WediaBuzz

Something worth thinking about. I spent a couple of minutes talking to Stephen Rouse from Igloo Inc. at Web 2.0.  Igloo is a company that offers corporate social networking. I’d describe it as Facebook meets Sharepoint meets intranet. It seems very intuitive and visual.

I think that the Gazette Company could really benefit from something like this. To me, it almost seems obvious. If we’re trying to innovate and create a corporate culture with the future in mind, we should be working in this kind of social network — getting our hands dirty. It’s harder to innovate if you’re not using the new media products. And this might be a “zero entry pool” approach to get the Gazette Company’s collective feet wet (for those who aren’t already there).

We can hold meetings through this, upload files, tag and share files, blog, manage company events, message eachother, create expert groups, create websites, it’s secure, we can post photo galleries, create sub-communities, maintain personal profiles, manage announcements, make knowledge libraries and forums and I’m sure a lot of other things. 

I’m not necessarily pitching this company, but the idea seems great.