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There were a number of facets to this article I found interesting. First was the legal teams interest in what type of information is available on company systems. I have always thought that law and especially areas of social identity blurring with professional identity are going to be a major issue for us in the future. The anecdote about the employee profile interested in fly swatting and skinny dipping are relatively mundane versions of this. But what happens when a big sale depends on a few employees and their social profiles are embarrising in some way? Are we going to have a mega social identity site like facebook and linkedin sued? What do the architects do about this. Meskell's architectural value model puts 'customer value' 2nd right after fiscal value. Most architects only focus on the fiscal value component (ie x new technology will make us x new dollars). What happens though when technology becomes a major factor impacting all areas? How do we get our stakeholders to understand the potential impacts?

Posted by Thomas Claburn, Nov 3, 2009 06:36 PM

In a moderated discussion at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Booz Allen Hamilton VP Art Fritzson and senior associate Walton Smith shared their experiences integrating social and collaborative software into their consulting business. Read more.