The article, How To Make Facebook Your Company Intranet on bmighty.com caught our eye.
James Lukach, Manager Online Communications, Siemens is speaking on this subject at INTRANET INSIDER WORLD TOUR LIVE 2009, Conference and Intranet Manager Workshop, New York City, April 16-17. Jim’s session is titled:
According to the article, setting up a Facebook group is a snap, but using Facebook groups as your company intranet has a few more wrinkles, including how to handle private business information.
Setting up a private group on Facebook, as Serena Software has done, isn’t complicated. But turning it into a functioning intranet requires a little more planning and preparation. The most obvious concern about Facebook groups is the apparent lack of privacy — generally, you can both search for them and view them before deciding whether to join. But with an intranet, you don’t want anyone other than your employees to open a window into what’s happening inside the company. Fortunately, Facebook provides a solution to this dilemma: The administrator can set group membership to “invitation only.”
Read the full article here.
