Do You Know Your Employees? Social Intranets As The New Talent Management System

27th September, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 1 Comment

Imagine, for a moment, that you have accepted a new position as a corporate executive tasked with figuring our how to make your company work better, faster, cheaper. Along with the details of your position, you have been informed that you have access to a wealth of competitive intelligence, product experience, and innovative thinking at your fingertips. Sounds like a recipe for success, right?

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Sean’s Twitter Wordle For 08/09/09

9th August, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments

If you haven’t used Wordle, it’s a pretty cool way to visually represent what you’re blogging or tweeting about in an artistic manner. Here’s a copy of my tweet cloud up to today looks like in a Wordle. Just click on the image for a larger view.

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My Foul Owl Ordeal – The Juicy Details Of Getting My Blog Hacked And Being Suspended By Twitter

23rd June, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 7 Comments

Warning: This is a long blog post detailing my adventures through blocked blogs and suspended Twitter accounts. If you’re looking for a short read or have a really short attention span, you’d be better off checking out my Tweets or skipping to the end of this post where there are some key lessons learned from [...]

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Social Media Ostriches – The Corporate Hypocrisy Of Blocking Employee Access To Facebook and Twitter

8th June, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 6 Comments

I find it mildly amusing that some companies are becoming social media ostriches and sticking their heads in the sand by denying access to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. In this article, I cover my top five hypocrisies in corporate arguments for blocking employee access to social media.

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Must Have Resources For Intranet Professionals In 2009

18th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 13 Comments

If you’re looking to build an Intranet or improve on the one you already maintain, check out these great resources that can help in your efforts. Some require registration to access and participate and others are for purchase only, but they can really assist in the decision making process of any selection or updates to your Intranet.

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Good Read — A Twitter Primer from Ragan

12th April, 2009 - Posted By Dan Kneeshaw - No Comments

From time to time I am going to reference good reads that I come across, and this is the first of those.  I want to pass this on to our readers because this is one of the better descriptions I have read regarding the phenomenon known as “Twitter“.  Lindsey Miller from Lawrence Ragan Communications recently published the article  A [...]

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Top 10 Must Haves For Every Good Intranet

9th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 15 Comments

Okay Intranet fans, here it is…the 2009 completely unofficial list of must have functionality for every Intranet:

{drumroll please….}

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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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