I'm listening to a podcast on how social media tools like slack and how
they can be a boon for corporate productivity because they are "so new
and let us talk together and read all old messages and identify leaders."


I'm glad the "millennials" have discovered that they can talk to
each other on the internet. I'm only bothered by this idea that is
all revolutionary and news. These tools haven't invented internet
communication. They don't even make it easier. Obviously, they never
heard of this little project called Linux that was created on usenet,
a totally functional platform that is still in use today. These new
tools offer nothing new and to here Harvard professors gush over them
just reminds me that despite education, the best education is experience.


https://www.acast.com/ideacast/618-make-tools-like-slack-work-for-your-company


618: Make Tools Like Slack Work for Your Company

Tsedal Neeley, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Paul Leonardi,
a management professor at UC Santa Barbara, talk about the potential
that applications such as Slack, Yammer, and Microsoft Teams have for
strengthening employee collaboration, productivity, and organizational
culture. They discuss their research showing how effective these tools
can be and warn about common traps companies face when they implement
them. Neeley and Leonardi are co-authors of the article "What Managers
Need to Know About Social Tools" in the November-December 2017 issue of
Harvard Business Review.


One more thing about this. I originally heard this in "stitcher". Sticher,
however, has devoted considerable effort to code the webpage and aps
so that I couldn't cut and paste the write up in order to research
the original podcast. This is just another example of how all these
applications, regardless of how much lack of initiation they have, focus
on two things: Marketing and Mindshare to young people who are frankly
gullible, and then locking them into a platform so that can't integrate
it with anything else, making them dependent of such technology to the
point where they can not imagine how they can conduct there day to day
business without being locked into a dependent relationship with an
entity that abuses them.