Well, perhaps shut up – or so it would seem when it comes to managing the way that people communicate and choose to communicate or maintain their personal and professional networks – according to Mat Asay:
the point is that enterprise applications need to interweave with how people actually communicate: email, IM, phone (VoIP), and…Facebook.
This is exactly the reason why I’ve added the Facebook app to my BB – just incase someone prefers to use that, I should not hold my nose so high as to ignore them because “that’s not the way that I roll”. My personal style of rolling may not prefer FB – I like email, but I’m essentially a old timer in Internet years, but I certainly can’t ignore it.
I’ve been thinking to get people who use Facebook together on campus to see what they are doing and establish some manner of best practice around it so that it doesn’t get turned off for some reason or another – something that is not likely to happen, but I can see it being used poorly by someone and then biting them in the butt pdq as well.
What I really like about it is that it keeps passive lines of communication open and allows people to “catch up” quickly. Providing a great tool for teams that work apart, as is blogging or twittering, but blogging tends to feel long for many and twitter a bit barren.
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