Online Communities
E-mail as an Alert System
Let’s wrap up this week of workplace efficiency discussions by looking at what email is becoming for many of us: an alert system. The screenshot above shows my personal email inbox at GMail. A quick glance shows that the majority of the messages are automated alerts from various web services: the Memphis Public Library, some [read more...]
Social Networking Behind the Firewall at Microsoft, Best Buy, IBM, and More
Here’s a good write-up from Computer World last week (thanks Mike Gotta) about successful in-house social networks set up at some major companies like Best Buy and Deloitte. Each seems to be home-grown and show parallels to Facebook and to MySpace. These are pretty tech-heavy organizations, so you can’t necessarily expect the same level of [read more...]
Seven Great Communities for Sharing Ideas on Collaboration in the Workplace
UPDATED 8/19/08: Welcome new readers from the Wikinomics blog! This is a quickly growing new site covering collaboration in the workplace using IT. Please check out the About page as well as some of the top articles on Twitter as a brand-altering force and taming the torrent of online news. Please subscribe to the news [read more...]
