitter)
Last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston is in the books, and while I’d like to give the usual kudos to Steve Wylie and team for a well organized, and well executed event, I thought it also appropriate the share some thoughts as I look back.
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Cubetree launched a free collaboration suite designed to bring the capabilities of Facebook to the enterprise. But Cubetree’s offering goes a bit further that social computing by integrating more traditional collaboraton capabilities such as file sharing, as well as Web 2.0 services such as blogs and wikis into a complete SaaS-based collaboration offering. There’s a trend here, underscored by commercial products such as Telligent Community Server and IBM Lotus Connections to bring Facebook-like capabilities to the enterprise market, but where is Facebook itself in all of this?
According to a Network World Survey (583 respondents) -
A third of IT pros use sites like LinkedIN, Facebook and Slashdot for both work and play. This compares to 37% who use them mostly for work and 29% who use them mostly for play.
Source: http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/020209-social-net-survey.html?netht=rn_020509&nladname=020509dailynewspmal#slide6
Sep 13th, 2009 |
