Comments on: Companies turning to Internal Social Networks

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:37:27 +0000

Thanks Aditya, I’m a big fan of Seesmic!

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:28:40 +0000

Joshua,

Thanks! It’s pretty intriguing when the actual employees take it upon themselves to start a social network. I’m going to check it out.

Doug

By: Joshua Kahn

Joshua Kahn — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:32:52 +0000

Hey Doug,

nice post. You missed one that has been grown organically, built by two employees using open source platforms and development (drupal) and is a great example of the anti-top-down approach. Blueshirtnation.com, Best Buy’s internal social network. Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt are the creators. Some links….

http://www.garykoelling.com/

Articles on Blueshirtnation

They’re also mentioned in Charlene Li’s book, “Groundswell”.

Cheers,

Joshua Kahn
twitter.com/jokahn

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Testing Leadership with Telecommuting | The Marketing Technology Blog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:51:49 +0000

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Social Media and the Business Strategy | The Marketing Technology Blog — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:16:11 +0000

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