1. Marriage of Social Network and Online Collaboration Hailin Yang Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science hy2268@columbia.edu

2. It’s all about information Increasingly Competitive World; How Competitive? First comes a story. and Facebook.

3. It’s all about information Increasingly Competitive World; How Competitive? First comes a story. In the morning, before u leave home, u wanna know the weather, so using your iPhone u get access to the internet, know the weather condition, while, bad luck it’s raining in the afternoon, not necessarily go out to have dinner, instead, let’s order online, so u view friends’ recent recommendations for dinner deliveries and select one restaurant with the highest rate. As to the afternoon football training, let’s move indoor, so as the team leader, u broadcast this change to your teammates. Really cool hah! Facilitate our lives.

4. It’s all about information It is all about the information!!! In Daily life Budget, you can easily make a list of the toughest difficulties u are facing; Shopping, Traveling, Housing, Education Besides weather broadcasting, eating, and event organization, we want to know which business school best suit our needs, so we check its rating, read the users’ comment and review professors’ information either in school’s home page or by visiting Linkin.com and Facebook.

5. How Competitive? As to the other side, the weather should be broadcast as accurate as possible, posing great challenges. As to the restaurant and business school, it should increase its rating by improving its services. It’s all about information. Consumers, nowadays, not only have access to massive amount of information, but as well select accordingly based on other user’s recommendations. It’s all about information

6. Next comes the introduction of todays’ existing services: As part of my midterm paper, I introduce web services as follows, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Xing, SocialGO, Ning, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Blogger, Meetup, Wiggio, Google's LBC - local business center, Flickr, Technorati, Del.icio.us, stumbleupon, Amazon, viadeo. From my point of view, all these web services boil down to satisfying corresponding the needs of getting real time connection to friends; needs of catching the rhythm of this changing world. the needs of knowing what is cheapest comodities, the best mobile service, the nearest path to the airport and so on.

7. It’s all about information To sum up, on the one hand, over the last few millennia, humans have amassed an enormous amount of information and material that is scattered around the world. On the other hand, current web services have provided users with both effective and efficient approaches to accessing these information, selecting most valuable ones and sharing with your friends. All users want is the easiest way of getting access to the information he or she wanna know. And these web services are supposed to provide the services accordingly.

8. However, are they qualified enough?

9. Successes of Social Network Just RECALL: All users want is the easiest way of getting access to the information he or she wanna know. And these web services are supposed to provide the services accordingly. First come the stories of social network: The social networks is proved promising. It connects people; It is easy to get access to; And it has a user friendly interface.

10. It’s not enough Social networks have done a great job to meet individual’s needs, providing updated information both effectively and instantly. However, it may not be qualified enough when it comes to the corporation fields.

11. A Comparison As to the corporations, facing such a competitive modern world, it need to find the most efficient approach and employ the most beneficial resources.

12. why not make an integration?

13. Let’s do integration! Integration is built upon understanding the true needs of corporations in coping with daily confronting problems.

14. Needs of Corporations in details: External needs: The needs to grasp information on the market both dynamically and interactively. Hire the key people in a much more cost-efficient way. Gain the innovative idea across the globe instead of confining it within the enterprise. Internal needs: Manage enterprise’s internal affairs at low cost like the workflow management, financial and accounting management along with human resources management. Motivate workers’ incentives of innovation as much as possible. Next I make the analysis in a case by case manner and discuss the innovative tools for meeting these needs and related problems to it.

15. Exploring the internet

16. Meet External Needs

17. Meet Internal Needs