Today’s guest post is by Allen Mireles. 

Recently I posted about the explosion of growth we’re seeing in social networks.

And how those of us who’ve learned to use the social web are called on to be patient–with the scores of people still trying to figure it all out.

Even when they’re being annoying because they don’t know any better.

I was thinking of the familiar usages of the social web.

Blogging, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube.

I hadn’t given much thought to challenges faced by corporations and organizations as they develop internal social strategies and tools to help achieve business objectives.

Then a friend tweeted me about my post and pointed out the similarity between what I described and what he had experienced as a consultant: Working in Enterprise 2.0 settings with boatloads of newbies struggling to get the hang of the internal social systems they were supposed to be using. (more…)