"Unmanaged Possibilities Become Probabilities"

"I think in a few years’ time we’ll see an entirely new focus regarding social networking and business: It will be considered to have been a serious wrong turn…"  David Scott, CIO/Fortune 100 IT professional, author: I.T. WARS: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium.

Here is a pretty good take on the issue of social media in the workplace, as viewed from the corporate Information Technology chair.  Scott doesn't reject such use, but he does make a good case for why it must be managed.  When an employee is telling the boss why, for instance, Facebook will be benign or even beneficial  at work, this is what the boss is hearing in the other ear from the Chief Information Officer.