Comments on: » The shift to Social Computing | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/12/%c2%bb-the-shift-to-social-computing-enterprise-web-20-zdnetcom/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:50:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/12/%c2%bb-the-shift-to-social-computing-enterprise-web-20-zdnetcom/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Jeff Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:32:01 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/12/%c2%bb-the-shift-to-social-computing-enterprise-web-20-zdnetcom/#comment-402 My point exactly. Young people entering the workforce today expect instant messaging to be there, workers entering tomorrow will expect blogging, myspaces, facebook, and a myriad of other social computing tools. It would be like you and I joining a company in 1996 and not having email... which was the case with me when I was with Ross Systems in the early 1990's. The argument to email was "I live in voicemail, I don't need another system" and ironically the argument I hear with RSS today is "I live in email, I don't need another system"! Companies competing for the best workers are going to find themselves at a disadvantage if they don't embrace the tools that this generation consider their primary means of communicating and consuming information. My point exactly. Young people entering the workforce today expect instant messaging to be there, workers entering tomorrow will expect blogging, myspaces, facebook, and a myriad of other social computing tools. It would be like you and I joining a company in 1996 and not having email… which was the case with me when I was with Ross Systems in the early 1990’s. The argument to email was “I live in voicemail, I don’t need another system” and ironically the argument I hear with RSS today is “I live in email, I don’t need another system”!

Companies competing for the best workers are going to find themselves at a disadvantage if they don’t embrace the tools that this generation consider their primary means of communicating and consuming information.

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/12/%c2%bb-the-shift-to-social-computing-enterprise-web-20-zdnetcom/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Dennis Howlett Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:05:23 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2006/03/12/%c2%bb-the-shift-to-social-computing-enterprise-web-20-zdnetcom/#comment-396 I don't know the projected timing on this but here's my anecdotal thinking. My son's 15/16 and spends most of his time inside social software apps. In 5 years time, he'll be looking around for a grad trainee position (I hope) - what do you think he'll say to those companies who have not implemented social software apps? Who's going to hold the value in the those interviews? That's 2010-11 timeframe. Not so far off, maybe earlier if you believe the 17-18 year old age group are as/more tech savvy as my son. I don’t know the projected timing on this but here’s my anecdotal thinking. My son’s 15/16 and spends most of his time inside social software apps. In 5 years time, he’ll be looking around for a grad trainee position (I hope) – what do you think he’ll say to those companies who have not implemented social software apps? Who’s going to hold the value in the those interviews? That’s 2010-11 timeframe. Not so far off, maybe earlier if you believe the 17-18 year old age group are as/more tech savvy as my son.

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