I don't mean for advertising purposes.

I mean as collaboration tools.

I hear about stuff like this: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120626/DEFREG02/306260009/U-S-Military-Launch-Website-Mirrors-Reddit?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE more and more.

I've also seen twitter-like platforms developed for the workplace to take advantage of the benefits, knowledge, retention, etc... that social media can bring.


So, is something in use by your company? How?**




**EMCE is inquiring about your company, yet remains secretive about his own

6/26/2012 4:19:46 PM

we've been using yammer for a little over a year with pretty good results (probably 1/3-1/2 the company is actively engaged on the site).

mostly to share information of general interest to our industry and employee milestones. everything official and important still goes out on the company email all user listserv


[Edited on June 26, 2012 at 4:29 PM. Reason : oh, and also for letting people know when there are leftovers from luncheons in the breakroom ]

6/26/2012 4:22:32 PM

all are blocked.

youtube isn't, though the images/thumbnails are...

youtu.be (or whatever the shorthand url is) is blocked though...

6/26/2012 4:24:36 PM

^^ Microsoft bought them fairly recently, no?


It'll be rolled into sharepoint soon enough

[Edited on June 26, 2012 at 4:28 PM. Reason : carats are the internet's dunce cap]

6/26/2012 4:27:34 PM

yup. $1.2 billion

sharepoint can DIAF though and i for one will not be yampointing

6/26/2012 4:30:59 PM

I hear that in other markets my company uses a Facebook page as a management (or more precisely, micromanagement) tool. They require their employees to update the page every night with pictures/agendas so they can make sure they are doing their jobs.

Thank God we don't use that method here. In my market we use a Google Doc that is shared by the whole region. But I don't even remember how to log into it. We did a photobucket thing for about a month as well, and again I did not contribute much

[Edited on June 26, 2012 at 4:33 PM. Reason : a]

6/26/2012 4:32:15 PM

We also have yammer, but I refuse to use it.

The pointless bullshit our people put out there is ridiculous. It reads like an Onion blog.

"Spending the day tweaking our ROI based processes to facilitate change across the silos."

Shit like that.

6/26/2012 4:41:22 PM

nope as far as i know

its a european company though

6/26/2012 5:10:53 PM

If it exists, my HR has found a way to utilize it.

6/26/2012 8:15:07 PM

we have a social networking thing

no one uses it, but you can just say people are your assistants, so i just randomly put coworkers names up as my assistants

dumb dumbs

6/26/2012 9:45:01 PM

I like Tophatter.com

6/26/2012 9:47:53 PM

We use a microblogging platform, which was internally created a few years back and is really an open source project. It has it's advantages such as the ability to create groups or subscribe to people/projects that interest you. However, I would say not everyone is as active as I would like to see.

[Edited on June 27, 2012 at 9:16 AM. Reason : J]

6/27/2012 9:12:56 AM

mine tried twitter... didn't fly.


"hey guys i'm doing prefunctional checks on air handlers today"

"STFU"

6/27/2012 12:35:22 PM

Thy just recently unblocked Facebook and Youtube here.

They are trying to push this Yammer bullshit, but I'm not having it.



qntmfred, why do you hate Sharepoint? I kinda like it.

6/27/2012 12:41:31 PM

Yeah. There's a company specific network similar to twitter. I guess it's helpful sometimes but I usually forget about it.

6/27/2012 5:45:45 PM

we just use skype

6/28/2012 8:24:01 AM

^^^ try developing for it.

6/28/2012 8:27:27 AM

1. I have always liked, and appreciated Fry as a user and a person.

2. I think one of the biggest obstacles of this social media as the main form of e-communication in the workplacw is that it cannot replace email in terms of effectiveness - are you reaching all of your intended audience?

3. I, too, don't particularly care for sharepoint.

6/28/2012 8:37:44 AM

lol the new guy just posted the fake "today is the day marty mcfly went to the future" pic

7/12/2012 9:34:43 AM

we have internal blogs and a microblogging app

7/12/2012 9:40:28 AM