Enterprise Social Media Becomes a Necessity (Intranet 2.0)

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 planning the deployment of enterprise or intranet 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and even employee networking tools. If your organization is not using social media to engage employees, it is risking obsolescence.

Social media tools such as blogs, wikis and other vehicles, are common place: enterprise 2.0 tools are present on 87% of organization intranets (regardless of size). Less than 10% of organizations have no interest and no plans for implementing at least one social media tool on their intranet, according to the findings of the Intranet 2.0 Global Study of 525 participants, representing companies of all sizes from across the globe.

Intranet blogs, wikis, discussion forums and instant messaging are present in half of all organizations.

Keep reading “Enterprise Social Media Becomes a Necessity” (CMS Wire)

5 thoughts on “Enterprise Social Media Becomes a Necessity (Intranet 2.0)”

  1. yes! another link I can forward to everybody instead of having to talk and talk… 🙂

  2. With so much of this available via open source projects like wordpress or status.net there is no reason why a company should not being using social media on their Intranet.

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  5. Whether is it Facebook, Bebo, MySpace or LinkedIn, socialnetworks are here to stay and businesses must adapt to interacing with their customers in a social environment.

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