As the economy toughens, companies must function more efficiently. Travel budgets often suffer the first cuts, leaving geographically decentralized teams with an urgent need to replicate both structured and unstructured time together. Better collaboration tools jump from nice-to-have to core and crucial. Concurrently, employees see the collaboration, networking, problem-solving and other productivity benefits of web 2.0 tools and want to apply them at work. These tools directly contribute to knowledge capture and management as workforces are scaled back and baby boomers retire, and they boost motivation and retention, especially among millennial generation employees.
CIO magazine’s October survey of 243 IT executives found three-quarters plan to freeze or cut their IT budgets. There is a critical need for cheaper, more versatile ways for information to flow within the enterprise. Enterprise-grade versions of Twitter may be the low-cost solution that fills this need.
Twitter is a social networking, communications and publishing hybrid used to exchange short bursts of information within formal and ad-hoc one-to-many networks. Accessible from many different interfaces on both computers and mobile devices, the service adapts to diverse communication styles and settings. Twitter has proven its value in diverse business setting and is being taken seriously as a business tool that shares knowledge, connects people and spreads ideas. Twitter and similar applications are often referred to as “microblogging,” although we suggest “microsharing” as a more apt descriptor.
Microsharing for organizational communication and collaboration fundamentally changes how employees interact with others and grow their professional capacity. Microsharing connects people in ways that promote mutual support, rapid networking, inspiration, mentoring and idea exchange.
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