Recreate or integrate … that is the question?
Posted on July 7, 2008. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, blogging, intranet, social media, social networking | Tags: blogging, Facebook, internet, intranet, social media tools, social networking, what is an intranet |
As we’ve busily rolled out one social media tool after another within BT, one question has got bigger and bigger in my mind and has become increasingly troublesome … what’s the right balance between recreating stuff on our intranet that already exists on the internet, and just integrating tools from the internet into our intranet [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 14 so far )Enterprise social networking has landed in BT
Posted on June 17, 2008. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, social networking | Tags: enterprise social networking, Facebook, social networking |
Last weekend we launched our internal enterprise social network … my profile page is below (still a bit empty as I haven’t had a chance to play with it yet).
So what’s on offer on this page?:
top left is the normal friends functionality … only we call them contacts because it would never do to have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 24 so far )Twitter and TV …
Posted on May 27, 2008. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, social media | Tags: Eurovision Song Contest, Facebook, social media, television, TV, Twitter |
An interesting post on the BBC dot.life blog about the use of Twitter during the annual Eurovision Song Contest – it always amazes me each year that this is still going! Anyway, what’s interesting to me about this post is that it graphically illustrates the power of social media tools. It strikes me that people [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Give them a voice and they might just use it ….
Posted on February 11, 2008. Filed under: Facebook, organisational culture | Tags: Facebook, social networking |
Here’s an interesting dilemma … as a forward looking organisation you let your employees have access to blogs and social networks because you want them to join the conversation.
On a social utility service, like Facebook, some disgruntled customers set up a ‘hate’ group about your organisation. In among the rants appear some negative [...]
Another rant against Facebook …
Posted on January 15, 2008. Filed under: Facebook | Tags: Facebook, Guardian, Tom Hodgkinson |
An interesting anti-Facebook (FB) rant in the Guardian today from Tom Hodgkinson. I have expressed some reservations about this phenomenally successful social networking tool and what motivates people to use it previously on this blog, and I have some sympathy with some of his views. However, I fundamentally disagree with some of his points.
‘Why [...]
What is an ‘intranet’?
Posted on December 19, 2007. Filed under: Facebook, intranet, social media | Tags: BT, Facebook, intranet definition |
What we mean by the word ‘intranet’ has evolved from a bunch of web pages hosted inside a company firewall to … to … to what exactly??
I was reading a post from Paul Miller on the Intranet Benchmarking Forum blog about Facebook ‘… not cutting it as an intranet’ and it got me thinking. At [...]
Where do I start?
Posted on December 10, 2007. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, intranet, social media | Tags: Facebook, intranet, Web 2.0 |
I’m often asked this question; ‘I want to introduce social media tools on my intranet but I have no idea where to start – what’s your advice on taking the first tentative steps?’
The first thing I would do is try to find other people within your organisation who already use social media tools on the [...]
What makes one zombie attack meaningful and another meaningless?
Posted on November 29, 2007. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, social media, social networking | Tags: Facebook, Gaping Void, MySpace, social convention |
In an earlier post I expressed a concern that Facebook seemed to be getting a bit out of control and wondered what motivated people to continue adding more and more applications to their profiles resulting in a deluge of pokes, superwall/funwall posts, zombie attacks, reviews blah blah raining down on all of us … I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Facebook the new bogeyman …
Posted on November 22, 2007. Filed under: Facebook, Web 2.0, intranet, social media, social networking | Tags: Daily Telegraph, Facebook, internet misuse |
Why has the media got it in for Facebook? Yet another completely misleading article appears today in the Daily Telegraph under the headline: ‘Wasteful Facebook Addicts Face the Sack‘. The article claims:
“It found that more than 1,700 people working for 65 public institutions have been dismissed or disciplined for internet or email misuse in the [...]
Depressed and disconnected (2) …
Posted on November 2, 2007. Filed under: communities, social networking | Tags: community, conspicuous consumption, Facebook, friends, global warming, social networking, suburbs |
One of the objectives of developing suburbs around towns was to get people to buy more stuff. Unfortunately, it worked rather too well. While I wouldn’t wish to blame suburbs entirely for the break down of community, they did help release the brakes on the juggernaut of conspicuous consumption which is used by many people [...]
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