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Hindsight 20/20 Series: 4. Your social business platform as a shopping mall

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At some point during your social business journey, you’ll figure out that being the new kid on the block or having the latest shiny new tool in your communications box only takes you so far. Metrics – social business friend or foe? ). Even wikis, who are supposed to be social, are mostly one-trick ponies.

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Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet

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If page-rank search, blogs, wikis, social networks and microblogging work so well out there, they should just thrive in the workplace too, but we now know for a fact that they often don’t. You may no longer remember this, but back in 2006, wikis were all the rage. Why does that happen? Williams was published. On the contrary.

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Role of social media in knowledge management

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Your knowledge base probably includes blogs and wikis, or other types of online content, and as we have mentioned, social media is also a place where knowledge is shared. One of the very important roles that social media plays in knowledge management is the possibility to increase your brand awareness.

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Olympics, Diversity and Social Business Platforms

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Social business platforms often fall in the same trap: instead of catering for a very diverse workforce, several of them seem to assume that the whole digital social world is like Facebook or Twitter. In the long term, social business platforms that understand that diversity of communication needs in the workplace will do much better.

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3 reasons to avoid Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMPs)

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You might consider AMP for informational blogs, wikis, or other static help documentation. I’m constantly trying to prove that the traffic I helped generate had positive business results. This was one reason why we could never attribute business results to organic search traffic. Some content formats load well in AMP.

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Why internal Social Business Platforms matter

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As Social Business Platforms make their headway into corporate environments, many people start asking why we are trying to change something that served us so well for many years. From that perspective, generically speaking, we are in the business of processing and moving knowledge. Image via Wikipedia. Keep reading, and find out why.

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The intranet social garden and quantum mechanics

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In my last Biznology post, “Social business, the forest and the garden: Your intranet is not the Internet” , I wrote about why patterns that are so successful over the Internet often fail inside corporate firewalls. Use wikis as a convenient way to create short-lived websites or to collaborate on draft content instead.

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