13 Nov
The "evidence" has been sourced back to Sony
Just as the Xbox announces its new Facebook Integration, it’s been “leaked” from Sony that they will be getting in on the FB action soon too. The screenshot seems legit and of course Sony are saying nothing so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
Fingers on the Hide button of heavy gaming friends, their posts could soon be getting a whole lot duller- “Now on Level 1,2,3,4,5………”
12 Nov
Business Networking
With LinkedIn recently hitting 50M members and growing at a rate of 1 member per second. I decided I should revisit the profile I had made up over a year ago. After a bit of a spruce up and update of what I’ve been up to in that year I embarked on a new mission to connect with former colleagues and new business connections. In the days since I have had a fair bit of success. A fair few messages have been exchanged and some meetings set up with interesting contacts. It’s good to be able to delineate my social life in Facebook with my professional life in LinkedIn. I’m still exploring some of the additional features in LinkedIn but enjoying my new journey so far.
12 Nov
Twitter for Business
A great way to bring Social Media into the workplace is Yammer.
It’s Twitter with a business edge as only people from within your network can access or read the posts, or do we call them yams???
You can also setup rooms where each member of a particular project or department can communicate privately, allowing real time collaboration without clogging up email.
Its easy to get going too as all you have to do is get everyone in the organisation answering the simple question “What are you working on?”. It’s amazing knowing what colleagues down the corridor are working on and being able to spot potential crossover or opportunities. With a few extra clicks users can create mini social profiles which can function as a low cost, user updated internal directory with the option for photos. Good for putting a face to the name in larger organisations!
