Comments on: Facebook in the Enterprise http://drrobevans.com/2009/01/27/facebook-in-the-enterprise-2/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: RussH http://drrobevans.com/2009/01/27/facebook-in-the-enterprise-2/comment-page-1/#comment-730 RussH Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:25:33 +0000 http://drrobevans.com/2009/01/27/facebook-in-the-enterprise-2/#comment-730 If you're a coprorate network administrator or even 'just' a line manager and you se eyour personnel on facebook discussing their plans fo rthe weekend, or playing MobWars, sending each other virtual presents etc - then you would understandably take a dim view of it. If we're all responsible corporate citizens and only use it for business purposes... then that's not FaceBook unfortunately.."You're living in a dream world" If you’re a coprorate network administrator or even ‘just’ a line manager and you se eyour personnel on facebook discussing their plans fo rthe weekend, or playing MobWars, sending each other virtual presents etc – then you would understandably take a dim view of it. If we’re all responsible corporate citizens and only use it for business purposes… then that’s not FaceBook unfortunately..”You’re living in a dream world”

]]> By: Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron http://drrobevans.com/2009/01/27/facebook-in-the-enterprise-2/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Mike Maddaloni - The Hot Iron Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:06:10 +0000 http://drrobevans.com/2009/01/27/facebook-in-the-enterprise-2/#comment-729 From my own past experience with corporate IT, there are 3 reasons I can think of for why they don't embrace social media sites like Facebook: 1 - They don't understand it, and don't take the time to. As a result, media hype (aka all of the bad things about it is all they know. 2 - Risk of confidential information showing up on there - But if that is the case, they may as well block every blog, forum Web site too! 3 - Laziness - Some corporate IT departments are lazy, and rather than explore something, they just block it - end of story. The above, of course, are some of the reasons why I started my own business! mp/m From my own past experience with corporate IT, there are 3 reasons I can think of for why they don’t embrace social media sites like Facebook:

1 – They don’t understand it, and don’t take the time to. As a result, media hype (aka all of the bad things about it is all they know.

2 – Risk of confidential information showing up on there – But if that is the case, they may as well block every blog, forum Web site too!

3 – Laziness – Some corporate IT departments are lazy, and rather than explore something, they just block it – end of story.

The above, of course, are some of the reasons why I started my own business!

mp/m

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