Best Facebook Apps for the Office
When you think about Facebook applications, the first thing that comes to mind might be those obnoxious Vampire and Zombie applications where friends keep "biting you." Or maybe it's the Movie Compatibility Quiz, which asks you about an awful lot of Adam Sandler films and nothing about the films you might actually like.
Now, those sorts of apps could waste a lot of time when you're at work, and could even get you fired.
What you may not know is that some Facebook widgets are actually useful and might even make you more productive at the office (or while on a business trip). In fact, an increasing number of business users are taking advantage of these productivity programs to stay in contact with coworkers and associates, as well as share information, and collaborate. CIO Magazine has trolled through the unorganized mess that is the Facebook application directory and found its Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users (widgets is the term people use for these applications you can add to your Facebook page).
CIO magazine's favorites include the Sticky Notes application, which mimics pinning a Post-It to your page. That rather obious app may seem short on usefulness -- and long on desktop clutteriness -- but others seem like real productivity-machines. Wikimono, for example, allows you to collaborate with other Facebook users on a Wiki (a user-generated online encyclopedia) that can even contain embedded video or images.
Our favorite app on the list is the My LinkedIn Profile widget, which is simply a badge that takes you from Facebook, to the eponymous professional networking site. CIO mag thinks Facebook apps can be useful... but not useful enough to keep it from leading you away from the site loaded with drunken college girls as quickly as possible.
From CIO
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Dave @ Nov 18th 2007 9:00PM
Hi Terrence,
I recently launched a collaborative project management application on Facebook called MyOffice. It's useful for getting several people on the same page for a particular (or multiple) projects, with calendaring, to-do lists, discussion boards, and a place to upload files. It can be found here:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=20196811016
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