pcworld.com — For all the talk of businesses embracing Web 2.0 and social software tools, most companies are still at the very early stages of adoption, says Jonathan Yarmis, an analyst at AMR Research who focuses on emerging technologies. In his latest research note on companies taking their first step into social media, he says that companies must avoid
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bradleylandSep 22, 2008
Social networking in a business context. I just don't get it. Maybe I'm as thick as Dvorak, but I only know a handful of people dedicated enough to their jobs that they would invest even a small fraction of their slack time in writing, contributing, or even connecting with people on a company related social networking site. You'll get the same thing you get everywhere else inside most companies. The middle-management team will jump on board because they see it as a way to blabber to their assigned group of drones, meanwhile no one else will give a s**t. If you can't get someone to read a piece of paper you drop on their desk, they sure as s**t aren't going to check their bosses blog.
richwSep 22, 2008
the last thing we need is more social networking sites. what's the point in having a million social networking sites, people don't want to sign up 20 different sites just so they can network with 20 different friends.
conwaySep 23, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008Even if the interview was done in 2006, it's still relevant. Companies are struggling with it.
redlightpacketOct 28, 2008
The most simplest way every business is going to benefit through social networking is spreading the word. That is the all basic means of communication. Every business out there works on that principal, that is how highly successful businesses make money.
cotx77Dec 9, 2008
There are some cool tools out there to measure the effectiveness of a company's external social network community. Probably the best one I know of is the Harvest 2.0 reporting server from <a class="user" href="http://www.telligent.com.">http://www.telligent.com.</a> They give easy ways to report on conversation metrics and solutions to measure community ROI.