{"id":805,"date":"2007-11-06T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=805"},"modified":"2007-11-06T01:00:53","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T09:00:53","slug":"social-media-best-practice-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Best Practice #3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/systematic.hrblogs.org\/2007\/09\/11\/social-media-in-the-enterprise-best-practice-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">other systematic\u2019s<\/a> (Systematic Viewpoints\u201d series on social media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Best practice #3: Collaboration requires a balance of freedom and governance to thrive.  ((Systematic Viewpoints, September 11, 2007.  \u201cSocial media in the enterprise &#8211; best practice #3.\u201d))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the post, he uses a Sharepoint example where \u201cemployees had been given broad access to Sharepoint. Folks rushed out and set up their own spaces, and now nobody collaborates across them. As a result information and knowledge is more hidden than it was before \u2018collaboration\u2019 became broadly available.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are two points here.  First, employees are quite excited to collaborate and find ways to distribute their knowledge.  In general, people are eager to get the word out for the great work they are doing.  This assumes two things:  1) there are of course people and silos that are very secretive for various reasons, and 2) people are engaged with their work and do indeed think it\u2019s great work.<\/p>\n<p>The second point however, is that given their own means, collaborative efforts without a good process to coordinate all the energies will result in failure.  We call this governance, and more than enough has been written about the topic.  However, it\u2019s worth pointing out in the context of the specific example.  When we talk about ways to collaborate in a Web 2.0 environment, we say that governance is critical.  But too many people think about Web 2.0 governance as applied to wiki\u2019s, blogs, etc.  However, very many organizations have deployed the Sharepoint technology without realizing that the collaborative possibilities are just as great and the need for governance is as well.<\/p>\n<p>As the other systematic points out: the balance between freedom and governance is critical.  Employees will collaborate on their own, given the right tools.  But the maintenance and health of that collaboration takes work, and there is a fine line between governing the process and stifling collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the other systematic\u2019s (Systematic Viewpoints\u201d series on social media: Best practice #3: Collaboration requires a balance of freedom and governance to thrive. ((Systematic Viewpoints, September 11, 2007. \u201cSocial media in the enterprise &#8211; best practice #3.\u201d)) In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,28,2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-hr-technology","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}