Last week, we shared 5 things you didn’t know your intranet can do, but we couldn’t stop there! We decided to expand on the previous post so we can provide you with 5 MORE intranet  tips:

Do you have an employee with great intranet design skills, but they can’t have full administrative access to make creative changes to your intranet?

  The Site Designer function allows you to assign elevated rights to an employee. This way, they have access to the Site Design tab where they can create and choose...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 191 days, 8 hours, 5 minutes ago

The technology adoption lifecycle is a usable model to gain understanding into the adoption process of a new technology or product within a certain population or culture, such as an organization.

What it doesn’t tell us, however, is what value it creates as a result of technology adoption. To understand that, we need to look at how the use of a new technology or product affects the ability to perform tasks and achieve goals.

The key question is not if people have adopted a certain technology, but rather how they are using it and how new and improved practices are being adopted. For an organization that seeks to improve its operations and management, the adoption of a certain technology isn’t really interesting unless it creates value.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by CreatingTheExperience 320 days, 1 hour, 39 minutes ago

Engaging with users and changing with ROI in mind Every year Intranets become more important to corporations and with the rise of familiar social networking tools in 2010 this year was no different.  I don’t know of any published statistics but I bet Corporate Intranets were likely accessed more in 2010 then they were in 2009.  However just because a site was accessed frequently doesn’t mean those visits...

Source: www.vialect.com Posted by noodle 417 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago

GM has researchers from Asia to Detroit to Palo Alto that have been using Socialtext to share expertise and ideas about what’s going to be next big breakthrough in the automotive industry. Recently, I sat down with John Suh, a staff researcher at GM who has been helping drive the effort.

In this video, he breaks down how social software has facilitated more open communication between researchers at GM, and what benefits he’s seeing internally as a result.

Source: www.socialtext.com Posted by bee 466 days, 3 hours, 27 minutes ago

There’s been a great discussion recently amongst The 2.0 Adoption Council crew on what we’re trying to achieve and the role of traditional corporate and internal comms. What more than a few members have experienced in one form or another is resistance from their Comms colleagues. This has got me thinking as to what the core reasons might be and how a reconciliation of interests might be possible.

My own background is in part Comms based & so I can empathise with where the Comms teams are coming from. With this in mind it might be helpful to step back and look at where the Comms guys are coming from (and particularly internal comms, my own area). And where better than to turn to than Melcrum. I had a mail today promoting their Melcrum Black Belt Course which asked:

1. When planning your communication activities, which is more true?

   A: I focus on delivering outputs.
   B: I focus on achieving outcomes.

2. Was the completion of your last communication project:

   A: An end in itself?
   B: A means to an end?

3. When you gauge the success of a communication initiative, do you measure:

   A: Levels of awareness and satisfaction with the channels used?
   B: Attitudes, behaviours and whether business objectives were achieved?

Source: theparallaxview.com Posted by support 469 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

Today we are continuing our series on Social Software- An Enterprise Perspective with part 3, the SWOT Analysis of Micro-Blogs.

History & Definition

Noah Glass and Jack Dorsey from Odeo Inc. first began to experiment with the idea of an micro-blogging application in March 2006. In 2007 at the SXSW interactive festival twitter was first located at flat panel displays. This can be defined as the birth of twitter. Here and here you can find two impressions from the early days of twitter.

Microblog...

Source: milosvujnovic.blogspot.com Posted by enterprisezweinull 474 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes ago

Does social software adoption have you singing the blues? If so, you're not alone.

In the enterprise social software world, everyone's talking about adoption. There are breakouts on it at Enterprise 2.0. Lots of smart people are blogging about it. There's LinkedIn forum. There's even a whole Council dedicated to social software adoption.

Why is adoption such an issue?

The standard response is to blame organizational culture. Eavesdrop on adoption conversations and you'll hear things like this

• "Corporations incentivize for knowledge-hoarding."
• "People over 30 just don't get social networking."
• "Workers aren't comfortable with transparency."
• "We have a culture of email that's hard to change."

To borrow a phrase from always-quotable Dennis Howlett: What a crock.

To borrow another phrase from the also-quotable Pogo: We have met the enemy and he is us.

Source: michaeli.typepad.com Posted by support 498 days, 11 hours, 11 minutes ago

Prescient’s Intranet 2.0 Global Study has found that 87% of organizations have at least one social media tool on the intranet, but the statistics also reveal discrepancy in satisfaction, usage and measurement, challenging the teams tasked with implementing social media tools to determine where best to start.

In our complex business environment, taking action becomes challenging. Conflicting data, viewpoints and expectations raise questions that can stimulate analysis rather than activity: will we gain market share? How can we realize efficiency? Are we attracting and retaining the right talent? But in a dynamic market, stasis can lead to falling behind more agile competitors.

Source: www.prescientdigital.com Posted by support 499 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes ago

I was talking with my RHB-pal, Dave Howlett, on Facebook a few days ago about the problem with Social Media Experts. I made a point of stating how many of these so-called “experts” were quite often pushing social tools (e.g. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook) without a clear understanding on their proper use.

I ended my mini-rant with a statement that many social tool adopters were left stuck in a broadcasting mindset, leaving them wondering why they weren’t finding success. This lack of success was often leaving a bad impression on not only the toolsets being promoted, but more importantly a bad vibe on the entire consultancy process around their adoption.

Source: rlavigne42.wordpress.com Posted by bee 505 days, 14 hours, 23 minutes ago

Email was the first collaboration tool in the Intranet. Then intranet portals emerged, and they wanted to kill Email because of its lacks: instead of sending back and forth messages and documents, they are placed on a portal web-page (for example, in the news, on the forum or file cabinet).

But due to the fact that people got used to e-mail and email was also used for external communications - intranet portals failed to replace the Email as a primary workspace. Moreover, rec...

Source: www.liventerprise.com Posted by admin 512 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes ago