Now, I really don't know anything about this Carr except that, presumably, he's versed in technological matters and he's published two books. I came to his blog somewhat circuitously and read his Nov 28th entry. Here Carr shares his ponderings on the imminent invasion of social networking software into the corporate sphere.
Carr writes a bunch of interesting musings, of which I'll spare you all of them. But basically he's saying that one day, the "formal" organization of the corporate world, which is construed by conventional IT systems, will be replaced by "informal" organizational systems akin to Myspace and Facebook. However, Carr also states that current informal systems include "email, PowerPoint and Excel", which frankly are as informal as getting a hand-job from the Queen of England, but I see where he's going. Carr is thinking, improbably, of an office full of executives that post memos and other such material on their personal sites, and where their little minions log on and look at them and post comments.
Fun! Except you're still answering to this guy.
1 comment:
Nice find. Already, many executives live in their own virtual worlds. It's only right that, in the future, we might get enough access to post smiley faces under their latest musings (posted by their secretaries).
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