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

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Altavista, Geocities, AOL, Google, Amazon, WordPress, eBay, Hotmail, Wikipedia, MySpace, Flickr, Delicious, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Pinterest all had their days of glory. You may no longer remember this, but back in 2006, wikis were all the rage. Why does that happen? Williams was published.

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The intranet social garden and quantum mechanics

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How can a social platform based on blogs, wikis, discussion forums and status updates succeed under those conditions? Use wikis as a convenient way to create short-lived websites or to collaborate on draft content instead. You don’t have an army of volunteers to maintain it accurate and neat.

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Why Can’t I Share to Google+ From My Apps for That?

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Even my RunKeeper app posts to Twitter and Facebook. So, when I am short on time or with people, I will generally take a quick Instagram and get my Instagram family as well as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, Posterous, and FourSquare in one shot — sorry Google+. Hey, Google! Your Google+ app isn’t anywhere to be found.

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The infancy of social technologies

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The last 20 years saw knowledge workers adding a steady stream of tools to their repertoire: increasingly sophisticated office suite software, email, the Internet, instant messaging, voice over IP, Web conferences, and, in the last decade, a number of social technologies in the form of blogs, wikis, social networks, microblogging and others.

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Wikipedia Management for Dummies

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” you ask, “I can do everything my client wants with my own sites, through social media like Facebook and Twitter , and through SEO.” Wiki Markup Language 101. ==Category Heading==. “Why should I?,” ” No you can’t. Level 2 Heading==. Level 3 Heading =. Simple Link within Wikipedia]].

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Why internal Social Business Platforms matter

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There’s also an argument to be made that in the consumer Internet, knowledge is also handled efficiently: sites like WordPress, Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter, Quora and Pinterest provide magnificent mechanisms to capture, filter/curate and distribute knowledge efficiently.

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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. Think about your social business platform as being the hub, with multiple input and output channels.