Marriage of Social Network and Online Collaboration

Hailin Yang Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

hy2268@columbia.edu

It’s all about information

• Increasingly Competitive World; How Competitive?First comes a story.In the morning, before u leave home, u wanna know the

weather, so using your iPhone u get access to the internet, know the weather condition, while, bad luck it’s raining in the afternoon, not necessarily go out to have dinner, instead, let’s order online, so u view friends’ recent recommendations for dinner deliveries and select one restaurant with the highest rate. As to the afternoon football training, let’s move indoor, so as the team leader, u broadcast this change to your teammates. Really cool hah!

These web servicies really facilitate our lives.

•Whenever there comes the demands, there are services

•Demands• All users want is the easiest way of getting access to the

information he or she wanna know.

• And these web services are supposed to provide the services accordingly.

Successes of Social Network

Here comes the social network!•The social networks is proved promising.

•It has a user friendly interface.

•It connects people;

•It is easy to get access to;

However, are they qualified enough?

A Comparison

• As to ordinary users, social networks prove promising.

• As to the corporations, facing such a competitive modern world, it need to find the most efficient approach and employ the most beneficial resources.

•why not make an integration?

Let’s do integration!

• Integration is built upon understanding the true needs of corporations in coping with daily confronting problems.

External needs

• External needs:

• The needs to grasp information on the market both dynamically and interactively.

• Hire the key people in a much more cost-efficient way.

• Gain the innovative idea across the globe instead of confining it within the enterprise.

Meet External Needs

• Marketing with Twitter, Facebook, Google LBC …

• Hunting Employees using LinkedIn, Viadeo, and Xing.com

Internal needs

• Manage enterprise’s internal affairs at low cost like the workflow management, financial and accounting management along with human resources management.

• Motivate workers’ incentives of innovation as much as possible.

• Next I make the analysis in a case by case manner and discuss the innovative tools for meeting these needs and related problems to it.

Meet Internal Needs

• Build the intranet using SLATES:

• Andrew in his paper, “Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration”, points out the acronym SLATES to indicate the six components “Enterprise 2.0” technologies. To put it more specifically, the infrastructure of SLATES represents

• Search, Links, Authoring, Tags, Extensions, and Signals.

Power your own intranet

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