It’s tough to quantify Return on Investment (ROI) online. It makes sense that organizations need to justify marketing expenditures on activities or investments that help to meet their business objectives. For many, business decisions come down to the basic Biz101 equation of:

ROI = (Gain from Investment – Cost of Investment) / Cost of Investment

Without it, budget allocation would simply be an irrationally emotive decision based on the whims of its spender.

Source: digitalword.com Posted by bee 623 days, 3 hours, 2 minutes ago

One of the most common tools beside blogs in the development of an Enterprise 2.0- Environment are wikis.

History & Definition

The term wiki originally comes from the Hawaiian word “wiki wiki”, which simply means fast. In 1995 Ward Cunningham made it possible through the development of wikis to create and edit websites, one of the basic principles of the World Wide Web. Wikis allow the easy creation and editing of interlinked web pages using a simple text editor. They are often used to create col...

Source: milosvujnovic.blogspot.com Posted by enterprisezweinull 628 days, 22 hours, 8 minutes ago

We know teams are the way to get things done, but it’s hard to collaborate when we’re geographically dispersed. Working together at a distance seems to cry out for technology, but which one? I thought I’d ask a bunch of smart IT guys about it. After all, they have teams trying to get work done too. Here’s some of what I heard from the experts at the LinkedIn group, CIOs.com: Chief Information Officer Network

E-mail is still the default collaboration tool -- it’s familiar and effective to a point. It becomes unwieldy quickly, however, when more than a couple of people are involved. How often have you struggled to make sense of a long email thread with non-chronological messages crossing each other? When you use e-mail to send documents for comment, keeping track of versions gets crazy quickly. That’s when you say there must be a better solution. Naturally, Microsoft and Google appear, as if by magic, each with their own supporters...

Source: leanreflect.blogspot.com Posted by bee 630 days, 23 hours, 23 minutes ago

The number of social media tools available to organizations today can be overwhelming. With your organization’s efficiency and collaboration on the line, it’s important to pick the right one. Despite their potential impact, the best social media tools are seldom chosen by organizations looking to support their unique intranet 2.0 strategies.

Social media on the intranet (Intranet 2.0) is present on about half of all intranets. Once a nice-to-have or future wish, Intranet 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and other vehicles have become mainstream.

Despite the low cost of entry, most Intranet 2.0 tools are merely experiments, pilots or limited to a very small audience. Of the organizations that have adopted intranet 2.0, only 25% of them have done so enterprise-wide (see the results of Prescient’s Intranet 2.0 Global Survey I...

Source: www.prescientdigital.com Posted by bee 639 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes ago