I have always thought that Facebook could be a useful way to communicate between an organizations hierarchy and its lower level employees. The problem arises with concerns about privacy. Your Facebook profile is out there for the world to see, but of course there are people that you don’t want to allow access to that window into your life. The idea of using Facebook as a communication tool is valid. However, I would never want to be friends with my current boss. Luckily there are other avenues that are more for a professional setting.
One of my favorite and most useful sites that I have found is Dropbox.com. “Dropbox, a free service that lets people bring their documents, photos and videos everywhere and share them easily. More than 45 million people already depend on Dropbox” (http://www.dropbox.com/press/20111027). One of the companies I work for uses drop box to share every document needed to run and organize a branch of the business from anywhere. Our Dropbox contains documents, contracts, tutorials, pictures and training materials. I have found it incredibly useful to have all of that information at my fingertips. Dropbox saves a lot of the hassle of forwarding and sharing documents and provides more privacy than using Gmail. Dropbox is easy to use and if you have an iPad, you can carry your whole document library wherever you go.
Dropbox was created by Drew Houston. He has an interesting story. Houston created one of the fastest growing websites out there. When the website first started gaining popularity, it caught the attention of Steve Jobs who offered to buy the website for an obscene amount of money. I admire Houston for not selling out. He was determined to create a large business out of Dropbox. Dropbox has around 50 million users and another joins every second. (http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/)
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