Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event)

Google Tech Talk
February 24, 2010

ABSTRACT

Social Media Revolution in the Workplace (IITMAANA Event)

Social Media has revolutionized the way we communicate and collaborate with friends and gather information from the web. The revolution is now making its way into the workplace.

The way we work is changing rapidly, offering an enormous competitive advantage to those who embrace the new tools that enable agile and simplified information exchange and collaboration to distributed workforces and networks of partners and customers.

Collaborative technologies liberate the workforce from the constraints of legacy communication and productivity tools like email. It provides business managers with access to the right information at the right time through a web of inter-connected applications, services and devices. Collaboration allows the collective intelligence of many to bubble up to the surface, translating to a competitive advantage in the form of increased innovation and productivity.

In this panel we chat with industry experts and vendors to explore topics such as:

*Who is driving the adoption of collaborative tools?
*What are the biggest barriers to adoption and how does one prove the business value/ROI around social computing?
*How does one be a better evangelist with their organization?

Panelists:
Anshu Sharma - Vice President, Product Management, Salesforce
Greg D'Alesandre - Product Manager (Google Wave), Google
Oliver Marks - Founding Partner, Sovos Group
Raju Vegesna - Evangelist, Zoho
Matt Tucker - CTO ,co-founder, Jive Software
Ross Mayfield - Charman, President & Co-founder, Socialtext
Moderator: Paige Finkelman - Business Development, Enterprise 2.0

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• google
• tech
• talk
• social
• networks

[a1mint]

Speaking of social media. Congratulations to the Youtube team for completely DESTROYING the community atmosphere of the view-all-comments page. Good grief what a mess it's now.

[CiphersSon]

Hey google thanks alot for continuian to implament feature creep on YouTube I can now bearly post comments with your new GUI and even tho google video didn't ever hold a candle to the orginal YouTube I'm shure you all now what's best and how to fix something that's not broken it would be nice however if some one spent 20 prectent of there time fixing the falce dmca problem on here !

[TomekHujek198]

Hey - I just commented on the same problem!

[TehFayzr]

Je dislike pas, mais bon, Guerre Terrestre, les ennemis on qu'un spawn, tu viens par derriere, rien de bien compliquer a faire...

[handkrafen]

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[AwwHellNaww]

why is that google wave guy even there? google wave fails at life.

[internettopmentor]

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[charlieok]

@a1mint Community atmosphere? Youtube comments are notoriously awful. See XKCD strip 202

I guess that's funny to say in a youtube comment, but there it is.

[PersianPaladin]

The changes to Youtube recently are shit.

[a1mint]

Hey - I just commented on the same problem!

My god what a mess it's now. Indentation gone, thumbs up/down stopped having any meaning. All the messages are just one big blob of continuous goo.

It's the worst bomb I've seen Google throw as of yet. I wonder if it's an outsourcing hack job or something.

I've filled out surveys, commenting on Google blogs, posted in the forums in this. I'm crossing my fingers their ego aren't too big, and they'll fix it...