Forrester: Social Technology is Like Sex - ReadWriteWeb. Forrester Research CEO, George Colony, writes a blog where he helps other CEOs understand how business and technology intersect.
His most recent post compared social media to sex, a comparison that may have you giggling at first, but is actually a pretty apt way of describing what it's like to delve into the social realm. According to Colony, you can't understand the hot new media tools and technologies like Twitter, Facebook, and blogging by merely reading articles or reports about them. You simply won't be able to really and truly learn what they're all about until you participate. That's why social media is "like sex," he says. No Really, the Employees are on Facebook - ReadWriteWeb. FaceTime Communications, the makers of hardware solutions for security, management, and compliance, have collected live traffic data from more than 80 mid to large commercially deployed networks worldwide - data representing the daily web-based activities of more than 100,000 corporate workers.
At the same time, they surveyed I.T. managers on a number of topics, including how many Web 2.0 applications they believed were in use on their networks. They then compared the two sets of findings. The conclusion? On a day-to-day basis, it seems I.T. managers don't know what their employees are doing - or what web apps they're using. Web 2.0 at Work. Library Use Value Calculator: Maine State Library.