Un passo avanti verso il social networking in azienda

riccadel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:56:00 GMT

E' appena stato annunciato pubblicamente un interessate progetto interno denominto Townsquare che permette di tenersi aggiornati sulle attivita' dei colleghi di lavoro e favorisce la diffusione della conoscenza in azienda come assett fondamentale per la crescita personale e di gruppo.

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Chris Pratley, general manager of Office Labs, is slated to disclose details of the prototype -- called TownSquare -- Thursday at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. He spoke to Computerworld about the project, which was launched in January and has already been used by about 8,000 Microsoft employees.

With a layout that is strikingly similar to Facebook.com's (in which Microsoft invested $240 million in October 2007), TownSquare is fueled by enterprise news feeds that use Web services to query SharePoint for public information, such as promotions and company anniversaries, about an employee.

TownSquare also notifies users when a document or file is modified. Users can customize their feeds and monitor who is receiving information about them.

In early January, Pratley's group told 100 Microsoft employees about the network. Since then, 8,000 employees who learned of TownSquare by word of mouth have visited the network at least once, Pratley noted. About 700 use it daily..."

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Un passo avanti verso il social networking in azienda