Comments on: Gartner’s social software predictions for 2010 and beyond http://blog.socialware.com/2010/02/22/gartners-social-software-predictions-for-2010-and-beyond/ More Valued Relationships Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Joshua Baer http://blog.socialware.com/2010/02/22/gartners-social-software-predictions-for-2010-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-1086 Joshua Baer Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:37:05 +0000 http://blog.socialware.com/?p=435#comment-1086 Social isn't going to replace email, social is going to move back to email - as we're already seeing with Myspace and as is predicted with Facebook (they have not actually announced anything, TechCrunch just wrote a story about a rumor). Social today reminds me of the early ISPs. Do you remember when AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve all had silos of mail systems and you couldn't email from one to another? SMTP replaced all that and made it so that you can send email between any of the networks. The same thing will happen (and already is happening) with social. Facebook messaging won't replace email - it will become email. Social isn’t going to replace email, social is going to move back to email – as we’re already seeing with Myspace and as is predicted with Facebook (they have not actually announced anything, TechCrunch just wrote a story about a rumor).

Social today reminds me of the early ISPs. Do you remember when AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve all had silos of mail systems and you couldn’t email from one to another? SMTP replaced all that and made it so that you can send email between any of the networks. The same thing will happen (and already is happening) with social. Facebook messaging won’t replace email – it will become email.

]]> By: Adam http://blog.socialware.com/2010/02/22/gartners-social-software-predictions-for-2010-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-1013 Adam Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:57:27 +0000 http://blog.socialware.com/?p=435#comment-1013 Even more so now, IT needs to be a thought leader on topics like social networking and collaboration. However, most technology teams at corporations are still in a reactive mode to their business stakeholders. We need more IT leaders how can associate to how fast trends like social networking are moving and help loosen the reigns for their employees to innovate instead of the desire to lock all the technology down. I think some of this social networking news is just making lots of noise, but companies can't just put their heads in the sand and hope it goes away. Like outsourcing in the late '90s, this trend is here to stay. Even more so now, IT needs to be a thought leader on topics like social networking and collaboration. However, most technology teams at corporations are still in a reactive mode to their business stakeholders. We need more IT leaders how can associate to how fast trends like social networking are moving and help loosen the reigns for their employees to innovate instead of the desire to lock all the technology down.

I think some of this social networking news is just making lots of noise, but companies can’t just put their heads in the sand and hope it goes away. Like outsourcing in the late ’90s, this trend is here to stay.

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