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This is as it should be...as long as users are made aware of it. Google+ for Apps has great potential to be used inside companies, as an internal social networ
by mmahemoff 15y ago
This is as it should be...as long as users are made aware of it.
Google+ for Apps has great potential to be used inside companies, as an internal social network. Messages can be propagated easily by people "+"ing other users, and you get a much better way to communicate than email. (Much as Wave intended.)
But unlike many other "social network for the enterprise" offerings, it's porous. You can easily introduce posts to the outside world as well. This is really how most modern enterprises should work. Not a complete sandbox, but a single system where you can communicate publicly, privately, or some combination of both.
I can't see companies adopting such a thing unless they did have access to all users' data. The point is that you use it wearing the hat of your company, not as an individual.
If I was working in a big company, I'd still maintain a separate individual Plus account and use it in the same "semi-work, semi-personal" way I use Twitter. I'd still be using the company account a lot, but mostly for posts and comments constrained to circles inside the company. The only public posts would be more official posts, e.g. new product announcements.
- bigiain 15y agoI wonder how that fits in with their "real names only" policy? Will they allow you to have two accounts, one "company account" to which your boss has access, as well as a "personal account"?
- spot 15y agoyes, of course. i do. how is that a violation of any policy?
- bigiain 15y agoI don't know that it is in violation on any policy. But... Schmitt is on record calling G+ an "identity service". At this stage, I'd be somewhat cautious before allowing myself to become reliant on two separate Google accounts, and assuming they'll be allowed to stay separate, without some explicit guarantee otherwise.
- mmahemoff 15y agoIt will be trivial for Google go offer a way to tie them together, much as HN and SO let you claim other online identities via oAuth or openID.
- mhansen 15y agoUsers are made aware of it. I just signed up for an Apps account, and it told me that my domain admin could access all my G+ data.