Ready to roll out your new Enterprise 2.0 Strategy? Looking to save the company millions by implementing an internal social strategy? Think that implementing a blog will help you increase sales, cut support calls, and help unclutter your email Inbox?

Before you jump into the deep end and propose implementing any E2.0 solutions, you might want to take a look around and assess whether your organization has an understanding of what E2.0 really is and whether it is ready to take on an internal social strategy.

Source: www.intranetexperience.com Posted by support 977 days, 14 hours, 1 minute ago

The words people use when talking about their intranet often reveal more than they realize. At the risk of over-simplifying, I’d like to share some impressions.

1. Which word do you use when talking about your intranet?(My impressions in parentheses!)

• Users(Sounds passive, very IT-oriented, makes me think of “user manuals”.)

• Clients(“They are outside, we are inside.” “They are separate from us.” IT often use this term to refer to the business managers in their organizations which suggests IT and business ...)

• Staff (I dislike this collective noun - like sugar, coffee, etc. - not a group of diverse, living individuals.)
• Employees (At least is has an ’s’ on it!, still on the receiving end because opposed to employer, reminds me of now, out-dated B2E portals.)

2. How do you react if I ask “Do you have any user-generated content on your intranet?”

4. Do you have an overall intranet role called ‘”editor” or an “editorial policy” for your intranet?

5. Which of the following terms do you use?

Of course, there’s no “perfect language”. Every word has connotations.

What are your likes and dislikes in intranet-speak?

Source: netjmc.com Posted by bee 977 days, 2 hours, 13 minutes ago

The Intranet Professor provide advice about re-designing a new intranet navigation structure in isolation of other intranet improvement activities.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 984 days, 8 hours, 26 minutes ago

This week, I had the pleasure of attending The Communicating to the Public and Employees in the Age of Social Media conference hosted by Ragan Communicators and the BC Public Service Agency. While all the presentations were valuable, Monday’s session on SAS’s intranet struck a particular chord with me.

SAS’s intranet has been designed as a completely collaborative environment promoting a culture of trust and employee engagement. The site plays a key role in making SAS’s workplace such a success by focusing on some important employee engagement strategies.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 981 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes ago

This report provides an overview and gives recommendations based on research collected from over 500 participants during June and July, 2010. These individuals come from a diverse range of companies and industries, from small to extremely large enterprises. The goal is to better understand the interplay of technology, collaborative work cultures and leadership.

First, we cover Enterprise 2.0 adoption, and examine the collaboration tools and technologies that are used in today’s American businesses. We all have heard and possibly experienced the web 2.0 revolution, now this movement is readily occurring in companies.

This reports highlights how well businesses integrate Enterprise Collaboration Technologies (ECT), whether social media policies are in place and how workers perceive collaboration and its impacts. We ask participants to list tools which they officially use for work, and tools they informally utilize to get their job tasks done.

Source: e20pros.com Posted by support 980 days, 19 hours, 36 minutes ago

There are two common questions that potential clients often ask us about Socialcast:

“What are some practical applications to my business?” and, “what’s the ROI of an employee social network?

The best answer to these questions has come from doing a significant amount of research in exception handling and management in the enterprise. I’ve had the pleasure of participating in the Deloitte Center for the Edge workshops, lead by John Hagel (who writes a phenomenal blog for the Harvard Business Review alongside John Seeley Brown, whom I’ve taught with at UC Irvine’s MBA program).

These workshops have taken the idea of exceptions out of the realm of software programming and brought them into the daily workflow of everyday employees. Now, when clients ask about ROI and practical applications of social networks, we respond with our findings from our own clients as well as what we’ve discussed at the Center for the Edge.

Source: blog.socialcast.com Posted by admin 980 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes ago

User Manuals Are Dead

So why are they still being produced? What value are they providing your customers? User manuals today are the marketing equivalent of mailing out company brochures. Utterly useless.

Static HTML and PDF based user manuals aren’t much better. They haven’t evolved or kept pace with even the most rudimentary corporate websites. Admit it. They aren’t seen as strategic and your budget reflects it.

Source: www.seekomega.com Posted by admin 980 days, 14 hours, 39 minutes ago

One of my clients asked how I would approach a new project where I had to ‘sell’ SharePoint. In short, I don’t ‘sell’ SharePoint, with or without apostrophes, but if presented properly, SharePoint will largely sell itself.

As such, I’ve compiled three lists of features that are important to have in mind when presenting SharePoint to someone new. The lists are the ‘do this’, the ‘maybe in certain situations’ and the ‘if you value your life and paycheck, do not do this’.

Source: blog.furuknap.net Posted by support 988 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes ago

Much has been said and written about the importance of key figures – also in relation to intranets. Intranet managers are expected to constantly produce and provide ”relevant and up-to-date key figures” to management in order to document their every activity and essentially justify their existence.

Moreover, many intranets are being used to publish key figures and information, allowing employees to follow important developments, such as monthly results and sales- and customer- figures This can resul...

Source: www.jboye.com Posted by bee 988 days, 11 hours, 9 minutes ago

In “Social Software - An Enterprise Perspective - Part 1: SWOT Analysis of Wikis” we discussed the strengths and weaknesses of wikis. Now we will go on with part 2, the SWOT analysis of weblogs.

History & Definition

The term “weblog” was introduced by Jorn Barger in 1997. In 1999 Peter Merholz created the term “blog” by breaking the original word weblog. The origins of blogs can be seen in early tools like early e-mail-lists and internet-forum-software. In the early beginnings, people used their b...

Source: milosvujnovic.blogspot.com Posted by enterprisezweinull 987 days, 16 hours, 23 minutes ago