Social media continues its’ persistent march across the firewall and into the day-to-day lives of intranet users, but executives and employees alike are less than thrilled with the end results. In fact, the initial overall rating on internal employee-only social …
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Social media tools on the corporate intranet (intranet 2.0) became mainstream nearly two years ago.Ð’Â Preliminary results from The Social Intranet Survey (open now, prepared by Prescient Digital Media and sponsored by IABC) show that about two-thirds of organizations have …
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 …
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 …
Last year at this time, I first defined “social intranet” in a white paper,Ð’Â The Social Intranet: An intranet that features multiple social media tools for most or all employees to use as collaboration vehicles for sharing knowledge with other …
Blogging is more than popular, it’s revolutionary. Blogging has turned ordinary Joe and Janes into celebrated authors, and celebrities. However, for every Arianna Huffington, there are millions of Joes and Janes that have contributed one or two posts and subsequently …
The vast majority of organizations that have implemented social media tools on their intranet (intranet 2.0 tools) have done so at little or no cost (or simply activated bundled tools that came with SharePoint or another CMS or portal solution). …
Intranet 2.0 is cheap. It's so cheap that small organizations, non-profits, miserly Fortune 500 types, and even cash-strapped communications departments can afford it. The results may not always be spectacular, but the cost of entry is rather cheap. Final …
