Social Networking
Social networking is going to work its way into your organization's routine activities in the next year or two. If you don't think so, remember back when email first appeared and how you thought there was no use for it in your organization. I've been watching the goings-on in the Web 2.0 craze with great interest in how it might prove useful to my Indianapolis computer consulting customers. We're not diving in and having them all Twitter their customers, or build a presence on MySpace or Facebook. We are having some of them create blogs. We've asked all of them to create a LinkedIn account. Many are using Google Apps to collaborate on projects.

There are so many Web 2.0 sites that do similar things. It's too messy right now for those to whom I provide business computer support. So instead I play with these things and bring the ideas I find back to them. If you have a computer outsourcing arrangement in your office, you should start hearing about how some of these online services may help your business. The web isn't just for advertising. There are tools out there now that can make you more efficient.