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The Go Big Always blog has a nice post about the ‘naysayers timeline of technology in the workplace’.

And a great follow-up post about ‘Norman Naysayer’. You might know a ‘Norman Naysayer’ or two or maybe you work with a whole team of ‘Normans’.

The ‘naysayers’ said…….

• there is no way email will work in the workplace

• we can’t let employees have internet access at work

• eCommerce? too risky

• Instant Messaging is too distracting for the workplace

And now, those same ‘naysayers’ are saying that there is no place for Social Software and Web 2.0 tools in the workplace.

My prediction…..

• Blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts will become a large part of internal corporate communications.
• Twitter-like tools will be used by groups of employees and project teams to keep everyone informed of what others are doing.
• Basecamp-like tools will be used by project teams for organizing, managing, and collaborating on projects.
• Some type of Facebook-like, LinkedIn-like tools will be used for internal networking.
• Employees will have personalized, customized home pages like iGoogle and Netvibes. Employees will be able to add modules/widgets to their home page that contain enterprise information, data, charts, and graphs that are tailored to their specific job function.

It won’t happen overnight. But, I promise you, the ‘naysayers’ will be proven wrong……again.

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