What would it look like if the rapidly-evolving social world of Web 2.0 collided with the sterile and static corporate Intranet? What would happen if information flowed from the outside in, instead of inside out?

Those are the questions at the heart of an interesting experiment unfolding at global consulting firm Capgemini.

A few years ago, in response to disruptive changes in its operating environment, Capgemini began experimenting with Yammer, a private and secure enterprise social network that allows employees to hold conversations, read posts, and actively collaborate with their co-workers in real-time. Chief Technology Officer Andy Mulholland says that activity is feeding the "collective consciousness of the 20,000 people who subscribe to Yammer internally."

Source: www.managementexchange.com Posted by admin 213 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes ago

The intranet, every internal communicators dream. With the rise of the intranet in the past 10 to 15 years we were in communicators heaven. Finally our news messages could reach every employee. And with a single point of entry, we could finally make all important information available to every single employee in the world!

WWell, those of you involved in the intranet know what happened. Intranets are often rated 5 or 6 out of 10 in employee surveys, news messages are not read by the majority of the employees, and let's face it. How difficult can it be to find anything in the ever expanding intranets of major organizations?

Source: corporateinternal.blogspot.com Posted by support 513 days, 13 hours, 19 minutes ago

How far should organizations go in letting people pick and choose what they want to see and do on the intranet?

A participant in one of my global intranet workshops recently said, “There’s no point in saying we have mandatory global content that everyone must see. It’s not by putting it on the home page that will make them read it. They’re either interested or they aren’t.” The person speaking is in charge of internal communication in a large global company. ....

Source: netjmc.com Posted by bee 571 days, 3 hours, 16 minutes ago

We seem to spend a lot of time and money on learning to understand Enterprise 2.0 Adoption Patterns to help make things easier and more intuitive for employees. It’s great when the strategy behind an Enterprise 2.0 Solution includes design and development elements that help employees connect to things and each other. These elements should have the employee feeling like the system can read their mind. This type of platform behavior does require a little effort. We already see these type of platform behaviors in the public space.

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Source: webtechman.com Posted by bee 643 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes ago

This future principle explores where intranets should be heading. Previous principles include act proactively, not just reactively, provide universal access and it’s more than the intranet. They support two “future scenarios”: starting a new job and driving the engine of change.

Up to this point, the central focus of intranets has been content. How to write it, how to publish it, how to maintain it and keep it up to date. This matches the intranet’s role as a publishing platform, and an internal website.

*Intranets in 2015 will put people at the centre, supported by content, tools and collaboration. *

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by bee 662 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes ago