Tara Clark | No comments | Add a comment Last week I had the pleasure of attending The Art of Leadership conference in Vancouver, BC. With well over 1,000 professionals in attendance, I knew that this conference would be special, and it was. Sitting in the jam-packed crowd I could sense the excitement in the air for the event to begin. The bios of the six speakers were very enticing and the host, Ron Tite, did a fantastic job keeping us entertained during the short breaks between presentations. After ea...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 44 days, 22 hours, 34 minutes ago

Intranets have come a long way since their early days as vehicles for official top-down communication and controlled content. The intranet of 2012 is a multi-faceted ‘digital workplace’ where sharing is prevalent:

• Social features allow employees to connect with each other and share opinions, experiences and common interests

• Mobile access is enabling the sharing of information anywhere, anytime, not just from behind an office desk

• Collaboration tools make it possible to find and share knowledge faster,...

Source: jboye.com Posted by admin 52 days, 21 hours, 7 minutes ago

So, you’re part of the implementation team of a new tech rollout and your users aren’t using the new thing. Could it be your fault? Well, I’m going to say… Yes. Probably….

Of course I can’t know for certain, as I don’t know you or your project. But in my experience, many people involved in tech implementations blame the users when things don’t work out, when they really needn’t look any further than themselves.

I’m not going to launch into a long list of reasons why people don’t adopt new tech systems. Long posts really aren’t my style, plus the variables are endless. But I will say that to get to the bottom of a lack of user engagement or adoption, you have to listen to the users...

Source: www.soozihl.com Posted by SooziHL 55 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes ago

Social tools are changing not only the way that professionals are working and learning but also the way that organisations are transforming into social businesses.

In the new connected workplace, current training, e-learning or blended learning services, which take a top-down, ”command and control” approach to organising and managing “learning” will not be appropriate to support these new ways of working and learning. What will be required is a completely new range of services – which we might call non-training services – that are focused on supporting continuous performance improvement and learning in the workflow as people do their jobs.

Source: socialenterprisetoday.com Posted by admin 56 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes ago

Carolyn Douglas | No comments | Add a comment I  read an excellent article by Laurie Buczek on her “Beyond the Cube” blog. The article is linked below in case you have not yet read it. Laurie talks about the struggles of social adoption within the enterprise, and when I finished it, I had to sit for a few minutes to absorb it. She is so right. Social intranets are still struggling with going mainstream. We see it all the time being a vendor of social intranet software. Customers and prospects mostly an...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 63 days, 23 hours, 51 minutes ago

Collaboration – we all do it off-line and through email and many people want it on their Intranet, but for many it seems an impossible task. We all know that filling in profile pages with information, showing people’s pictures and getting senior management involved are vital to getting the cogs of the collaboration machine working, but how does this happen?

Here are some ways you can encourage the positive interactions with your intranet that create a collaboration rich on-line environment. Some of these ideas cross over each other, or support each other, the idea being that if one suggestion didn’t work another similar one might. Not all these suggestions may be for you or your company culture, but some will be, try all that work, tweak them to fit your organisation, invent new ones, but most importantly try something and keep trying, it’s ultimately the only way to succeed.

Source: www.interact-intranet.com Posted by InteractIntranet 65 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes ago

Have you ever thought about the impact of social media on your workforce? Ron Thomas from the Human Capital League took to his blog to share his thoughts on the benefit of aligning your corporate culture with social media. In the post, Ron says that that “Culture defines an organization, and to maintain that level of connectiveness requires communication and constant reinforcement. Social media offers the opportunity to communicate and collaborate with and among employees, former employees, customers (bo...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 70 days, 23 hours, 14 minutes ago

OK, we’ve all thought it from time to time. It would be so much easier to launch a new tech project if our users weren’t so far behind us. They moan about change, they don’t listen when they’re being trained, they need us to tell them everything 10 times before it sinks in…. Sound familiar? It’s so hard to launch something under these conditions isn’t it?

If you could only get rid of all your users….

Source: www.soozihl.com Posted by SooziHL 78 days, 4 hours, 40 minutes ago

Call your new intranet ‘SharePoint’ and your project is doomed from the start.

I’ve seen all sorts of reasons and a million blog posts on this topic, but I’m going to focus on just two:

1. People will probably have heard of SharePoint before. They might have used it in their previous jobs. You have no control over their experiences, but in launching ‘SharePoint’ you’re going to be stuck with their expectations.

And the reality is that a lot of SharePoint implementations that have been done over the past 10 years were done badly. In many organisations, the mention of ‘SharePoint’ will be met with a roll of the eyes and a rant about lost documents.

Don’t make life hard for yourself by bringing years of other people’s mistakes into your project.

1. Internal systems need to be marketed to the organisation in the same way as external products need to be marketed to customers. The people in your organisation are your customers.

So give it a name and a brand – something that fits in with your organisation; something that people will identify with. Hold a competition to suggest a name if you like.

However you go about it, make an effort to call it something. But FFS, just don’t call it SharePoint!

Source: www.soozihl.com Posted by SooziHL 80 days, 1 hour, 56 minutes ago

As business increasingly becomes either knowledge-or service-based, constant communication is necessary for employees to collaborate. Social platforms, or intranets, have emerged as the leading technology for information sharing at companies. Social intranets apply the cross-communication capability familiar to us from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to internal communication and collaboration platforms.

"Social intranets encourage wide authorship and involvement among workers," says Chris McGrath, co-founder and vice-president, sales and marketing, for ThoughtFarmer, a social intranet supplier.

Source: www.vancouversun.com Posted by admin 86 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes ago