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23 Oct 2012

Digital Workplace Manifesto (text)

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Digital Workplace, Intranets, Knowledge Management, Strategy
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[caption id="attachment_1251" align="alignright" width="200"] image: Kheel Center, Cornell U.[/caption][alert]This post has been superseded by an illustrated version of the Digital Workplace Manifesto[/alert]The agenda for the digital workplace is becoming established from an architectural perspective, but what are the things we need to preserve from the employeeworker point of view? Inspired (like so many) by the market-driven Cluetrain manifesto, here is our take on a manifesto...

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21 Aug 2012

SharePoint 2013 for Collaboration

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.SharePoint 2013 SeriesIs SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites  SharePoint 2013 social features SharePoint 2013 for collaboration (this post) SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming)See our summary webinar on...

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02 Aug 2012

SharePoint 2013 Social Features

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Technology
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.SharePoint 2013 seriesIs SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites  SharePoint 2013 social features (this post) SharePoint 2013 for collaboration SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming)See our summary webinar on...

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30 Jul 2012

Is SharePoint 2013 Worth Waiting For?

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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The new SharePoint has been released as a public preview, along with hopes by the Microsoft team of “leapfrogging expectations” (see the launch blog post). Is it worth holding out for the full release? Do the new features make it compelling to those planning a social intranet?[frame]This post is the first of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular...

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20 Jun 2012

Five Principles for Managing Intranets in the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Governance, Intranets, Strategy
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Intranets have always straddled multiple functions, but with the growth of the digital workplace, balancing what is in and out of scope for an intranet is getting trickier. Often related initiatives such as SharePoint, Yammer, mobile access or BYOD risk confusing employees, but are not necessarily within the remit of the intranet manager to set their strategy. Here we present five guiding principles for that balancing act: 1. Don't Plan Your...

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Re-thinking employee adoption.
17 Apr 2012

Loving the Intranet

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Digital Workplace, Strategy
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Often discussions on intranet adoption tend to focus on launch or training activities. But what role should adoption play in digital workplace strategy? Indeed, what does ‘good’ adoption look like?It’s not even clear cut that people spending more time on an intranet is necessarily a good outcome – it could just mean that they’re lost.We also need to move beyond “what’s in it for me”...

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29 Mar 2012

The Digital Jester

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Communications, Digital Workplace, Governance
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 [caption id="attachment_805" align="alignright" width="150"] photo by Roy Blumenthal[/caption]Introducing the Phantom - a character created for the social network at LexisNexis UK  and  vividly described by Laurie Hibbs at the Melcrum Digital Workplace Summit this week.The Phantom is an online avatar that joins their internal Yammer discussions and is able to say what many think but few would post. He tells people who post trivial comments to the...

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01 Mar 2012

Mobile and Social Intranets – IntraTeam 2012 Day 3

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets
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Day 3 from the IntraTeam ConferenceSee also: Day 1, Day 2  Sharon O'Dea - Mobile Intranet at UK Parliament Sharon (@sharonodea) wins my vote for the most entertaining session. She talked about the challenges of being an intranet manager in the unusual world of a near 1000-year old organisation. When she started there was an old intranet, but with elections coming and a new influx of younger, novice MPs, ...

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29 Feb 2012

IntraTeam Conference Day 2: What’s Happening in Intranets and the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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This is part 2 of a day-by-day blog of Intrateam 2012See also: Day 1, Day 3 Tony Byrne - Latest Trends in Collaboration and Social Computing Within Larger Enterprises Tony (@TonyByrne) of the Real Story Group (RSG) began by saying: If you throw in blogs, wikis etc. at the organisation and people don't use them, it's not an adoption problem, it's a technology strategy problem; you haven't...

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29 Feb 2012

How Good is Your People Finder?

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Technology
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Here is a quick checklist that you can use to rate your phone book 'maturity'.Count your points for the following: 1)  1 Point if all your employees are in one phone book —2 bonus points if contractors are too —2 bonus points if you have supplier contacts 2) 1 Point if all employee data comes from a master source —2 bonus points if you have a process to check accuracy (e.g. when...

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