What do around 16,000 Google employees stare at in the morning when they’ve arrived at the office? They might be looking at Moma, the name for the Google intranet.

The meaning of the name of “Moma” is a mystery even to some of the employees working on it, we heard, but Moma’s mission is prominently displayed on its footer: “OrganizeGoogle’s information and make it accessible and useful to Googlers.

A Googler, as you may know, is what Google employees call themselves (they have other nicknames for specific roles; a noogler is a new Google employee, a gaygler is a gay one, a xoogler is an ex-one, and so on).

Source: uinnoblog.co.in Posted by support 680 days, 2 hours ago

ThoughtFarmer has been working with Penn State University’s Outreach department since January 2009 when they launched their new ThoughtFarmer-powered intranet, our.outreach. Bevin Hernandez recently keynoted at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and shared some of her experiences with conference attendees, talking about some of the cultural elements and aspects of social intranets.

Source: www.thoughtfarmer.com Posted by bee 685 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes ago

It is difficult to measure the return on investment from social media. But Mark Morrell, intranet manager of BT, is prepared to hazard a guess.

"We know anecdotally it has saved a lot of time, and where we have beat competitors to a particular bid because we have been able to get information together quickly," he says. "For every £1 we spend on the intranet we believe we get £20 back."

Source: www.computerweekly.com Posted by support 698 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago

Today, BIDMC replaced its intranet with a modern, secure, content managed application (pictured above), enabling us to retire our original intranet from 1998.

It's been a joint effort of Corporate Communications and Information Systems.

The process started by gathering requirements from hundreds of stakeholders.

Source: geekdoctor.blogspot.com Posted by support 714 days, 2 hours, 59 minutes ago

Do you wonder how your intranet gets used on a daily basis? What information are users looking for? What tasks are being performed? How can you maximize the use of your intranet?

The answers to these questions can help enhance user experience and improve the usability and effectiveness of your intranet.

This week we will be introducing our ‘A Day in the Life of an Intranet’ blog series that explores how employees at the fictional West Coast Savings Credit Union interact with their intranet, the Buzz.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 725 days, 15 hours, 37 minutes ago

Mike Caldwell, Nike's global director of brand knowledge creation and sharing, credits the intranet with improving communication between Nike headquarters in Beaverton and the international offices, which account for more than 40 per cent of the company's $US6 billion in global footwear sales. That's not bad for a project that cost Nike just about $US3 million to develop, notes Caldwell, a runner himself who has cross-trained in a variety of roles ranging from sales to IT since joining the company in 1983.

Shortening the Time-to-Sneaker

Source: www.cio.com.au Posted by bee 734 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes ago

When implementing anything new in an organization, the question "What is the value?" invariably arises. When it came to demonstrating the value of Yammer, we took that question directly to our users. Like many organizations, our network growth on Yammer was grassroots and entirely word of mouth. We were nearing one thousand users when it came time to decide whether to keep Yammer going, or to pull the plug. We knew a big part of our recommendation to move forward had to show that the current population was deriving some kind of value. It was far too early to show any monetary value, but we were sure there was something there. So we asked our employees.

Source: blog.yammer.com Posted by bee 741 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes ago

This is part three in a multi-part series on how Océ is implementing Enterprise 2.0 within their organization. Part one covered the business drivers of Enterprise 2.0, and part two covered making the push for Enterprise 2.0

Océ was faced with how to deal with the current company culture. Traditionally, employees were not encouraged to ask questions or be open about personal doubts and ideas.

Today I will cover how Océ dealt with change management issues.

Source: www.jmorganmarketing.com Posted by bee 751 days, 17 hours, 17 minutes ago

by Luis Suarez

I have always wondered when would articles like eMarketer’s "Social Not a Threat to E-Mail" grab that opportunity of providing a bit more of extensive details on the transition that email is currently going through at the moment moving away from being, consistently, that content repository that fits, and suits all sorts of interactions, to that messaging and notification system, a la newsfeed aggregator, that plenty of people prefer in order to keep up to date with social software tools updates. I bet we would all be much better off.

Enterprise microsharing will help you reduce your incoming emails (As well as those going out!) and move across most of those conversations away from your Inbox into open social spaces where everyone can contribute and participate.

Source: www.elsua.net Posted by bee 767 days, 17 hours, 12 minutes ago

In many organisations, the implementation of social and collaborative tools is supplementing and extending existing knowledge management (KM) initiatives. In this case study, the KM team from the Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) in Singapore, describes the implementation of ‘MyHomepage’.

A new feature of the revamped staff directory, this is designed to enable better communication, dialogue and expertise sharing between employees.

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by bee 775 days, 1 hour, 22 minutes ago