Carr talks about My(Work)Space

One of the downsides of the blogosphere is that the same topics get talked about again and again. Here's a perfect example of that with Nicholas Carr talking about the formal and the informal IT organization.

The formal is defined as the top down enterprise applications deployed to employees and the informal being about the social tools like MySpace and Facebook that are creeping into the enterprise. He then goes onto to discuss social networks within organizations and how these informal networks are extremely important. And finally, Carr concludes by stating social networks will be adapted for corporate use. This is old news. Instead, I wish he had discussed how these social tools are actually being adopted by the enterprise or maybe how some organizations are using social networks to support the innovation process. Maybe that will come next time.