I don’t understand the inclusion of “personal” blogs & the whole “social” emphisis that forms part of the 6 pillars of SharePoint 2010/2013. I can’t see a business need or use for this aspect of SharePoint, can anyone else see a good busniess argument for this function in SharePoint?
I ask from a position of having to look at SharePoint being used in SME’s rather thna big muti-national corps.
I simply can’t see a business case for it, especially when many businesess discourage “social networking” in the workplace.
I have seen this useful in a few scenarios like Senior Management blogs, the techies blog and blogs within various teams in a department to keep others updated about what’s happening, any fundraisers or corporate events and stuff if your are into it. I totally understand when you say, business do not want people to talk about football game or ski or vacations which has probably to do with guidelines or usage policies but it will also help to assemble a team for a Project based on their skill’s or organize events thus help keeping employees engaged who might not be otherwise.
But, if you do not see a business case or do not see any employee engagement, then obviously you should take a step back and think about some alternatives. Cheers!
Good point Mark re: senior management…..and us “techie types”.
I have seen it work well in large corps where Senior Management blog regularly to disseminate information to their minions. I also think techies blog a lot internally (as we are used to it).
Hi Vlad, I totally see the practical business case here where a “team” needs to communicate information across a large group.
Simply don’t see it at the individual level implied on a user profile.
I’m trying to positive but failing I’m afraid :$
Pheeew, thought it was just me. I can totally see a kind of benefit for “team” blogs but nit personal.
I watched a Microsoft video on the concept a while ago, the typical “Mike at Contoso….” and still thought there was no room or business case.
Ho hum 😐
