Making Enterprise 2.0 work – literally
A lot of companies are still in their phase for experimenting with what is called enterprise 2.0 or social business. For some this means to establish web 2.0 inspired tools such as blogs, wikis or...
View ArticleWhat is the value of ‘likes’?
We’ve lived with the words ‘like’ and its hateful neologism ‘unlike’ since Facebook introduced it almost five years ago. It’s become a staple of social media sites. We’ve all-grown used to seeing — and...
View ArticleYammer & Klout: An intranet game too far
Earlier today, Yammer and Klout announced details of a new strategic partnership that will see Klout scores added to Yammer profiles. On the face of it, these are two complementary technologies — one...
View ArticleDefining your intranet role in one sentence
It’s the weekend and you are sitting at a dinner party, to the left you have Paul the policeman, across from you is Harriet the teacher, and at the end you have Bob the bus driver. After Bob finishes a...
View ArticleWhat’s the future for the ESN market?
This week news broke that leading enterprise social network Jive is searching for a buyer. It follows in the footsteps of Yammer and Socialcast in moving from successful enterprise social startup to...
View ArticleStarting a community on your intranet social network
When I first started working on intranets back in the late 90s I remember searching high and low for tips on starting up a forum on an intranet. How do you get the ball rolling? But it seemed there was...
View ArticleJoin the intranet community on Slack
Team messaging app Slack took the enterprise world by storm in 2015, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s taken team messaging capabilities, added integration with a host of web apps, and put them all...
View ArticleWorkplace by Facebook: The Basics
In October Facebook launched their long-anticipated enterprise offering, Workplace. Regular readers of this blog will know we’ve been super excited about this since it was first rumoured in 2014. With...
View ArticleShould I replace the intranet with an Enterprise Social Network?
With the arrival of Facebook Workplace and the merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn enterprise social just got sexy, and many companies are asking if they still need a traditional intranet. Comparing the...
View ArticleJive catches the Wave to new horizons
At the start of this week Jive, one of the dominant enterprise social vendors, agreed to a buyout. While analysts had been predicting an acquisition as the most likely future direction for Jive for...
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