Uberpulse is reporting that Cisco will in November go live with its first internal social networking site aimed at its developer community. The platform, which is based on technologies from start-up Liferay, will enable developers to collaborate more effectively with Cisco engineers by forming ad-hoc groups and seeking out company experts for information, reports Uberpulse.
Uberpulse cites Jim Shepard as saying that since the site was launched less than two months ago, it has attracted 2,000 users and some 350 people use it on any given day.
Shepard can be seen here in this video giving a presentation at the Office 2.0 conference explaining how the platform works.
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Very cool.
Corporations need to embrace their employees more and give them the tools to communicate better, faster....stronger.
One way is to move toward this goal is to utilize the tools which are common in the public social networking domain (Wikipedia, Myspace, Facebook, etc). Employees are used to using these types of tools in their private / personal lives...which reduces the need for complex training.
I wonder if the head of HR will be "everyone's first friend"....like Tom on Myspace ;)
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