Social media and intranet case studies, best practices, & evolution by Toby Ward.
Re: Employee social networking (case study)
by Anonymous
Toby, one nagging question that I've never seen addressed much anywhere regarding 2.0 internally is what employees are looking to do better in their jobs by utilizing these tools? I know what a user personally gets out of Web 2.0. What does an employee professionally get out of Intranet 2.0 that, frankly, also delivers business value? That's not to say the benefits don't exist, but I haven't heard/read them expressed to any great extent. At some companies, such tools theoretically could quickly become a distraction (putting the socializing into social media) that hurts productivity instead of helping it. Worse, it could become one of those things where individuals and departments see it as a channel for bragging about their importance, thus prompting efforts to one-up others instead of just doing their jobs more efficiently. Any evaluation you can provide on that?
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