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The Social Business Study 2013
If you need to make a business case to move to social media, or more enhanced social media (internally or externally) then spend 10 minutes to take...
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The Truly Social Intranet (Enterprise)
In a truly social enterprise, social requires more than just a Facebook page and Twitter account; you need to live and breathe social, inside and out. Anyone...
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Learning from the Greatest Intranets
The great are great for a reason. And while It’s dangerous to merely copy others, much may be learned from examining the trails they’ve blazed. Having worked...
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The State of the Social Intranet Report (2013)
Social media represents a major, evolutionary leap for corporate intranets. Yet many intranets are still struggling to succeed given competition for budget dollars and internal resources. Your...
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Thursday, 23 January 2014 6:42
SharePoint vs Yammer and Jive
Posted by Toby Ward
SharePoint 2013 is a robust portal and social media platform. SharePoint offers a lot, but out of the box, it can be less than thrilling, which has given rise to leading alternatives and optional platforms such...
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Tuesday, 03 December 2013 21:47
SharePoint 2013 for the Social Intranet
Posted by Toby Ward
SharePoint is present in 80% of the Fortune 100; and plays a prominent intranet role in about 70% of knowledge worker intranets (either powering the main intranet portal, or delivering associated collaboration sites and/or document repositories)....
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Tuesday, 19 November 2013 21:54
Social intranet marketing & change management
Posted by Toby Ward
Social media tools (intranet 2.0) are so simple and inexpensive to deploy that it is incredibly easy to be lulled into complacency until your initiative begins to fail. Often, failure is simply a lack of use...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013 7:25
Content migration for the SharePoint intranet
Posted by Toby Ward
Migrating content is a big job — in fact, it’s often massive. Many intranet content migration jobs involve many hundreds of thousands of pages and documents (as it did with one recent client with only 400...
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Thursday, 24 October 2013 18:55
Employee ambassador programs and the intranet
Posted by Toby Ward
Harvard Business School conducted and ROI-engagement study that revealed for every 1% increase in employee engagement, the return on investment (ROI) for a social intranet increased 1000%. Wow. I’m not sure that this is the case...
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Tuesday, 15 October 2013 18:48
Designing a social intranet
Posted by Toby Ward
Like any software or intranet solution, it is easy to simply accept the de facto out-of-the-box (OOB) design and user experience. However, few organizations do that, and most spend a great deal of time and money...
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Thursday, 20 June 2013 6:18
Your bad intranet
Posted by Toby Ward
Your intranet sucks, but you’re not alone. The average intranet sucks, too. Well, I may sound a little harsh, but what would your reaction be if your child came home with a report card sporting a...
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Thursday, 04 October 2012 6:27
The State of the Social Intranet Study
Posted by Toby Ward
The state of the intranet is less than underwhelming, and nearly as poor off as the endangered Siberian Tiger; years of neglect, poor management, and underfunding, have left the weakest of corporate victims strewn on the...
