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MySpace is to Facebook as Twitter is to ______
Twitter and Myspace are different companies in different markets but there is a lot of evidence to suggest that they share, and will always share, the exact same problem. MySpace and Twitter are hugely popular for uses neither company anticipated. The mission of each company is so vague that their products are stretched and molded into a variety of different uses. Instead of targeting and building their business around one of these users they take their sudden popularity as a sign they have a killer product. They don’t.
Young workers push employers for wider Web access
Ryan Tracy thought he'd entered the Dark Ages when he graduated college and arrived in the working world.
His employer blocked access to Facebook, Gmail and other popular Internet sites. He had no wireless access for his laptop and often ran to a nearby cafe on work time so he could use its Wi-Fi connection to send large files.
Sure, the barriers did what his employer intended: They stopped him and his colleagues from using work time to goof around online. But Tracy says the rules also got in the way of legitimate work he needed to do as a scientific analyst for a health care services company.
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That's what Joe Dwyer decided to do when he started Chicago-based Brill Street & Co., a jobs site for young professionals. He lets his employees use social networking and has found that, while they might spend time chatting up their friends, sometimes they're asking those same friends for advice for a work problem or looking for useful contacts.
"So what seems unproductive can be very productive," Dwyer says.
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But that also means many companies are still figuring out their online policies and how to deal with the blurring lines between work and personal time — including social networking, even with the boss.
Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y - the Facebook Generation
If your company hopes to attract the most creative and energetic members of Gen F, it will need to understand these Internet-derived expectations, and then reinvent its management practices accordingly. Sure, it’s a buyer’s market for talent right now, but that won’t always be the case—and in the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will soon find itself stuck in the mud.
Go Ahead, Use Facebook
For anyone born after 1985, entering the workforce is a technological shock. Raised on MySpace.com (NWS) and Wikipedia, these workers can't comprehend why they should have to wait 18 months for a company to build corporate software when they can download
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For anyone born after 1985, entering the workforce is a technological shock. Raised on MySpace.com (NWS) and Wikipedia, these workers can't comprehend why they should have to wait 18 months for a company to build corporate software when they can download what they need instantly.
Facebook, l’accès au service permet de garder ses employés
Un sondage commandité par Telindus et mentionné dans ITBusinessedge.com révèle que 39% des 18-24 ans américains considéreront quitter leurs emplois si l’entreprise bloque Facebook et qu’un autre 21% seront dégoutés d’une telle pratique.
Un Facebook en entreprise ? Mais vous n'y pensez pas !
La deuxième, c'est que l'univers Facebook peut très bien être adapté à l'entreprise, en interne, dans un espace clos. Elle a tout à gagner dans cette humanisation et dédramatisation des rapports sociaux entre ses collaborateurs.
Organisations should allow secure access to social networking sites :: PublicTechnology.net :: e-Government & public sector IT news + job vacancies:
Research published this week by the Gartner recommends that organisations should not block access to social networking sites like Facebook,
Rex's Thought Spot: Banning Facebook in the Workplace
La raison d'être des outils "sociaux" en entreprise est l'accroissement de la performance. Cerains ont un apport professionnel, d'autres non. Il faut également arrêter de dire que leur utilisation est une perte de temps et de productivité
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