Social Media - Google Evaluation

Google Social Media Digital Architecture Use Case

Communities in Google+

A community was created to test the use of a community to interact with the suppliers and advisory members. The community concepts is not widely adopted throughout the industry.

The community concept is well done from a visual perspective.
The community concept is fairly straightforward, with the only exception being the ability to maintain privacy and integrity of the information.  

Privacy set to "Private" 

Post set to "a named user"

Each day following, the community would have new universities following the Private Community.  If private these followers would not be able to associate themselves with the community. 

Any government and most companies in general need a certain degree of privacy and assurance of the providers intent to respect the settings in the community.  Having many places to mark private isn't helpful, nor does it help to have settings that are being ignored.  It can place a legal liability on a person who's not aware.

Far too many private post and do not share outside a circle have been available to people and parties who SHOULD NOT be able to see under any circumstances.  

Trust 

A user and person promoting the use of Google or Google+ will be difficult to support without some better practices around what's important to the audience I am hoping to engage in the platform.  

Pages in Google+

Pages are designed for publishing or push to an audience-not unlike Facebook pages.

Google Drive

Using Google Drive for the purpose of managing records for any public or private sector audience would be against most recognized best practices.

The challenge similar to the community issue with far more aggressive results, changes to documents which are not tracked yet clearly made against protected versions stored offline.  

The applications in Google Drive are broadly viewed and therefore any privacy on the drive is not managed as an application is a content provider and managed as a different entity. 

Google Applications in Google Drive

Several applications were identified and tested using the requirements from the ICT State Treasury for the clients benefit.  The intent was to discovery or prove viability around proposed cloud solutions. 

Cacoo - Visio style application

The applications in Google Drive are broadly viewed and therefore any privacy on the drive is not managed as an application is a content provider and managed as a different entity.  

Public Cloud - Candidate

Private Sector

A private sector use, "in push to"
Assuming public availability of content without regard to privacy or confidentiality.
(no reasonable expectation of privacy)
This solution may work well for small and medium businesses.

Public Sector

A Public Sector use, "in push to"
Assuming public availability of content without regard to privacy or confidentiality (factoring/expecting public without any reasonable expectations of privacy).  

Public clouds are as stated intended for public use, the public use in a users perspective includes the ability to make decisions about privacy if necessary.  In current practice the decisions about privacy are not in place and not mature enough for any public or private use.  Assumptions that no reasonable expectation of privacy exist.