re: To Social Network, or NOT

pc forum — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:30:17 GMT

Great post, explained really well and I could really understand. Thank you.

re: To Social Network, or NOT

Dave — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:44:11 GMT

Social Networking poses interesting opportunities and challenges to the Corporate environment. I know LinkedIn provides a professional network but it is difficult to know if this is actually leading to business opportunities or increased productivity in fact. The conversations running in some of the groups are sometimes purely sales and almost akin to SPAM, whilst others are more thoughtful. Even these latter types have led to some alarming mis-interpretations, what people say to each other sometimes looks rather different when written and sent to very diverse audiences. One post received an unexpectedly virulent response accusing the originator of discrimination against the disabled which was certainly not the intention of the author and would discourage that author and others reading it to venture into this world again. I don't use Facebook but have already seen it misused, a professional posted complaints about corporate policy and the overall approach which came to the attention of the very customers they were trying to sell to. It seems to me these are immature technologies and we are still very much getting used to how they can be used and the mis-steps that might be made. Banning their use in the Corporate environment would seem like overkill, but I can see that this is a likely outcome for some.