Paisano, that’s his name, over at the thepaisano wrote a great post about sneaking social into enterprise. In his blog Paisano details how he is a systems administrator and he has to block many of the social sites that he finds enjoyable. Paisano laments on the dull drums of creating SOP’s for his company but soon begins talking about using social media and web 2.0 as tools instead of distractions.

Paisano talks about using practices he learned in his blogging, tagging and hyper linking, to create more fluid online documents for his fellow employees. He is able to create interactive documents that allow his workmates to access forms and files with speed. This is a simple enough move and not that social, but any time you really help someone accomplish a task faster it is quite rewarding.

Paisano’s real epiphany came when he created a meeting for his coworkers on Zoho so they could all collaborate on a document at the same time. I believe this technique, of demonstrating the power of online collaboration and social networking, is the best tool for winning people over. Paisano boasts that they were able to complete work that would have taken days in almost no time.

I had a similar experience while I worked at a PR firm where we had a shared document with a client and hashed through a press release in 5 minutes; verses the several hours would have normally taken.

This got me thinking, what other social tools could I use to help in the business world? Sure I could chat through a messenger client around the office instead of emailing, but could I twitter with my office on ideas? I could create a shared document on Google documents, but could we start editing them from our mobiles? Could brainstorming sessions be podcasted so our other offices could download them and listen when they had time?

Do any of you out there have any good tricks for using social media or web 2.o to help you in your professional life? I am always looking to stream line things around the office.