Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Wrap-Up Week 7/8, Begin Week 9

Upon exploring Social Networking, I feel that there is a place for developing in-house, private social networks, particularly where there are security or privacy issues, such as in government and private industry. It is difficult to guarantee privacy on the web anywhere, and certain information would not be shared even on an in-house social network, but I think Facebook, Myspace, and others are a little too public for my applications. However, I believe that in-house social networks could come into use in coming years. They would help organize a company virtually.

I don't personally know if they have a great deal of use in honest-to-goodness training applications, but they can help in the post-training arena. As a tool to connect specialists to one another across a big complex, social networks could be used to great effect.

I'll be exploring some of these ideas in my end of the semester project.

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