Blog #1- Creating My Own Social Network

My Social Network before this class was extremely limited. I basically only communicated through e-mail, but added Facebook a few months ago. Being able to connect with others through Facebook has been interesting. But, now after doing the reading and research online for this class, I see that there are many other new and advanced tools I can use.

I work for company that is very strict with guidelines and SOP's, and following everything posted by the FDA. We are very limited with our social networking tools since we have a very strict working practice. Even people who are on Facebook socially and outside of work have actually gotten in trouble for the things they have posted online. But learning about these new tools in Web 2.0 may help advance our company a little bit more.

Now that I am learning about these new Web 2.0 tools, I am anxious to suggest these tools to be implemented at work. I really think Podcasting would be a good tool we could use, even if it was just posted internally. It would be interesting to hear directly from the European and Asian offices, as well as the board of directors regarding things in our company instead of reading an e-mail. And using a bookmarking tool where the whole company could see what sites people have visited regarding helpful information would be extremely beneficial. Some of these tools could be very useful since we have offices in about 10 countries. Then maybe we could reduce the amount of meetings we have to discuss things that could have been handled through some of the new Web 2.0 tools.

As we learn more about these tools, I am interested to see how we can implement them into a strict company, and what security and safety measures we can take to allow Web 2.0 to employees.