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 …
March 29, 2011 (Free webinar) Social Media and Internal Communications: Reap the Rewards, Reduce the Risk is a free webinar and it’s focused on solving the social media challenge. Social media has taken our personal lives by storm, but in …
“It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead,” quips Miracle Max in the famed bedtime story-come-movie, The Princess Bride. “There’s a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead. Now, mostly dead: he’s slightly alive.” The …
“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 …
Portal or CMS? Social media or none? Commercial or open-source? What is the best technology for your intranet? Choosing the right technology for your intranet is difficult, to say the least. In fact, it can be downright daunting without help …
SharePoint is the best intranet for some, but not all. Portal solutions make sense for a very few organization, but a minority. Content management systems are often the best solution for those intranets that are primarily focused on communications and …
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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Social media tools (intranet 2.0 tools) are exploding in popularity: the Intranet 2.0 Global Study has found that 87% of organizations have at least one social media tool on the intranet. The most popular tool: blogs (present on 55% of …
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