Social Glass

Back when I first became passionate about Enterprise 2.0 its most attractive aspect was transparency. For a while I naively devalued corporate content security in exchange for an altruistic system of openness and sharing. I’ve since come to value security, and I understand that there are very solid reasons for maintaining content access control.

I’ve recently come back from a weekend holiday to Croatia (picture on the left) where I had time to reminisce and remember what it felt like to seek transparency, tear down borders, and open up. That all within the enterprise wouldn’t abuse this trust we’d placed in them with our Enterprise 2.0 system. I’m glad to see companies like Powerset are embracing transparency and changing the ways in which they communicate with the market. Transparency manifests integrity. It shows that the public face is not just a facade, that there’s depth and something of substance underneath the covers. Amen.