Connectbeam has just landed and brings with it ‘Social Networking’ specifically designed for corporate users. Sounds rather good, that is until you take a look at the rather unexciting and stereotypical business style homepage. Corporate doesn’t have to be boring, corporate doesn’t have to have a picture of a man in a suit using a laptop. I love the idea of a social application that’s designed to meet the needs of a busy business environment – i’d love to be using one. However, i can’t help feeling that with statements like this:
“Information Technology (IT)
Gather, and harness the collective intelligence of your enterprise. Majority of your company’s data resides on the company Intranets accessible through a Web browser. Harness the collective power of your employees by empowering them to leverage, organize, collaborate, and contribute to this data via the use of ConnectBeam’s social bookmarking and collaboration application.”
…we are going back in time to the year 2000 when the dack generator was key to many ’serious’ business proposals. Sigh.