Social media policy is usually not perceived as an exciting topic, yet at this stage of the industry nothing could be further from the truth.

It should now be considered a primary enabler as enterprises develop — or update — their social business strategies. Because of this perception, one of the more powerful and transformative tools in the social business arsenal will be left to languish unmodernized by many, making the organization do too much work, assume too much downside, and ignore important upsides.

Source: www.dachisgroup.com Posted by support 242 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes ago

Almost every company these days wants to create a program, a process, an intervention or an initiative that creates employee engagement.  

It starts with the company paying someone for a “scientifically designed and vetted” survey instrument that gives management a “score” that can be influenced. The score, usually somewhere between 1 and 5, or 1 and 10 – or even 1 and 100 – tells management where on a finite engagement continuum their employees sit.

Obviously, when given a scale of engagement, human nature kicks in and you want to get to the highest score (whether that be 5, 10, or 100.) Management has its eye on the prize – total employee engagement (so we’ve got that going for us.)

Ring the bell, drop the balloons and confetti and pat each other on the back. You’ve arrived.

Let me ask this stupid question though...

Source: www.fistfuloftalent.com Posted by support 496 days, 16 hours, 41 minutes ago

When organizations discuss the business value of social networking, the conversation invariably includes a discussion on employee profiles.

Strategists, sponsors, champions, and management teams often (not always but frequently) make the assumption that employees will create and maintain their own profiles. These profiles will include rich information not captured elsewhere in corporate systems. Rich employee profile data that is broadly accessible by co-workers will enable the organization to improve its ability to locate experts, discovery new sources of talent, connect people across the globe working on similar business activities, and enable better community-building.

While these benefits are all possible, I consistently find that profiles are a common adoption hurdle faced by project teams across virtually all industry sectors.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by bee 579 days, 4 hours, 7 minutes ago

I love to watch themes emerge. As I reflect back on my experience at the HR Technology conference, two themes seemed to be recurrent in almost every session I attended and in many of the conversations I participated in. From the opening keynote with Tamara Erickson, the social learning session, the blogger insight panel, and the closing keynote with Mark Effron, the messages were:

• Treat employees like adults
• Simplify

Today, Web 2.0 technologies are radically changing how we interact and make decisions in the workplace. It’s changing the way we innovate by improving the way we generate, capture, and share knowledge with colleagues. And, although personal use of technology seems to be where the most growth is occurring, we will begin to see use in the workplace more and more.

Source: hrringleader.com Posted by bee 593 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes ago

These days your intranet users are employees who are active with Facebook, YouTube, iTunes and their smart phones. They are more sophisticated and savvy. This doesn’t mean you need to rush out and pay big bucks for an iTunes app on the intranet, but you should be taking a close look at how your intranet provides value to employees. It’s not all about the design, but a few key considerations can go a long way in maximizing the use of your intranet site.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 670 days, 3 hours, 51 minutes ago

So the true KISS equation is: social intranet + strong planning and guidelines = impressive value for the dollar. Let’s start with the benefits.

Benefits of a Social Intranet

1. Improved knowledge sharing = better problem solving/more efficient employees

2. Improved communications = better informed employees

3. Increased employee engagement = more productive employees

More: three points about Common concerns about Social Intranets ...

Source: www.prescientdigital.com Posted by support 719 days, 15 hours, 43 minutes ago

Getting ready for the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, June 14- 17, I've been thinking about the value of the online collaboration tools most of us are beginning to embrace. My early take is that the positives are engagement, empowerment, and the potential to spur innovation. The downsides are the dangers of groupthink gone wild and the security risks of exposing valuable company data.

Here are my Enteprise 2.0 minuses

• Security, security, security
• Collaboration as a time-waster
• Enterprise 2.0 as false collaboration

Now for the positives

• Breaking through the org chart
• Better business responsiveness
• Empowerment and engagement

Source: www.informationweek.com Posted by support 729 days, 5 hours, 47 minutes ago

We know the number one reason people find your intranet superfluous to requirements; irrelevant information. The ‘news’ stories are often Company focussed (what ‘we’ need to tell ‘you’, the little people) rather than ‘people focussed’ (what ‘you’ need to know to get stuff done).

We know that if an intranet, or the content, ain’t useful then it ain’t used! But what about the secret, number two, insidious reason?

Source: kilobox.net Posted by bee 742 days, 17 hours, 11 minutes ago

The enterprise band wagon is getting big. In fact, it's more like the Enterprise 2.0 barge now. Most enterprise software that is new or has been updated in the last several years tries to lay claim to some E20 credibility. Whether in its SOA-ness, SLATES conformity, or simply its addition of some rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows, they all seem to have some E20 in there. Asking "Is it E20?" is almost like asking, "Will it blend?" The answer is always, "YES." So where is the uniqueness that sets E20 systems and strategies apart?

The answer to these questions, I believe, can be found in some emerging Enterprise 2.0 trends. The rash of recent conferences (Gilbane, Collaborate 2010, AIIM and the Web 2.0 Expo), analyst reports and punditry converge on three important trends in Enterprise 2.0:

• Users first (after all there is no E20 without them)
• Process importance (because this is where "real" work gets done)
• Ambient metrics (because this predicts what really matters)

Source: www.fiercecontentmanagement.com Posted by bee 748 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes ago

Intranets are places where someone - usually a customer, partner, or employee - signs in and then tries to do something.

Given my own experience as the user of intranets, and as someone who rebuilds broken intranets, here's my take on the current state of intranets.

Intranets, on the whole, are TERRIBLE.

Source: www.revenuejournal.com Posted by bee 754 days, 11 hours, 6 minutes ago