Making activity streams work in a social network internal to a company is much easier than getting all the companies on the public social networks to play nicely together.

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So far, we have made clear that the potential for surprise will likely increase as internal corporate social networking expands and starts to put activity streams to work.

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Although such payments may be justified as part of a social safety net, rewarding non-work and penalizing productive effort reduces jobs and economic activity.

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He said that after CSC implemented a companywide social network, the ambient awareness created by activity stream like information flows helped current processes work better.

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For example, if I happened to be the type of person who wanted a lot of social interaction at work, my career in writing (no matter how much I love the activity) would be quite a letdown.

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Today, it is possible that the internet itself can create the kind of social activity that used to take place at the water cooler, and that, as a result, creative work and interdependent work of many kinds can in fact best be done by employees in remote locations.

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