CIO Recommendations

It is recommended that the CIO:-

They must assign one team to fully research and take ownership of the project to implement a social network - defining the scope, whether they will extend invitations to part or all of the social networks to the consumers and customers to get the updates on the latest products or to get help when it's needed.

They will need to liase with the project manager to see if it is feasible at all to implement this project. - If the benefits outweigh the projected costs.

The CIO should liase with the project manager about what functonality they want and what purpose this is to serve. How many people will be added? What would be the projected budgets for this project? What would be the lifetime of the entire project?

The CIO must decide whether or not the project should go ahead.

I would recommend that the CIO researches NEW technologies and new releases instead of twitter and facebook. The functionality of the new social networking tools would by far outweigh the current technologies. The trend seems to be swaying towards sites that can offer many different tools, such as google wave which has been called a "Collaboration Dashboard" by Sydney morning herald. The new tools and new sites house greater functionality for a collaborative learning effort.

The CIO must appoint IT persons, or admin persons to monitor the appropriate usage of the Social network within the confines of the business, and to monitor who has access. The CIO must make sure someone has written a list of guidelines before using the social network, such as language and addressing others.

Lastly, the CIO needs to make sure that users aren't going to become too informal with the way they talk, commune and collaborate. Also, it must be enforced that the social networking site is to be used constructively or not at all.