Tag: Social

A social intranet boosts employee engagement
A social intranet boosts employee engagement
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The key to higher productivity, cost-efficiency and profitability lies indisputably with your co-workers. Or to be more precise – in their commitment to your business. If you can strengthen their engagement and enthusiasm, productivity is guaranteed to surge. A social intranet has proved to be one of the best means of tapping into your organisation’s… READ MORE

Approaching Social with Purpose
Approaching Social with Purpose
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At the SharePoint Connect 2014 conference (#SPcon14) in Amsterdam this month, I gave a keynote presentation on the very difficult proposition of integrating social into an organization. It’s a topic that I find myself writing about and talking with customers about more and more as organizations begin to seriously consider the implications of moving forward with some of Microsoft’s latest technology (Delve, Groups, inline social) being released within SharePoint Online and across the Office365 platform.

Business Value of Social Computing (I)
Business Value of Social Computing (I)
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Hello there! I’d like to start a new series of posts where I want to highlight and demystify the benefits of introducing and extending enterprise social networks (ESN) in companies. There is a lot of material online about the social networks, with diverging and even contradictory findings. I would like to present a summary of the most important points that link social networks and business. I will not talk about a specific technology such as Beezy or Yammer or SharePoint, but about the underlying business value.

Balancing Governance And Social
Balancing Governance And Social
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Back in 1997, between working full-time, attending business school in the evening, and trying to get my own software startup off the ground, I began working with a developer on building out an integrated instant messaging (IM) client for my startup’s collaboration platform.