Comments on: Open Thread: Would You Like a Facebook-Style Intranet? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stunter http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66387 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:54:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66387 Hi,
yes I want a Facebook style (featured) intranet, we’ve got 120 employees who’ve all got specialist knowledge and hardly any of them know each other. Are you building one? Need a guinea pig project?

]]> By: shaidorsai http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66386 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:33:37 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66386 My employer is fairly cool about this, we’ve over 8k employees in our Facebook network. Helps that our CEO and some of our head comms guys get Facebook.

Through the use of twitter plugins you get to see more of what folk are up to, and it encouraged me to tweet more, too.

]]> By: iLibrarian » Facebook Fridays http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66385 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:21:55 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66385 [...] via Web Worker Daily [...]

]]> By: Mario Olckers http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66384 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:52:08 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66384 I think the Friday Facebook hour is brilliant. Apart from the mundane and frivolous (zombie bites & b%*$ slap) there is also serious business networking potential and I find it very informative to know the kind of people I’m dealing with (their fav books movies groups causes etc)

the Facebook naysayers tend to throw out the baby with the bathwater and mostly focus on red herrings like “privacy” and “lost productivity and time waster”. I am a fan and have derived immense value from having my siblings, university friends and serious business colleagues all in the same place and the powerful communications and sharing tool it provides you with.

It is tasteful, extremely useful and fun and I actually want to be there all the time; cant say the same for LinkedIn or twitter, sorry :’(

and for all that (free) value I am more than willing to let Z and team tap my personal details which I consciously and willingly put in there, otherwise how will they be able to provide this FREE and powerful tool?

The naysayers may peacefully be on their way and use ning, plenty of choices out there

]]> By: Archaeogeek http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66383 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:43:43 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66383 I think it would be great- particularly for fostering a feeling of connection between staff in different offices, out on site (we’re archaeologists) and working from home. It is something that we are actively looking into, though not with facebook per se, but with some kind of customised portal.

What I find frustrating is that people are happy to adopt these things for their out of work web browsing, but we get resistance when we suggest something similar for work. I guess we have to wait for our colleagues to see the benefit of social networking for work as well as play…

]]> By: Colin Loretz http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66382 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:30:30 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66382 A facebook-style intranet would be especially beneficial from an adoption perspective. A lot of intranet software is bulky (especially if its custom built, as is the case for my company) and unfriendly to the user.

Software that is easy to use and allows for communication between co-workers, perhaps even between work groups/teams would be a step in the right direction.

]]> By: Comment on Open Thread: Would You Like a Facebook-Style Intranet? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66381 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:40:04 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/04/open-thread-would-you-like-a-facebook-style-intranet/#comment-66381 [...] Read the rest of this great post here [...]

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