Comments on: A Wonderful Discovery http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/a-wonderful-discovery/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:06:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Phil Nash http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/a-wonderful-discovery/#comment-65203 Phil Nash Tue, 06 May 2008 08:07:42 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-65203 As Roddy says above, I read somewhere that smoking breaks are the cross departmental networking opportunity and that, since the smoking ban has removed such communal areas as the smoking room, all that chat has now gone leaving businesses worse off. In the corporate world they are now considering replacing this by rolling their own social networks within an intranet in order to get people talking again. A simple tea break seems far easier and less costly though, as does allowing employees to use social networks that already exist (as long as it's mostly for work purposes, can't have employees on Facebook all day). As Roddy says above, I read somewhere that smoking breaks are the cross departmental networking opportunity and that, since the smoking ban has removed such communal areas as the smoking room, all that chat has now gone leaving businesses worse off. In the corporate world they are now considering replacing this by rolling their own social networks within an intranet in order to get people talking again. A simple tea break seems far easier and less costly though, as does allowing employees to use social networks that already exist (as long as it’s mostly for work purposes, can’t have employees on Facebook all day).

]]> By: Roddy MacLeod http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/a-wonderful-discovery/#comment-65057 Roddy MacLeod Fri, 02 May 2008 21:38:46 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-65057 I comment here in the expectation that it will, as usual, be classified as spam. Much more solid business gets done during a communal mid-morning smoko out the back door, than gets done at tea breaks. Tea breaks are too formal. I comment here in the expectation that it will, as usual, be classified as spam.

Much more solid business gets done during a communal mid-morning smoko out the back door, than gets done at tea breaks. Tea breaks are too formal.

]]> By: ajcann http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/a-wonderful-discovery/#comment-65056 ajcann Fri, 02 May 2008 19:56:35 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-65056 Yesterday one of my colleagues couldn't attend a meeting because of illness, so they stayed at home but were not to ill to tweet (could have been tweeting on the loo for all I know). Target for the meeting was a crusty web skeptic. Remote participation in the meeting via Twitter was so successful that the crusty went away convinced of the value of the technology and vowing to change their ways. So maybe we should add sick days to tea breaks as a way to boost productivity? ;-) Yesterday one of my colleagues couldn’t attend a meeting because of illness, so they stayed at home but were not to ill to tweet (could have been tweeting on the loo for all I know). Target for the meeting was a crusty web skeptic. Remote participation in the meeting via Twitter was so successful that the crusty went away convinced of the value of the technology and vowing to change their ways. So maybe we should add sick days to tea breaks as a way to boost productivity? ;-)

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