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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10th October, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 4 Comments
First, let me start off with a bit of a disclaimer. I’m not an anti-Facebook zealot and my goal isn’t to discourage the use of Facebook by companies and organizations. To the contrary, one of the biggest roles of my job is to explain how social media channels can be used effectively. So, with that said, my goal with this series of posts is to educate anyone considering the use of Facebook as their corporate Intranet to seriously reconsider. Using Facebook for a corporate Intranet is like using a hammer to loosen a nut. It can be done, but…why??
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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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6th September, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments
Let’s face it, new employees who come to your organization right out of college are probably pretty familiar with social media. The question is whether they understand the business acumen and fundamental principles of social networking to do it correctly.
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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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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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