Uber blogger Steve Rubel featured a link today to this Yahoo News item from InformationWeek. It's another splendid piece by Sharon Gaudin. The headline: Younger Workers Demanding Web 2.0 Tech on the Job.

The bottom line is simply this... there's no gate, turnstile, body search, pat down, sniffer dog, X-ray machine or other security measure that will protect corporations from the viral infestation of the workplace of these new technologies. The most stunning bit of news in this report comes from a combination of things said by Dennis Moore, a general manager at SAP and Susan Feldman of IDC:

Moore... put up some IDC research numbers showing that 45% of companies have workers blogging, 43% use RSS feeds, and 35% of companies have employees using wikis.

What's interesting about that, according to Susan Feldman, VP of content technologies at IDC, is that the study also showed that IT managers and executives largely didn't know any of this was going on...

Oops! An old saying comes to mind right about now and it is for all old school corporate traditionalists: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."

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