Technics: Social Media: Gonna' take over the workplace?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette carries an article by Elwin Green on "Workzone: Social media slowly finding acceptance in workplace" (Nov28,2k10):

Workzone: 

Social media slowly finding acceptance in workplace

Within the next few years, companies that have resisted the use of social media in the workplace may find that resistance is futile.


Earlier this month, a representative of technology research firm Gartner Inc. predicted 20 percent of employees will use social networks rather than e-mail as their business communications hub by 2014. 

Speaking at an information technology expo in Cannes, France, research vice president Monica Basso said, "Today, social paradigms are converging with e-mail, instant messaging and presence, creating new collaboration styles."


Just days later, Facebook founder Marc Zuckerberg announced the social networking giant will soon roll out Facebook Messages, an offering that will integrate new e-mail features with texting and chat.

The most important element of the foregoing may be "new collaboration styles."

-- Technowlb