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Meg · 2 years ago

Congratulations! We are all very excited to see your project succeed. Please be sure to post information about how you are collecting enhancement suggestions when you get that worked out.

Tim · 2 years ago

Hey Paul
I started a comment but it was turing into an essay so I blogged it instead - http://blogs.oracle.com/xmlpublisher/2007/08/08...
Tim

Jake · 2 years ago

Tim: Commented in your blog, dunno if it committed, grrr. So, your list and ours are very close. Keep checking back b/c we're rolling new features every day, e.g. picture upload went live today. Rich did that before he went hacking.
Jake

r. lakshaman · 2 years ago

help
I have 4 sevice apartments in Jayanagar , Bangalore.
Will the company rent them?!

Dan Clamage · 2 years ago

So what's your social app called? How can us developers see it from the other side of the firewall? Can you see any reason why we should NOT be able to use it?

A decade ago I had an interesting conversation with one of your engineers regarding making Designer available for download, to "jumpstart" the number of Designer-fluent developers. Then lo and behold, it magically appeared on OTN (if just for a couple of weeks). Now Oracle routinely makes all of it software free for the download. So you see, freely sharing ideas works.

You get your best ideas from your customers. So let us inside your organization just a little bit. Make your employees visible to us as they are to each other.

Paul Pedrazzi · 2 years ago

Hi Dan,

The sharing of ideas between customers and employees is hugely valuable and we do it today via many, many avenues (focus groups, online forums, customer support calls, etc).

Now, are these systems as collaborative as I'd like? Of course not, but we know its required and it's on our radar, so stay tuned.

The truth is that sharing ideas does not require a completely open social directory. In fact, there are lots of reasons (legal, competitive, IT security, etc) not to put an employee directory on the web. I can't name a single large (or small frankly) enterprise that does that today: GE, IBM, Bechtel, MSFT, ORCL, JP Morgan, etc, etc.

It's an interesting idea for sure, but given where the world is with the adoption of "2.0" I think the opening of everyone's corporate hierarchy is a ways off.

Thanks for the comments and pushing the envelope.

Paul

Venkatramana Reddy · 2 years ago

Hey..Its great Idea !! Please go ahead!.

social web designer · 1 year ago

oracle gets social. some intresting things are going on. I wonder the direction things are going to go if murdoch makes the talked about deal with yahoo for myspace.

MySpace Design · 1 year ago

That's really funny... people just friggen love adding people to their "network". The action has become an online carrot.

Jake · 1 year ago

Agreed, collecting friends/contacts is a big piece of the fun in any social network, for work or play.

socialnetworkdesign · 10 months ago

More companies should look into the idea of hosting their own local social network, especially larger companies. Sitting in a cubicle all day doesn't promote human interaction, providing a place to meet people you already work with is a great concept. From a business perspective, it also allows for it to be moderated and controlled, which some users may not care for however.

Jake · 10 months ago

Agreed 100%, which is why we started this network and continue to improve it.

Rick Sauter · 10 months ago

Nice to have found this site and see what you all are doing in this area. Would be very interested in hearing more since the original post was a year and half ago. My company is actually planning a March webinar on "Building Employee Branding And Engagement With Internal Social Networks" Currently participating is the Mayo Clinic and EMC Corporation. Wondering if you might be interested in being involved and sharing your experiences and insight. Let me know via email and we can discuss. Thanks!!

Jake · 10 months ago

Hi there. Yeah, we've been working on Connect for a while now. I did a short history-nostalgic post when we launched our most recent redesign if you want more background. Will drop you an email.

Adrea · 9 months ago

Hi, what is the name of your company? I am interested in letting my boss know about this webinar... we are currently doing research on internal social networking. Thanks!
adrea@ufl.edu

Jake · 9 months ago

Hi Adrea. I think you're looking for Communitelligence. They're having a webinar tomorrow that will cover what we (Oracle AppsLab) have done internally with social networking.

I think you're looking for Rick Sauter over at Communitelligence.

wollongong web design · 9 months ago

I'm also interested with webinar, specially meeting up with persons like Lee Aase, Polly Pearson and other staffs of webinar, I'll keep an eye on this one.. thanks for the info..

CherylH · 1 month ago

Great article, very interesting read! Our business had found that by having an internal social network and an external custom social network both the employees and the business are benefitting. It has fostered a true sense of teamwork and collaboration and has increased productivity. From the companywide virtual bulletin boards to our private work groups sharing ideas and information had never been easier. Misplaced files and lost notes that could potentially hold up progress have now mostly been avoided. Our clients enjoy the custom social networking as well, it has improved customer retention and loyalty and greated increased response times to inquiries.

Jake · 1 month ago

Thanks. We're seeing the same wins from Connect and Mix. It's funny to look back to when this post was written and see how far social has come since then.