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

Biznology

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. Williams was published.

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Why internal Social Business Platforms matter

Biznology

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. Image via Wikipedia. After all, face-to-face meetings, emails, telephone and shared files have all proven their value, and are alive and well in most enterprises.

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Live Blog: How to Make Collaboration Cook

Paul Gillin

“Once people start sharing, they want to go to the next level, like file-sharing or managing a wiki. “Once people start sharing, they want to go to the next level, like file-sharing or managing a wiki. Half-day sessions built in lunch gatherings so that employees would network with each other.

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Social Media Marketing Strategies for 2010

Webbiquity

The report’s authors begin by noting that: “An important transition in the use of social media for marketing purposes is taking place. In the year ahead, we see social marketing maturing to the point where a majority of organizations will be in transition from the trial phase to the strategic phase of the learning curve.&#.

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KM Edge: Where the best in Knowledge Management come together

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Network Online with Your KM Peers. At APQC and KM Edge , we understand the power of networking in business. More and more, people are reaching out to their extended networks of colleagues to ask questions and share ideas and best practices. I realize that not all young professionals behave this way.). Comments (0).

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Live Blog: 3M Unites Global Workforce With Technology

Paul Gillin

When it comes to innovation, everyone wants to know what the leaders are doing, and you won’t find many firms with a better innovation track record than Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing (3M). 3M’s track record of innovation is legendary, but globalization has presented new challenges. “We’re It’s still running.”

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The Bamboo Project Blog

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. RANT ALERT! ) In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. As we think about that module and the fact that for most people, their primary interaction with blogs is to read them, Im growing impatient with this idea from a learning perspective.

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