by Toby Ward | Apr 25, 2019
Tags: new social intranet, sharepoint, slack, social intranet, Teams
All-the-rage 10 years ago, collaboration on the social intranet is now part of the weekly work routine for most knowledge workers. The social intranet is at the hub of this collaboration and the underpinning technology continues to innovate and evolve. About 90% of intranets have some form of social component, be that instant messaging, discussion […]
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by Toby Ward | Dec 8, 2017
Tags: intranet webinar, microsoft teams intranet, slack intranet, social intranet
The social intranet is nothing new, but advances in social computing, and a supporting cultural shift, has advanced the social intranet beyond the tired suspicion of being merely a fad. Social intranets, and collaboration tools (whatever the label), were never a fad, and are no more fading or disappearing than email or the ‘traditional’ intranet. Although a […]
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by Toby Ward | Apr 26, 2017
Tags: Asana, collaboration tools, enterprise social network, Facebook Workplace, Microsoft, sharepoint, slack, social intranet, social intranet tools
The social intranet has been quietly evolving. And counter to the predictions of some who dismiss the phenom as merely a fad, social is becoming more and more pervasive. Most organizations are not yet fully social; at least not internally. Of course, most organizations still have a poor intranet that is woefully underfunded, and they […]
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by Toby Ward | Dec 22, 2016
Tags: employee engagement, employee productivity, social intranet, social tools, study
Employees may waste too much time on the intranet; social media wastes time; the Internet is a productivity drain. These are common refrains and concerns expressed by many executives, albeit the less educated ones, generally of an older generation, nearing or past retirement. And yet, employee productivity is a big concern. But doesn’t the social […]
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by Toby Ward | Mar 19, 2015
Tags: intranet, intranet infographic, social intranet
The intranet is dead. How many times have we heard this tired, uninformed complaint or false prophecy in the past 10 years? Too many, which coincidentally is equal to the number of half-wits out there that don’t know any better. Yes, the intranet is sick, under-funded, under-used, under-appreciated, and perhaps even ‘mostly dead’ in many […]
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