Many believe that the best way to encourage Enterprise Social Network adoption is for leaders to set an example. However, our research places much more emphasis on personal interest....
Read MoreMany believe that the best way to encourage Enterprise Social Network adoption is for leaders to set an example. However, our research places much more emphasis on personal interest....
Read MoreLet’s be honest, getting people to use Yammer effectively, or at all, can be pretty hard work. You can’t embed any Enterprise Social Network into your organisation alone. ...
Read MoreGuest article from Marlee Long. Tracking user traffic levels can be as simple as a few clicks and the generation of a report. Additionally, they can look into who’s creating the content, collaboration, and engagement buzz on the ESN, and who’s in need of more guidance, or training....
Read MoreYammer is more than a system for sharing status updates; it's a platform for community, network support, discovery, and collaboration. Yet adoption among end-users often stalls. ...
Read MoreIt's not about social networks replacing the intranet, and it's not about one or the other. It's about blended communications and the appropriate balance....
Read MoreThis year's Intranet Innovation Awards by Step Two unearthed a rich set of interesting practices in the intranet and digital workplace world. Notably, it was often the smaller organisations that set the standards. On November 3rd, the European-based winners and commended entries came together. Thanks to Richard Hare of Intranetters for hosting the event, and Steve Bynghall for organising the awards on behalf of Step Two.As...
Read MorePlenty of companies have early success with Yammer. And then it stalls. Or they hit growing pains and the early enthusiasm wanes.This scenario can happen to any enterprise social network (ESN), but it seems most pronounced in Yammer, partly because Yammer has such a large market share, but also because its freemium model means that the usual business-case test criteria (and the useful thinking that...
Read MoreA record of September's SMiLE conference, live blogged through the day, encapsulating the case-studies that might inspire you to make more use of your enterprise social networks to support change, engagement, and communication....
Read MoreHierarchy has become the bogeyman of the "future of work" movement. Listen to some commentators, and it sounds as if the honest worker in the corporation is being oppressed by power-crazed managers, hoarding information like Gollum with a hangover. Presumably some of these managers were promoted from honest worker level, so does hierarchy bestow power, which immediately corrupts?Not so fast. There are definitely bad hierarchies,...
Read MoreYou mean to get the maximum value from your ageing intranet and try to 'sweat the asset', but everything is slowing down and whole sections of the company ignore the intranet. At some point, you have to admit that the system is on its last legs. What are the signs that push you over the edge?...
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