As you will know, I have helped many colleagues with setting up SharePoint Team Sites. These could be simple project sites, mainly used for sharing documents, but also sites where important processes were facilitated. My clients were very diverse. Each initial interview was therefore exciting. What kind of person would be in front of me? The Hesitator, the System-Lover or the Ideal Partner? Or the person who inspired the 80-120 rule? Read on!

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For years, employees have been subjected to the "Godspeed" method of their employers introducing new communication technologies to the workplace. Here's how it works:

The IT department configures the new technology, subjecting it to rigorous testing to ensure that the bits get to where they're supposed to go and that the tool works they way it's supposed to without interfering with other systems. Once they're sure the technology works right, they issue the following instructions to the workforce: "Godspeed."

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BlogAbout meIntranet expertsMedia engagementsMy experienceMy services A top performer’s career development November 2, 2011 at 8:58 am | Posted in community, wiki, blog, training, SharePoint 2010, collaboration, engagement | 3 Comments Tags: social media, wiki, blog, training, career path, sharepoint 2010, engagement, collaboration

How do I engage employees and improve collaboration? is a question I have been addressing in my posts Make a newbie welcome and more engaged,, In...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 61 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes ago

M. has worked for the same company for circa 4 decades! A lifetime devoted to one organization, witnessing its ups and downs, watching its history unfold as turbulently as that of her country. For her work and devotion she has received praise and recognition on some occasions, namely whenever a party to celebrate important dates of the organization were organized.

Some months ago, however, the team managing an internal blog-like communication platform invited her to give an interview, later published in that platform, as a way to share her story and her memories of 4 decades of work with younger colleagues.

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In the TechCrunch article, What if this is no accident?, Jon Evans looks at the current boom in software engineering jobs in comparison to the lack of jobs elsewhere. He wonders if this is how the new economy will look for a while.

I’ve been saying for a while that simple and merely complicated work will continue to get automated and outsourced (read this post if you don’t believe it or look at this example of legal work getting automated). To keep a job in the creative economy (with core skills of Initiative, Creativity & Passion) one must become an indispensable linchpin in the organization.

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Today, the only feasible way for employees to share their competence efficiently with their colleagues is often to share it with digital means.

This applies not only to competence but also ideas, experiences and any information we need to make the right decisions Although there are many ways to share information digitally in efficient and effective ways today, as is proved daily on the social web, many of the new technologies and practices have remained fairly unexploited. This suggests that many organizations are still ignorant about the importance of sharing and its impact on their performance.

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So much has already been written about the use of social networking for business and the need for improved collaboration. Next-generation tools purport to ‘solve every problem you ever had,’ but what is real and what is noise? Like many new trends, there is enormous hype about anything social today.

Here are a number of facts you need to know...

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BlogAbout meIntranet expertsMedia engagementsMy experienceMy servicesMy interview about the social workplaceOctober 19, 2011 at 10:43 am | Posted in best practice, beta testing, collaboration, digital workplace, engagement, intranet, social media | Leave a comment Tags: best practice, beta testing, bt intranet, collaboration, digital workplace, engagement, social media, user testing

I posted recently that I will be a panellist at the Social Workplace conference in London, UK, on 1 November.  Ahead ...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 96 days, 13 hours, 40 minutes ago

Intranets have long been the standard for sharing secure information within an organization, but they can be challenging to manage, especially when left to one person or group, and consequently, the information could become stale or employee involvement low.

So how do we make sure our intranet is valuable and the investment maximized?

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BlogAbout meIntranet expertsMedia engagementsMy experienceMy servicesGood governance = engaged peopleOctober 10, 2011 at 8:08 am | Posted in collaboration, digital workplace, engagement, intranet, social media, strategy, value | 2 Comments Tags: best practice, collaboration, digital workplace, engagement, governance, intranet, standards, strategy, value

I have the pleasure of presenting at Interaction 2011 this Thursday, 13 October, on how good governance can make people more engaged to the organis...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 107 days, 10 hours, 21 minutes ago