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I feel like blogging! Social Networks anyone?

Question is what to write about today? I've been checking out other CTO/CIO blogs such as CTOvision and Paul's NJVC Blog . Plenty of good articles on these blogs. Today I feel like blogging on the values of Social Networking. I heard once (at work), what's next FaceBook for the boss? Well, Hell yeah!!! So I've been thinking what value would social networking bring to my job. Well if I were in the big seat (the CIO), this would be a good way for me to be "in the know" about my organization. The CIO doesn't have the time to hang with the troops (even though I know he wants to). I feel that information gets distorted as it is passed up --I am not saying this is intentional, but it happens. Social Networking can help, blogs can help share the information in its raw and direct form versus getting information to the boss 3rd and 4th hand. Corporate Social Networks will be the "go to" place to find the status of a project or what went wrong or right wi