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By: Mike
Date: Aug 22, 2007 5:01 AM - Re: Social-network sites give businesses ideas for new collaboration
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29 June 2007
Social-network sites give businesses ideas for new collaboration
Interesting article in today's Boston Globe on the development of Web 2.0 style tools to be used within organizations. The first two paragraphs:
If vendors have their way, a second wave of collaborative technologies -- including wikis, blogs, videos, and mashups, platforms and features borrowed from social-networking sites like MySpace -- soon will wash onto computers in the workplace.
Such interactive technologies are part of a larger trend known as Web 2.0 that has taken root in the consumer space. They have the potential to transform commerce, simplifying communications between employees, suppliers, and customers, speakers told business and information technology professionals at the Enterprise 2.0 conference at Boston's Westin Waterfront hotel last week.
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It's an interesting question how transformational these kinds of tools could be within an organization. Organizations, obviously, have other mechanisms for information sharing and community building, and thus there may not be the same type of vacuum that one sees in other settings. Further, many of the barriers to information sharing many be institutional and not technical (actually, I am doing some research on this with fellow bloggers Ines Mergel and Maria Binz Scharf). But I do suspect that there will be some cases where these tools could align pretty well with an organization; the trick will be to identify the appropriate settings.
Posted by David Lazer at June 29, 2007 4:01 PM
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