GMTA, this is exactly what I've done! David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking and business use Well, my recommendation is that you give them a broad, high-level overview of the areas that it could be used, then suggest that for internal collaboration you start with a Wiki or something along those lines. You can get it up and running for minimal cost (time and dollars) so that they can make a better determination of the value proposition. ASB (My XeeSM Profile)<http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:19 AM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That's just it, they don't even know. We're a pretty small company and I was just asked literally this: "Dave, find out what it would take for us to use Social Networking at NWEA". And as you said - and I found out - the answer is overwhelming. David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Social networking and business use David, What does your organization hope to gain with Web 2.0 Collaboration? If they're just asking you about what is possible, then they are going to be overwhelmed by the answer -- as will you. Tell them that there are lots of options to use these technologies for better internal collaboration, external collaboration, marketing, and customer feedback/support. As them which of these objectives they would like to pursue first, and then select one or two technologies that can facilitate that goal out of the myriad of options. If they are focusing on internal collaboration, then a Wiki is one of the easiest things to bring online and start to experiment with. Life will be much better with a plan... ASB (My XeeSM Profile)<http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Competitive Advantage through Effective IT Leadership On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:05 AM, David Lum <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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]<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/> ~
