ESRI and Facebook?
The ESRI UC conference blog is now on Facebook. There's a long list of comments about this running on James Fee. Most think its a strange move by ESRI, me included. Many corporate sites block Facebook. So your stuck doing work from home. Plus not everyone wants to mix their professional online with personal online lives.
Not being a Facebook user nor much of a social networking enthusist, I'm still trying to figure out the advantage of doing this. My guess is it helps ESRI better track who's reading their info (part of the group), but it seems to do it at a heavy price. I've thought about creating a EWUG group on LinkedIn, but didn't see a real advantage to it (is there now, and if so would I be better off doing it on Facebook now?)
Anyone know if the other official ESRI blogs are headed down the same route? If not, why is the UC blog different?
posted by EWUG @ 6:51 PM
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I ran across this the other day.
http://www.geonetworx.com/home.php
I have signed up for an account, but not gone in to check it out much after that.
I have recently been introduced to facebook and do like it. It isn't blocked here, but it is "quota time". I don't see the sense in the conference blog being there either. There are ways of creating friend lists for which you can customize the level of access, but I don't think that it is sophisticated enough to completely separate professional and personal.
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