Lowrider Librarian

Organizational Communication Infrastructure for Innovation and Progress by Max Macias 11/08 At large organizations, Web 2.0 is being used in internal blogs or social networks. These perform the very useful functions of keeping far-flung employees, teams, and divisions in touch, sharing best practices and other useful information, and serving as a way to train. Organizations are beginning to see the value of these arrangements for more formalized training, as well as informal companywide communications (HR Focus, 2007). One of the requirements for an efficient (profitable?) organization is effective communication. With the influx of information today, new forms of communication are required for organizations. Most contemporary associations I have encountered have late 20 th century forms of communication based on an hierarchical system (I will be kind) from the 19 th century. Today one communicates in a variety of ways based on new tools for communicatio...