Digital Sabrina

Every once in a while, dear TMS would pop by and drops me a message asking me to read a particular article, which usually involves the whole “new media” thingy that everyone is going crazy over.

The topic for the day:

“Should SMBs join Web 2.0 fray?” by Lynn Tan, ZDNet Asia. Published on Wednesday, April 30, 2008.

As explained by Lynn Tan, a freelance IT writer based in Singapore, the past year has been a banner year for social networks as the popularity of sites such as Facebook, Second Life and YouTube, soared and large companies around the world including IBM and Cisco, scurried to join the fray.

Now, with the phenomenon showing no signs of abating, the questions goes down to - should small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) in Asia jump on the bandwagon to tap the potential of these Web 2.0 tools? (Or at least that’s what they think.)

Apparently, the answer is yes according to Steve Hodgkinson, research director at analyst company Ovum.

He said this, she said that, and so on so forth…

If you want to “read it all” - click here.

Based on this article, it’s enough to say that SMBs should join the Web 2.0 fray. But even though they should, can they?

SMBs’ knows that Web 2.0 tools are available for them to use, but well… If you haven’t truly noticed, quite a handful just don’t know how to use it?

Ah well…

Just a side note. A particular remark kinda caught my attention:

companies that ban access to social networking sites during in the office were “overreacting”.

You can say that a million times over.

Remember I mentioned once, long long ago, my ex-company blocked my blog?

To be honest, I’m still quite displeased about the whole incident.

I can understand that they don’t want distractions during working hours. But, instead of blocking Facebook, Friendster and so on so forth, which are clearly more distracting. They came up with the idea that my blog and local blog syndicates (like Ping.sg) should be blocked instead?

It really didn’t make much sense. So is this side note.