So, my "research" has dumped me into "Web 2.0" and "Enterprise 2.0". OMFG this was supposed to take me just an hour or two, now it's a friggin' research paper and I'm learning all sorts of things I had no clue about! Should it really take me five hours to generate just two pages of text? Is this what college is like? :)
I let them have the question "Dave, look into us using social networking at work" be waaay to open-ended. Did they mean a corporate presence (sorta Web 2.0) , or internally (Enterprise 2.0). Somehow I think they wanted me to see what it would take to house internal social networking, and maybe Wiki's and blogs, at least that's how this thing started... I had no idea so many companies were taking advantage of leveraging Web 2.0 . One key points I have, and for discussion here: "One of the challenges to implementing Enterprise 2.0 is using it requires a cultural change in thinking in regards to how information is shared. Typically it has been shared in a top-down, published vs participation manner. Internal file systems and Intranets have typically been organized by a specific structure, whereas Enterprise 2.0 relies upon data feeds and content search." I think it took me about 90 minutes to formulate that ONE paragraph based on info from a smattering of articles on the web. I haven't even got to how much overhead implementing these (ie, manpower required) functions would take. And just this morning I find this article that demonstrates some of this: http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2009/11/enterprise-20-tools-or-mindset-if-this-is-a-true-revolution-mindset.html David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking and business use Yeah, the "My Site" functionality was very much ahead of the social networking curve. I know that it's been at least 6+ years since I attended a MS seminar on SharePoint and they were touting those feature. We've never used it, but from what I remember it was very nice and that was on version 2.0. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kevin Lundy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If you have the MOSS enterprise license, the "My Site" functionality of SharePoint gets you quite a bit. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Not quite what you think. I've been asked to look at utilizing social networking internally - a pseudo Facebook, but hosted on SharePoint and for internal use. Anyone using / looking at it in such a manner? I found a great Newsgator presentation but would like to hear from someone actually doing it. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Newark, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
