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Title:

Social Networks Inside Companies: Brilliant Idea or FAIL?

Your vote:
Yes No
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
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Sarah Denman
on 16/8/08
This sounds like a very interesting session - looking forward to it!
Ken Rudman
on 27/8/08
sounds very interesting
Brian Wantuch
on 27/8/08
Five stars.
Philip Lelyveld
on 28/8/08
Michael, this is a great and important topic. You should be mobilizing your online communities to support this panel. Unless you've got a lock on a panel spot, get on it before the deadline. I hope to see you there, if not sooner.
Nashville Limo
on 13/3/09
How do you get a social networking company to accept a new motion and still image format? Suggestions?
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