Social Networks in Businesses
The October 2007 Searcher includes a great article about social networks—not just the ones online we commonly hear about, but enterprise social network tools, too. Tools like Visible Path and the online alumni networks SelectMinds develops can link people together in ways valuable to business. The article also discusses SecondLife and LinkedIn, a virtual world and popular business networking site, respectively. What’s particularly worth reading is how some people use other software, like wikis, to create environments ripe for social networking. And, of course, the authors point out that these applications are doing what many librarians have been doing for years: linking people together in very useful ways.
