Enterprise 2.0 News & Articles

When there's a disconnect between actions and words, how can we expect our organizations to change?

Despite the hype around the social intranet, mobile access and enterprise collaboration, according to the latest data from the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC), intranets aren't any more collaborative, interactive or mobile than they were three or four years ago.

Sometime soon, if not already, there's a very good chance that you're going to be thinking about putting SharePoint 2013 into your organization. In what is the fifth major iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous collaboration platform, there are a ton of juicy features in SharePoint 2013 that you and your business users are going to want to get your hands on.

Harmon.ie is giving BlackBerry 10 users access to Office 365 and SharePoint both online and offline.

This month we explore the connection between employee engagement and gamification. It's a partnership that many companies have been wrestling with for a few years now. The idea that incorporating simple, but meaningful "games" into workflows can somehow enhance an employee's productivity, while providing some healthy competition isn't so far-fetched. But like anything designed to disrupt the traditional nature of work, the success of gamifying the workplace comes down to people and process.

There is a lot of talk from technology vendors about creating employee engagement. The message seems to be, “buy technology and you can create employee engagement.” It’s a nice thought but not one that is likely to pay off.

Cloud-based social enterprise solutions provider Saba Software is enhancing the platform supporting its flagship People Cloud application. The platform upgrades will provide new People Cloud features in areas such as mobile applications and Big Data.

This month at CMSWire, we are diving into the strategies and tools for employee engagement. With that in mind, our first mobile app of the week for March is SuMo sustainability employee engagement app from CloudApps.

Less than two years after VMware snapped up SlideRocket, it is selling it off to ClearSlide, a presentation suite for sales teams.

One of the most unique and new organizational learning strategies is gamification. The theory arises from the increasing embrace of gamer culture as a whole with younger generations rising to take the reins left them by their predecessors.

New technology moves into the enterprise slowly, and it's been no different for social software. Some companies are not ready to adopt social while others are cautiously optimistic, but even for those who are at the cutting edge, information still tends to become siloed, making it less useful and harder to find.

Following up on our review of the Social Features that are currently available within SharePoint 2013, let's highlight some of the features available within Yammer. This high level overview will get you thinking about the powerful things that your organization can do with the tools available within Yammer.

The focus on employee engagement has grown geometrically over the past five years, but many organizations still don't know how to approach this challenge.

In the second announcement in recent weeks by Microsoft in relation to localization and its major product lines, Microsoft has announced new translation capabilities for Yammer messages, enabling users to translate messages into their native languages.

As intranets grow in complexity, the importance and challenges of setting up an intranet governance structure grows in line -- but the benefits will be seen in the long run.