Comments on: Businesses will live to regret their social media ignorance

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:26:58 +0000

We’ve got the Wiki, Instant messanger and RSS readers, not from any plan for social media, but just because it’s obviously the right thing to do. Microblogging isn’t there yet, with an IM multi-user conference instead for now. Not sure whether it’s worth running an OpenMicroBlogging server yet. Do you have one yet?

By: Lee Allgood

Lee Allgood — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:50:59 +0000

The web site above is my blog…not nearly as well done as yours Suw, but my most recent post (http://bit.ly/HXXx) is in the spirit of what you’ve written here. I hope you’ll read and enjoy.

I’m also following you on Twitter now.

Cheers!

Lee

By: Aden Davies

Aden Davies — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:49:35 +0000

An excellent post…hopefully the quicker these tools are installed inside the enterprise then the quicker people will learn how to use them properly. Microblogging internally against your own name would probably make you more thoughtful of your posted messages and this should translate to how you use these tools outside of work.

I would love to here your thoughts on ‘*sigh* Sharepoint’

By: digforleadership.com

digforleadership.com — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:50:04 +0000

I think we’ve crossed a threshold where installing social tools is actually the risk averse action to take…

Many IT departments, taking their network security responsibilities seriously, have secured their networks so tightly that they are no longer functional for the very people who need to use them. And those people now have options - they can go elsewhere…

By: Susan Rice-Lincoln

Susan Rice-Lincoln — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:58:58 +0000

I liked this post so much that I have created a post about it on my site masterthenewnet.com trying to summarize the most important points. Communications, when all is said in done, begins and ends INSIDE the corporation. If a company is flirting with social media for its conusmers, it must first implement social media for its employees. IT departments and companies as a whole have to wake up and realize that people are people and the social media furor is not a fad but an answer to what people have been searching for a long long time–more openness, more transparency and more dialogue. E-mail, while a revolution in its own time, has now been overtaken by social media. The old formulas are no longer adequate. I guess my question is why are companies so afraid?

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Why Your Business MUST Adopt Enterprise Social Software « Together, We Can! — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:15:56 +0000

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By: Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:31:56 +0000

Dave, not all wikis are confusing and require mark-up, and how they are recieved depends a lot on which software is being used, and how it is introduced. I’ve had a lot of success with wikis, particularly Socialtext, as it’s very easy to use and very useful indeed.

As regards Sharepoint… *sigh* Sharepoint is a very poor substitue for true social media.

By: Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:15:18 +0000

I’m wary of Wikis, only because they can be so polarizing. People who love them, love them. People who aren’t familiar with them find them strange and confusing and don’t want to learn a new markup language, and never go back. That’s why we’re so big on Sharepoint at SAS.

I think of it as analogous to car transmissions; I like driving a manual transmission, but I don’t expect to find one at a rental agency.

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By: Alaric Snell-Pym

Alaric Snell-Pym — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:44:15 +0000

I’ve been lucky to never work anywhere so brain-damaged, having mainly freelanced or worked for small startups in my time - but I hear plenty of horror stories…

For organisations I’ve had the luck to set up or take over the running og, I’ve always made a wiki, and it’s been invaluable. In two cases I’ve replaced a “Drive S: For Shared Stuff” setup - with things misfiled all over, or written in formats that only certain people can read/write, hard to search, and often very out of date - and never looked back. Not once!

My current dayjob involves a lot of people working from home, so we have an IRC channel to emulate those “water-cooler” discussions, which helps to keep everyone working as a cohesive whole, too. It’s frequented by the people working “at the chalk face”, while the management team just nab us individually via IM to talk about stuff, which is a pattern I’ve been meaning to analyse from a sociological perspective some day. The board love the wiki, though - we track tickets in it (it’s Trac), so they can go and look at overall status and progress whenever they want.

It always amazes me that some organisations fear such communications technologies… I dread to think what the costs of doing it any other way would be!