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I have heard Facebook referred to as &#8220;social <strong>not<\/strong>working&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a growing feeling that social networking can generate opportunities &#8211; to connect people and to make expertise and help more visible in large organizations.<\/p>\n<p>BT is to roll out Facebook-style social networking services to its 100,000 UK employees. It expects to make<em> &#8220;significant gains in productivity, help the organization keep track of the skills of its workforce and make it easier for BT staff to find the right experts within the company for the projects they are working on.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I guess it will be a good test bed to see what is the balance of cost and benefit. We are starting to work with clients on how these social media tools can support virtual teams and matrix organizations &#8211; there is definitely something in it.<\/p>\n<p>What is your experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many organizations remain concerned that allowing access to social networking sites at work can cause wasted time and distraction, but BT is to roll out Facebook-style social networking services to its 100,000 UK employees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Social networking systems - opportunity or waste of time - Global Integration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Many organizations remain concerned that allowing access to social networking sites at work can cause wasted time and distraction, but BT is to roll out Facebook-style social networking services to its 100,000 UK employees\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/social-networking-systems-opportunity-or-waste-of-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Social networking systems - opportunity or waste of time\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Many organizations remain concerned that allowing access to social networking sites at work can cause wasted time and distraction, but BT is to roll out Facebook-style social networking services to its 100,000 UK employees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.global-integration.com\/insights\/social-networking-systems-opportunity-or-waste-of-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Global Integration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-06-02T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-21T08:30:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevan Hall\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevan Hall\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/social-networking-systems-opportunity-or-waste-of-time\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/insights\\\/social-networking-systems-opportunity-or-waste-of-time\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevan Hall\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.global-integration.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3ad6577af9c33612e410fbcdc3ff2a9a\"},\"headline\":\"Social networking systems &#8211; 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