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 Managing the flow of information with social tools [ABSTRACT]
Tuesday, 3rd May 2011
By
Stuart Barr
Abstract:
As consumer social tools like Twitter and Facebook start to encroach on our professional lives should we see this as a blessing or a threat? Stuart Barr looks at the many benefits which these tools can bring to the organisation, from being able to collaborate seamlessly with colleagues around the world to finding out what thought leaders in your sector are saying.
Article:
As consumer social tools like Twitter and Facebook start to encroach on our professional lives should we see this as a blessing or a threat? Stuart Barr looks at the many benefits which these tools can bring to the organisation, from being able to collaborate seamlessly with colleagues around the world to finding out what thought leaders in your sector are saying.
What's Inside:
It can be a tough job keeping up with what’s going on in your personal life, but some great tools have emerged to help us stay connected to our social networks and keep up-to-date. Social tools like blogs and wikis also present new opportunities for working in a much more dynamic and collaborative way, and consumer tools like Twitter and Facebook have given us concepts such as activity streams, profiles and microblogging, which can be applied in the enterprise to great effect. These social, collaborative environments can be applied to organisations of any shape or size but they are particularly beneficial to very distributed, knowledge intensive or project-led organisations because that is where connecting with the right people and having the right information at the right time is most important.
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By Stuart Barr
Stuart Barr is a social computing consultant and leads product strategy at HighQ Solutions. He has over 12 years experience in web strategy and management, with a particular interest in Enterprise 2.0 and Social Business.
HighQ Solutions is a provider of enterprise collaboration and publishing products to some of the world’s leading law firms, investment banks and corporations. For more information visit http://www.highqsolutions.com or get in touch on: info@highqsolutions.com
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