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Social Networks Inside Companies: Brilliant Idea or FAIL?

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Michael Pusateri Walt Disney Company
Description Social networks are ubiquitous on the internet. With Millennials/Gen Y numbers rising in the workforce, can companies use internal social networks to their advantage? Will older employees participate? Do benefits of social networks, weblogs, Web 2.0 style sharing, tagging, and rating outweigh the risks to confidentiality and productivity?
Questions
Answered
  1. Why have a company social network?
  2. What are the advantages?
  3. How to deal with Legal & HR.
  4. Internal or external deployment?
  5. What are good adoption strategies?
  6. What have been some failures?
  7. Can you allow anonymity?
  8. How many companies are deploying social networks?
  9. What companies out there can help?
  10. How do you explain this to people over 40?
Level Intermediate
Category Community / Social Networks