Do employees want to blog?
If you build it, will they blog? For the most part, it is a moot point: employees don’t want to blog. There are always keeners and exceptions to the rule, but employees have no interest in blogging. Even at IBM, …
If you build it, will they blog? For the most part, it is a moot point: employees don’t want to blog. There are always keeners and exceptions to the rule, but employees have no interest in blogging. Even at IBM, …
Social media tools (web / intranet 2.0) are so simple and inexpensive to deploy that it’s incredibly easy to be lulled into complacency until your initiative begins to fail. Â Often, failure is simply a lack of use or adoption by …
The founder and President of Prescient Digital Media, Toby is an internationally recognized and acclaimed expert in the areas of enterprise technology, intranets, digital workplace, and social media. A specialist in intranet planning, governance, and measurement, Toby has led his …
Some timely articles on the intranet consulting profession:  READ: 10 things to ask your intranet consultant Avoiding dangerous intranet consultants How to hire an intranet consultant Hiring an intranet consultant or manager  Key Responsibilities of An Intranet Consultant: …
I bet you thought I was going to tell you what technology to buy (or download for free) to power your intranet 2.0? I wouldn’t know where to begin… There are now thousands of social media technology solutions in the …
Is your intranet ‘social’? Or is it antiquated? Social media on the intranet (Intranet 2.0) are present on about half of all intranets (in the Western World). Once a nice-to-have or a future wish, Intranet 2.0 tools such as …
In convening focus groups for a government health portal we (Prescient Digital Media) we built (and would eventually win a Webby Award for) I discovered a few universal truths about websites, one of which we all have to keep learning …
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1- SharePoint will continue to dominate All hail the king, SharePoint. SharePoint has become the single biggest, most pervasive intranet platform of all time (present in 50 – 60% of all medium to large-size organizations). While SharePoint is still …
Employees may waste too much time on the intranet; social media wastes time; the Internet is a productivity drain. These are common refrains and concerns expressed by many executives, albeit the less educated ones, generally of an older generation, nearing …
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