Since you’re reading this blog, you’ve bought into the value of social media. Web 2.0 and all of the social media tools that come with it – blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS, etc. But your CIO is likely not a Web 2.0 convert.

A new survey by CIO magazine (see reveals the extent of their apathy. Not only have few CIOs implemented such social media tools in their own organizations, few even use them in their personal surfing of the Internet.

Only 36% of CIOs use blogs. Wow. Less use wikis, social tagging and podcasts.

CIOs are mostly pretty dam smart. Now it’s somewhat surprising that more aren’t reading blogs and using RSS to prioritize their reading, but I also know they’re extremely busy people.

As for implementing inside the enterprise, social media is not even on the radar.

Fine by me. I’ve seen enough intranets and enterprise applications and most CIOs have far bigger fish to fry. E-commerce, ERP, employee self-service, intranet and/or portal are all far bigger and more valuable priorities.

There’s a reason why social media is not a big priority. Get the house in order first and then worry about employee blogging. But do join us in the 21^st century and start using some of these new fangled toys in your spare time...

(Tip of hat to Carm Porco >> for highlighting the survey).

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Study: Intranet blogging on the rise

McDonald’s beefs-up intranet blogs

Case study: PNM Resources CEO blog

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Lotus is still a very prevalent and common intranet platform. In fact, it might be the most common platform in a highly fractured marketplace that includes custom built, portal products, content management systems, e-commerce engines, etc.

John Roling has written a decent article on open source options for those that use Lotus-Domino or are considering it as a new intranet platform:

In addition to creating custom applications yourself (which you can always do) you can easily leverage the work that has gone on in the Notes and Domino open-source community.

OpenNTF.org is an online community of open-source Lotus Notes and Domino programmers. Their projects cover almost every aspect of Notes and Domino-based intranet functionality you may be looking for. I'll introduce you to a few of the projects here today, and in the coming months I'll go into more detail on what some of the individual applications can do for you and your company.

John cites a number of key applications up for grabs including:

• DominoWiki - wiki solution
• domBulletin - bulletin-board solution
• Blogsphere - blogging template

I’ll be honest, I’m not a fan of Domino as an intranet or portal platform, but am hugely respectful of Lotus as collaborative work tool. Though, I give IBM credit: the move towards open source is very worthwhile for Domino. Domino however still has a huge uphill battle…

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