Wednesday, June 03, 2009

RAVES: Social Networking for Enterprise

The explosion of social networking sites has been incredible. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc all have people updating themselves in one way or another. However, in the enterprise environment, I'm tasked with the duty of keeping data, content and IP safe. This goal and public social networking sites do not go well together.

Enter enterprise-level business networking sites. I just finished reading the eWeek article reviewing 3 potential solutions: Socialcast, Socialtext, and Huddle. We are seriously considering our options for capturing, processing, and presenting different types of videos. In reading the article, I kept an eye out for these sites to include video. Not much to be said, but the video aspect may be something that draws us into SAAS (Software As A Service) solution.

At the end of the day, our users are becoming more savvy. The way they handle personal business will easily carry over to work-related business and make them more productive if we provide the tools to do it.

More to come, I'm sure. Happy computing.

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