Internet Evolution - The Big Report - Can Enterprise Social Networking Pay Off? - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Jun 09
  

  Jeff Walzer
  • The dearth of hard ROI metrics should give CIOs pause. But at the same time, business leaders fear falling behind the technology curve, which is when employees start finding their own solutions. Don’t let caution or fear overwhelm good sense. It’s possible to construct scenarios where social tools benefit workers. If these scenarios resonate, a low-cost pilot is a good first step.
  • Enterprise social networking apps offer many of the features of consumer social apps such as Facebook, but with more oversight and control, and they come with analytics features to measure adoption and use.
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  • • These apps aim to provide value in three ways. First, they can bridge geographical and organizational information divisions by moving conversations out of email and hallways and into shared spaces such as blogs and wikis. This way, information becomes searchable, serendipitous connections are made, and ideas pollinate in ways they couldn’t before. Communities of interest spring up around subject matter rather than organizational hierarchies.
    • The second way social apps provide business value is by letting people add context to information stores, which helps others identify what’s useful to them and can make search results more relevant.
    • Third, enterprise social networking helps people find and connect to co-workers through user profiles, expert search, and social graphs that provide a visual map of an employee’s connections with co-workers.
• 03 Apr 09
  

  Greg Saxon

  This is interesting because I think at some level, for the workflow communities, we are introducing Social Networking to the enterprise. Interesting.

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• 26 Mar 09
  

  Chris Rogers

  thoughtful (and timely, for me) article about communicating value of "social" apps in the enterprise

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• 25 Mar 09
  

  Jim Holincheck

  Hat tip to Naomi Bloom for this link. It is a good discussion of benefits from implementing social software.

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• 23 Mar 09
  

  Neil Kirby

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  Hutch Carpenter

  Connectbeam, Spigit are included in this discussion.

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