Contributions from bloggers on how companies can use social networking tools

Videos on YouTube are part of social networking, said "disr". Companies can use them to market products but as "disr" commented in blog4biz.sg, having provocative content will bring viewers to a company's website. Other bloggers have been discussing how wikis can archive company information like orientation programmes for new employees and how blogs used to track projects can aid future learning.

sgenterprise20
.... using wikis to supplement intranet, wiki is also a practical tool for knowledge base.

1) Corporate wikipedia

For those organisations with intensive amount of domain knowledge, it will be good to have a corporate wikipedia to explain the terms in details. It is necessary to have this because some of the terms and abbreviations cannot be searched from Google or it might differ slightly from the standard definition.

Wikis are appropriate because new terms and updates can be added or corrected by anyone easily....

2) FAQs

We do encounter questions in our course of work. It can be quite exasperating when the same questions are being asked again and again. It can also be quite embarrassing if someone returns with the same question that was answered previously. Therefore a wiki FAQ comes in helpful and the knowledge can grow over time.

One example is "What a newbie should know" page. While there is a standard briefing ... for new staff, it can be quite overwhelming ... to digest the huge amount of "information download". And unofficial information (where to get paper for the photocopy machine ...etc) are usually missed out during the initial briefing.

With this information available (on the wiki), it will definitely help the new staff to adjust in the new environment faster. Then the new staff can also update any other questions and answers they encountered. ...

letsmeet@pantry
Let the office socialising grow its natural ways by providing a gigantic web notice board for your colleagues to post pictures or videos or even scribble graffiti. Put incentives in place by naming the top poster by votes and give that guy or gal a free lunch.

ProjectGilli
Having a project blog allows people to communicate in a friendly and supportive environment, cutting right across all departmental boundaries, and also allows the blog posts to be archived and searched for reference in future projects.

Have any of you ever indexed and archived all the email threads from any of your projects? I certainly haven't. Neither has my colleague, whose email inbox exceeded 2Gb and promptly corrupted itself. Goodbye to three years of emails... not saved on the project server.

disr
So how does the marketing come into play? Even though all these videos had no intentions of marketing at all, using viral videos has become the craze in the world today.

Well created ads are all over the Web, with the ads finally leading to the corporation?s websites. Having provocative content for your videos will really aid in marketing them...

GenSephyr
Actually I find something quite ironic. Isn't this site (blog4biz.sg) using a blogging format to gather feedback?

The ease of use of the blogging platform as a benefit for inter-organisation collaboration has already been demonstrated by this site.

SEND in observations and suggestions on how to use blogs, wikis, instant messaging and other social computing tools at work. Go to blog4biz.sg and start blogging. Remember to give your name and contact number so we can contact you if you win.

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