To be successful on the intranet, social media (intranet 2.0) cannot work in isolation; successful social computing requires effective integration and change management. In the early days of social computing on the IBM intranet Big Blue built their own standalone …
SharePoint offers so many services, so many bells and whistles, it is a mile wide… but only an inch deep (possibly a foot deep). SharePoint is such an effective, all-encompassing, basic solution for so many challenges and opportunities that the …
Social media is now present on just about every big and medium-size corporate intranet. Though most deployments are minimal, if not pure pilots, and are usually not done with much planning or change management. It’s no surprise then that most …
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Luddites are frequently overused as consummate examples when contrasting technophobes of the past with those of today. I prefer more timely and recent comparisons than those textile artisans of the early 1800s because there there are more obvious and laughable, …
As important as the intranet has become, it will never replace face-to-face communications. Building the bridge between the two is social communications. Effective employee communications requires an integrated strategy with an effective arsenal of communication vehicles and tactics – and …
Social media on the intranet (Intranet 2.0) is not a fad, or a passing trend that will fade away. Despite the curmudgeonly calls of the greying Luddites it’s not just here to stay, it’s breaking through the firewall with increasing …
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“Intranet managers are forming large communities using external social media, getting support from peers around the world and gaining visibility for their roles and work,” says Jane McConnell in her annual Global Intranet Trends (2010) report. In fact, this growing …
Two years ago, the social intranet did not exist. Social media tools on the intranet (intranet 2.0) have existed for a number of years, in fact, discussion groups and instant messaging first appeared on intranets in the late 1990s. A …
Blink and you will miss it. Waiver and your competition will beat you.The competition is using social media as a competitive advantage; in fact, the vast majority of organizations (of all sizes) are somewhere between advanced use, and piloting or …
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