Why Not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX8sW8xZ0rk Too many IT professionals dismiss the unproven in the name of defending enterprise integrity. Would an IT manager welcome Facebook in the workplace?

Consider a company that has encouraged employees to spend one hour each Friday on their Facebook profiles, connecting with co-workers, customers, family and friends. And sometime later, the company is actually going much further than that, replacing its corporate intranet with Facebook as a front end linked to a low-cost content management system behind the firewall. Then consider the fact that Facebook provides an engaging experience, it’s free, it’s easy to write custom apps on top of it, and you can set up both private and public groups.

Why not?