social productivity

JP Rangaswami, on his blog, confused of calcutta, has an insightful discussion, "Musing about enterprise information and flow. ...doesn’t everyone in the blogosphere know about ping servers, search engines, aggregators, ad servers, data miners, ad servers and text scrapers?

From CW, "Are You Obsolete? How to stay relevant in the world of Web 2.0, Wii and other wonders. According to a growing chorus of IT leaders, consultants and bloggers, IT needs to shift into a new role.

What does it take for business development managers to wake up to enterprise 2.0? Over the last few years, management gurus Malone, Hagel, and now Hamel have published books on innovative management and new technologies - social network tools and community software applications. Here's a taste of what Gary Hamel has to say...

Why is it that businesses, especially business development managers, have been slow to adopt many of the new social networking applications (consumer IT). To me, the productivity gains are obvious:

"Social media [web 2.0 - social networking software and community software applications] is redefining the way people and companies around the world communicate with one another by dissolving geographical and cultural boundaries.

Cool, enterprise mashups are getting easier and easier.

"The Outsourced Brain" by David Brooks, NY Times

From eweek, "Google, MySpace Must Open Platforms for Social Network Growth"