Social business doesn’t thrill employees (yet)

Social media continues its’ persistent march across the firewall and into the day-to-day lives of intranet users, but executives and employees alike are less than thrilled with the end results. In fact, the initial overall rating on internal employee-only social media (intranet 2.0) is middling at best. READ AND DOWNLOAD THE SOCIAL INTRANET WHITE PAPER […]

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Open source CMS intranet

More than one-quarter of all organizations with an intranet use a CMS to power their intranet; most CMS solutions are commercial, brand name solutions. Preliminary data from The Social Intranet Study (855 respondents) reveals that while portal solutions such as WebSphere and SharePoint (also called a “development platform”) power one-third of intranets, but pure breed […]

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The social intranet becomes reality

Social media tools on the corporate intranet (intranet 2.0) became mainstream nearly two years ago.В  Preliminary results from The Social Intranet Survey (open now, prepared by Prescient Digital Media and sponsored by IABC) show that about two-thirds of organizations have at least one social media tool on their intranet. Shockingly, there are some pundits that […]

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CMS or SharePoint?

SharePoint is a lot to a lot of organizations: a plethora of features, and hundreds of third-party applications make it an overwhelmingly robust platform, but overwhelmingly underwhelming for some. Web content management is a particular feature set that never fails to underwhelm publishers: greatly improved compared to the woefully inadequate MOSS 2007, but far from […]

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6 killer reasons for selling social media to executives

Social media is now present on just about every big and medium-size corporate intranet. Though most deployments are minimal, if not pure pilots, and are usually not done with much planning or change management. It’s no surprise then that most executives (senior management) still need to be sold the value of social media on the […]

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