10 Signs Your Organization Hasn’t Quite Figured Out Enterprise 2.0

19th September, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 11 Comments

Ready to roll out your new Enterprise 2.0 Strategy? Looking to save the company millions by implementing an internal social strategy? Think that implementing a blog will help you increase sales, cut support calls, and help unclutter your email Inbox?

Before you jump into the deep end and propose implementing any E2.0 solutions, you might want to take a look around and assess whether your organization has an understanding of what E2.0 really is and whether it is ready to take on an internal social strategy.

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99+ Great SharePoint Resources – Sean’s SharePoint Twitter List

10th January, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

Continuing with my posts on great Twitter resources, this is a followup to my 99 Great Internal Comms Resources, 99 Great Intranet Resources and 99 Great ECM Resources posts. Below is a link to my list of 99+ great SharePoint Resources on Twitter. If you’re looking for the folks who tweet about SharePoint as an Intranet platform, ECM solution, and a collaboration tool…these are your folks! Pay careful attention and you may see folks who are also providing links to some valuable SharePoint alternatives, as well.

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Reflecting On 2009 – A Great Year For Intranet and ECM Conversations and Connections!

28th December, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 4 Comments

2009 has been a great year full of exciting opportunities, great projects, engaging conversations, and healthy dialog about the topics of Intranets, Enterprise Content Management, and Enterprise 2.0. As I reflect on the events that have occurred over the last year, I’m amazed at how much has transpired and how many new people I have had the honor of connecting with.

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Is ECM Going The Way Of The Dodo? Or Maybe The Way Of The Intranet?

20th December, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 12 Comments

Is Enterprise Content Management going the way of the Intranet and becoming an outdated notion? Will better federated search technologies negate the need for a central repository? Are organizations better off investing in the functional elements of ECM like document management, records management, and business process management instead of buying the whole enchilada?

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99 Great Enterprise Content Management Resources – Sean’s ECM Twitter List

6th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments

As a follow up to my 99 Great Intranet Resources post, I have also created a list of 99 great Enterprise Content Management Resources on Twitter. If you’re looking for the folks who know, speak, live, learn, and love ECM, these are your folks!

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It’s 2AM, Do You Know Where Your Organizational Information Is??

21st October, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments

The reality is that organizations are generating more and more information on an hourly basis. Take a moment and think about all the documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, voice mails, and sticky notes you generated on a daily basis just 3 years ago. Now, add modern day blogs, tweets, text messages, forum posts, comments, status updates, videos, podcasts, and wiki posts to your list and what do you get? More information? Definitely! But the larger problem is the fact that the information is now spread out in more places, making it harder for other employees and customers to find it.

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Bringing Twitter Functionality Inside The Firewall To Your Intranet

5th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments

Many Intranet professionals are already leveraging the power of Twitter to market their activities outside of the firewall, but few have taken the next step add microblogging as a feature to their organizational Intranet. Luckily, the great folks at the Laconica project are building an open source microblog application that can easily be installed in both Windows and Unix/Linux environments and rolled out in a matter of hours.

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Intranet Portal Requirements In The Age Of Social Media

30th March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 8 Comments

A few years ago, I was in charge of an RFP for a Fortune 500 company to select an Intranet portal application and portal content management system. Thinking about the requirements for that portal and how they would change in this age of social networking got me thinking about how the requirements would change if I were to conduct that same RFP today.

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