Posts Tagged ‘social’

In part 1 of this series (see Social Intranet Technologies, Part 1), I talked about many different technologies or systems that make up a social intranet.  In this post, I want to expand the list of technologies, and discuss briefly several technologies that often get overlooked, but can be an important part of a great […]

I’ve been seeing a lot of interest in the concept of a Social Intranet lately.  The intranet is your company’s internal content network.  In many cases, it is nothing more than a series of links to other systems.  In more sophisticated intranets, companies publish corporate news and announcements, departments have their own pages to share […]

Jonathan Distad (@jdistad) passed this on to me and Mark Polly earlier this week.  It’s an article in MIT’s Sloan review titled, They Built it but Employees Aren’t Coming.  The article points out one piece of information that you would call the zinger: The most startling result was that when asked to assess the overall […]

Liferay recently released the enterprise edition of Liferay Social Office 2.0. The community edition came out last August. Social Office is a full social platform that includes blogs, wikis, activity streams, profiles, tasks, sites, instant messaging and document collaboration. The enterprise edition is the same as the community edition, but has been hardened for enterprise […]

IBM recently released the 2012 edition of their annual Tech Trends Report. The 2012 Tech Trends Report is based on a survey of more than 1,200 professionals who make technology decisions for their organizations (22 percent IT managers, 53 percent IT practitioners and 25 percent business professionals). The respondents come from 16 different industries and […]

IBM has a nice SaaS version of their social networking tool.  It’s been LotusLive for a while but was rebranded earlier this year as IBM SmartCloud for Social.  The complete the rebrand today by changing the url. For our Business Partners that are currently taking advantage of  the IBM SmartCloud for Social Business : Client trial […]

Thanks to Erin Maloney (@ErinE) for this great article by James Dellow at Ripple Effect Group.  James starts off by asking the question about whether SharePoint is a platform for social and then delves into all the other things taking place in the world. Firstly, its important to recognise that Microsoft’s long term strategy is […]

Perficient colleague Rich Wood shared his SharePoint Rockstar story with me at last week’s SharePoint Conference. Not surprisingly it had a Social and a blogging tie-in. Check it out!     You can read Rich’s blog posts here. What’s your SharePoint Rockstar story?

IBM recently published a paper called “The business of social business: What works and how it’s done.”  It driven by a survey of 1,160 business and IT professionals to understand how organizations leverage social technologies for business objectives.  It provides a great look into the current state of social business.  Some of the highlights are: […]

Providing social networking capabilities within the enterprise is quickly becoming a business necessity. Many organizations are already invested in the SharePoint platform, but may not be fully aware of its social collaboration capabilities and key business considerations. SharePoint My Sites facilitates social collaboration, making it easy to share information and stay connected with others. Users in […]

In the last few months, we’ve spent a lot of time on this blog discussing social intranets, SharePoint social business concepts and solutions, and web content management in SharePoint 2013. Given the interest in these topics, I thought I’d point our more SharePoint-admin-inclined readers to some similar content elsewhere that provides a fairly concise summary […]

I don’t think anyone would be surprised to learn that there’s a pretty good overlap between social banking and mobile banking.  I embed the following video where Mike Panzarella talks about a variety of things.  He goes into segmentation of customers around 1:30 in the video.  The entire video is interesting though. Now back to […]