Theses 43-49

Theses 43 – 49 Mary Joaquin

Such conversations are taking place today on corporate intranets. But only when the conditions are right.

• There are conversations that exist inside one’s intranet but those conversations are limited or are restricted • In each intranet, it is possible that several conversations take place. • Most of those conversations have different topics.

Companies typically install intranets top-down to distribute HR policies and other corporate information that workers are doing their best

• Top – Bottom is different from Bottom – Up • Top – Bottom is more on the administrative side activities, information • WORK! WORK! WORK!

Intranets naturally tend to route around boredom. The best are built bottom-up by engaged individuals cooperating to construct something far more valuable: an intranetworked corporate

• Bottom-up is different from top – bottom • Bottom – up gives a little more emphasis on their employees

A healthy intranet organizes workers in many meanings of the word. Its effect is more radical than the agenda of any union. • Intranets are there most likely to empower and organize them (employees or workforce). • Creating an environment where their employees would not just think that their company is a place where they could work • Creating the kind of atmosphere or instilling to them that this is also a place where you guys could nurture your talents and learn more.

While this scares companies witless, they also depend heavily on open intranets to generate and share critical knowledge. They need to resist the

• Public class Company { If {Intranet == Depend && Intranet == Scares} { Console.WriteLine(“Ironic!”); } }

When corporate intranets are not constrained by fear and legalistic rules, the type of conversation they encourage sounds remarkably like the

• What causes the sudden change in employees conversation? • Employees tend to sound unnatural because their voices are taken from them • Intranets less imposition of rules = open, honest, and genuine

Org charts worked in an older economy where plans could be fully understood from atop steep management pyramids and detailed

• In the past, employees depend so much for answers to their authorities • That works for them (net wasn’t there yet) • Orders are handed down like literally now could be automatically done