How can businesses use social networking to support collaboration?

Networks can support collaboration by identifying the best people (inside the company and in other companies)to collaborate on projects.Furthermore,networking can accelerate the development of teams by helping team members get to know one another and identify individual areas of expertise.Meeting and seminar participants can use social networks to meet before an event takes place and to maintain relationships after the event is over.Finally,social networks can help companies find pockets of knowledge and expertise within the organization and share information organization-wide.