What are you working on? Twitter-like tools for the enterprise
In Enterprise 2.0, and indeed as early as June last year, I talk about the benefits of internal micro-blogging using enterprise versions of tools like Twitter.
If this is an area of interest to you (and it probably should be), then I strongly recommend you read two posts from Jeremiah Owyang and Neville Hobson.
In List of enterprise microblogging tools: Twitter for the intranet, Jeremiah has started a list of vendor offerings in the area (currently standing at eight). Well worth watching I think.
Neville takes one of the offerings, Yammer, for a test drive in Twitter for the enterprise from Yammer.
Like blogs, wikis and other social software that has gone before, I advise caution. Make sure you know what you want from such tools (and also what you need in terms of security and control) before diving straight in.
I’m trying to figure out what Yammer has that makes it more than just an incremental me-too improvement on Twitter for enterprises. If its feature set isn’t that much different from Twitter, I’d like to see Twitter just add that to their features. Twitter has the strongest user base and I’m sure it can find an elegant solution to keep its user from jumping to Yammer and others.