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The Future of Collaborative Networks - 2 views

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shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 03 Jan 10 - Cached

Vendors of this social software have repurposed social media tools from the consumer web by wrapping them in an enterprise message. Suddenly social networks, social bookmarking, forums, blogs, video sharing and microblogging are the new path to productivity. Alas, it has become all too clear that individually these applications have not delivered for the enterprise in a meaningful way.
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product development that is driven by feature checklists
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This approach to software development does not work.
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This class of software forces business users to adopt the myopic social visions imagined by the developers
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They exacerbate the real problems within businesses by creating distractions and, worse, proliferate more disconnected data and application silos.
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Rather than focusing on socialization, one to one interactions and individual enrichment, businesses must be concerned with creating an information fabric within their organizations.
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When you make this information fabric easy to edit between groups of individuals in a dynamic, secure, governed and real-time manner, it creates a Collaborative Network.
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Social media technologies have been revolutionary in the consumer web space and are useful in creating engaging online communities. However, isolated pockets of socialization within business bring little value to the organization as a whole.
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Now the big question is, how do you implement a Collaborative Network? What are strategies and best practices? What technologies and design patterns are best suited?
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Suffice to say, Collaborative Networks in the enterprise will undoubtedly be as indispensable as e-mail and telephones are to us today.
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