You’ve read the countless articles about social media transforming the consumer landscape.  You’ve read 36 articles in the past week about Google Plus alone.  It’s all great stuff and you don’t need convincing that social media is a powerful tool that’s here to stay.

Social Media in the Workplace

But what about at work? Are you allowed or encouraged to check Facebook at the office?  Do you utilize wikis or other collaborative tools that reflect the real-time nature of the social Web?  If you do, or if you have any good examples of other organizations that embrace social practices within the enterprise, we need your help.

Over the coming months, we’re going to be creating, The Future of Work Project (FOW), a series of 12 video interviews and blog posts exploring how transparency and openness is redefining the workplace. We’re co-creating the series with John Havens, who recently wrote about Rypple in his Mashable article, Why Social Accountability Will Be the New Currency of the Web, and we’ll explore questions like:

• What companies are using social media internally?
• How are they using social media with their employees?  And how is it helping?
• How are HR or other departments within the enterprise justifying the use of social media?
• Do employees get more work done when they can utilize social media tools?  Why or why not?
• Will younger workers want to work at an organization that doesn’t embrace real-time, collaborative tools?

We Want to Hear from You

So what do you think?  Send us your stories, referrals or thoughts in the comments section below.  Or email them to nick.stein@rypple.com. Whether or not we end up using your thoughts as the basis for an interview, we’d like to post your thoughts on our blog to help other readers.  And stay tuned!