4th July, 2011 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments
For the last couple of years, I have been using this blog and my @seanrnicholson Twitter account to provide information about Intranets and their impacts on organizations. Looking back of the relationships I have built, lessons I have learned, and responses to the blog articles and tweets, I’d say it’s been a resounding success. But, things change…and in the digital world, sometimes things change quickly.
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9th January, 2011 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 6 Comments
2010 has been a great year for Intranets. Web 2.0 finally came out of its shell and the explosive growth of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube brought social tools to the mainstream. This, in turn, helped many organizational leaders understand that capturing and sharing information inside the enterprise had a lot of potential, when social tools are leveraged.
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12th December, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 6 Comments
Ahhh…reinventing the wheel. It’s an age-old tradition for a lot of organizations, especially when it comes to technology. Some new class of productivity software comes along and the entire IT organization has to come to a grinding halt while an ECM strategy is defined. Or maybe it’s an ERP strategy. Or maybe it’s a CRM strategy. Sound familiar? Even been locked in the “paralysis by analysis” situation where you can’t get anyone to decide because there are just too many so-called “experts”, “gurus” and “SMEs” guiding the conversation?
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8th October, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments
The launch of the popular Social Network movie coupled with Facebook’s recent enhancements to their Groups functionality has fueled the requests for my opinion as to whether Facebook is becoming a viable platform for an organizational Intranet. I’ll be writing a blog post this weekend detailing the technical/functional reasons that Facebook still isn’t a good choice, but in the meantime I wanted to share this funny video pointing out that many employees just don’t take Facebook seriously.
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30th July, 2010 - Posted By Angela Cullen - 2 Comments
When building a business case around a social Intranet, there are a few key components to consider. Here are five suggested features that you might ask your potential vendors to demonstrate.
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26th January, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments
As Intranet Professionals, think about whether your Intranet is being used to encourage new ideas. Do you have a campaign asking employees to behave like clowns? Do you have an idea center where employees can submit their ideas and vote on those that they feel would be valuable? Are your executives open to new ideas and are they actively encouraging innovation?
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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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9th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments
As a follow up to my 99 Great Intranet Resources and 99 Great ECM Resources posts, I have also created a list of 99 great Internal Communications Resources on Twitter. If you’re looking for the folks who tweet about employee engagement, thought leadership, internal mass communication tools, and intranets…these are your folks!
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