Social Business Matures- Large Company Bans Internal Email
A large company in France (Atos) “having concluded that the vast majority of email is just time-wasting noise” has recently made the drastic decision to ban all internal email, and instead utilize community and instant messaging metaphors for internal communications. This is a huge step forward for the maturity of the social business and so [...]
Posted by Shannon Gburzynski on December 13th, 2011 in Case Studies, Cool Stuff, Internal Community, Strategy, UncategorizedNo Comments
Why Traditional Intranets Fail and how Social Media Can Help
In recent community intranet strategy sessions, we’ve listened to employees from various departments across organizations discuss the shortfalls of intranets that are in the way of increasing productivity not enabling it. While they are a hindrance to business efficiencies, it is not an uncommon scenario inside even today’s biggest organizations. The number of conversations around [...]
Posted by Shannon Gburzynski on October 13th, 2011 in Best Practices, Internal Community, UncategorizedNo Comments
How to Increase Internal Corporate Community Engagement
“Most corporations, on the other hand, only know how to talk in the soothing, humorless monotone of the mission statement, marketing brochure, and your-call-is-important-to-us busy signal. … They will only sound human when they empower real human beings to speak on their behalf. While many such people already work for companies today, most companies ignore [...]
Posted by Shannon Gburzynski on March 31st, 2011 in Best Practices, Internal Community, Owned Media, Strategy, User ExperienceNo Comments
Enterprise Community Strategy: Be Proactive vs. Reactive
It is not a secret that most would prefer to be proactive with a situation than having to be reactive. It’s why we watch the weather before leaving the house in the morning, (#snOMG anyone?) or do background research before sales calls. Being proactive allows us to be as in control as possible, of course [...]
Posted by Shannon Gburzynski on February 10th, 2011 in Best Practices, Case Studies, StrategyNo Comments
The Evolution of the Corporate Intranet to Enterprise Social Collaboration
As the shift in media continues to move at an incredible pace we are beginning to see it reach out and touch more and more aspects of our lives, it notably affects the way we socialize, but most recently we have seen it transforming the way that businesses communicate and collaborate internally especially within their [...]
Posted by Shannon Gburzynski on January 24th, 2011 in Best Practices, Internal Community, Owned Media, Strategy1