Companies that ban Facebook, etc. don’t understand people.
If you’re not a geek or early adopter or part of the digital generation and you are looking for an introduction to why social networking and virtual worlds are relevant for business, this is probably not a bad place to start. Roo Reynolds is a ‘metaverse evangelist’ for IBM. For those of you that already get it, you can probably take a pass as it is pretty basic stuff with really no new insights. Nonetheless it is a good overview and engaging presentation (although I wished he would speak a bit faster - the same content could have been delivered in 20 minutes I think.)
September 27th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
If a company has enough IT and HR wankers to have time to do things like banning web sites, the company’s bullshit to productivity ratio is obviously bloated, and the company is doomed.
“…business
can learn about new conditions the same way a gene
pool does. I’m not claiming companies can get smarter,
just that dumb ones will die.” — Paul Graham
September 28th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Thanks Sean. I’ll certainly consider upping the pace a bit. There are lots of other things I could have talked about if I’d had (or given myself, by covering the early ground more quickly) an additional 10 minutes.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:57 am
The highlight of incompetence is banning FaceBook but integrating LinkedIn. Some people really do not get it.
I would love to see my employees surf in FaceBook all day long, then I know where to consider cuts. You can not avoid transparency, and you can not ban FaceBook, as browsers are available everywhere, mobile, Bloomberg, iPod… ban that!