5 Key Features To Consider When Choosing A Social Intranet

30th July, 2010 - Posted By Angela Cullen - No 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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Recent Volcanic Eruption Can Help Stress The Importance Of Your Intranet Apps

24th April, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

Sometimes opportunities knock quietly….and sometimes they hit us with explosive force. The trouble is, we often miss them even though they are staring us right in the face. As an example, take a look at the recent volcanic explosion in Iceland. This natural disaster has demonstrated the need for business travelers to have access to their corporate information, regardless of where they are located.

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Attention Corporate Executives! Your Time For Social Media Leadership Is Now!

13th April, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments

About a year ago, I had a conversation with a then SocialMediaphobe who tried to convince me that social media was a fad that had no future in the workplace. His argument was that Facebook was too personal and Twitter too truncated to ever offer any value to business culture. I tried to convince him that, like all emerging technologies, social media was still finding its place in the workplace, but it was slowly, almost imperceptibly changing the way we communicate. His response was to try to dissuade me by saying “it’s just a bunch of people talking about what they ate for breakfast.”

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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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Bing! Makes Searching For Intranet Tweets Even Easier

20th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

Although I’m a huge fan of Twitter, I have never been a big fan of the native Twitter search engine. As a result, I’m always looking for better ways to keep up with tweets on Intranet topics. While Tweetdeck is by far my favorite tool, I have to say I was curious when I heard that both Bing and Google were going to provide search interfaces into Twitter.

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99 Great Internal Communications Resources – Sean’s Internal Comms Twitter List

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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