Welcome to the Orglines blog about social networking and Enterprise 2.0.
Orglines aims to help organizations work better using social networking and web 2.0 technologies. At the center of both social networking and web 2.0 is a transfer of control away from central authorities to the citizens who make up a community. Sometimes described as “crowd-sourcing” or capturing the “wisdom of crowds”, the resulting marketplace of ideas can be more efficient at gathering, sorting, prioritizing, and refreshing information than any centralized middleman. Wikipedia is a prime example of the power of such communities.
Orglines.com will engage citizens to create org charts by contributing what they know about their organizations better than anyone else: their own titles, job descriptions, and reporting relationships in the form of semantic connections to their co-workers, like “friends” on Facebook, but work-related and context-aware. The “big picture” of an organization’s actual structure can be then be constructed from these verifiable facts.
It turns out that these “company-communities” are useful beyond just creating orgcharts, and that’s where the real fun begins.
We’re working hard to get the site ready for a private beta this spring. Meanwhile, you can follow our progress and participate in the conversation here.
Let us know what you think!
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