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Tag: enterprise social networks
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Forget Slack vs. Email: Think Slack Plus Email
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield made a confession in late September: he admitted email was useful. Butterfield made the confession at the HubSpot Inbound marketing conference in Boston. His full quote reveals what Butterfield, CEO of a self-professed "email killer" company, truly thinks of email and its future: "Email will
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CIOs: Step Away From the Email and Get On Board with Collaboration
How many more times do we have to hear email is king of workplace communications? As a former CIO at an insurance provider with over 30,000 deployed Yammer seats, I couldn't help but add my two cents to the discussion. While email remains a critical form of communication in
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The Different Modes of Collaboration (and Why They Matter to Your Business)
When we talk about collaboration we typically assume it's a single behavior — we either collaborate or we don’t.
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Start Your Digital Workplace Off With a Big Bang
Approximately 13.8 billion years ago, a sudden and violent explosion created our universe from a point of infinite density and temperature. It’s hard to imagine a more chaotic beginning, but from that tumultuous explosion emerged the world as we know it.
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5 Surmountable Hurdles to Collaboration Success
We invest in digital collaboration tools, therefore we see collaboration as the outcome, right? Unfortunately, the answer is largely a resounding no. Over the last year, I have been running workshops for multinational organizations on how to overcome collaboration's hurdles.
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Efficiency Versus Effectiveness: 57 Yammer Networks Can't Be Wrong
Studies of how organizations work have been around pretty much since the beginning of the industrial age.
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How Enterprise Social Chat Feeds Into Productivity
Cats, holidays, children, craft beer, more cats .... The number of non-work related topics posted on workplace enterprise social media can boggle the mind, leading management to view enterprise social as a time waster, the long lunch of the digital workplace.
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Brad Grissom: Intranets Provide the Hub for Employees to Make Connections
Brad Grissom’s career path exemplifies how the separate skillsets of business and IT can meld harmoniously together. His background in business continuity and disaster recovery planning has proved very helpful in his current role as senior manager of communication and collaboration solutions at Southwest Airlines.
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The 6 Stages of Digital Workplace Maturity
How do you define digital workplace success? To me, a successful digital workplace is one that helps us get jobs done. The idea of the digital workplace emerged from the content-centric world of intranets, as people began to recognize there was more to work than intranet content alone.
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Trends May Come and Go, But Social Collaboration Is Here to Stay
When enterprise social collaboration technologies started hitting the mainstream five or six years ago, some argued social was just a fad — real business was done through more structured collaboration platforms.
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How to Promote Effective Communications in Your Workplace
Your business depends on effective internal communication to run efficiently, but this is easier said than done. With new channels and applications emerging all the time, employees face a bewildering set of choices.
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5 Places Where Social Collaboration Tools Help Business Processes
Social and collaboration tools in the workplace get a chance to shine when put to work to improve specific business processes. It's not about transparency for transparency's sake. Or an opportunity for shameless self-promotion.
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The Enterprise Social Network Market Heats Up
When Microsoft rolled out Office 365 Groups in 2015, it once again thrust the future of Yammer into the spotlight. The enterprise social network (ESN) industry at large closely watched the move as other providers, including Jive and Beezy, continued to enhance their platforms. Many of these questions were answered in September with Microsoft's announcement of a tight integration between the two, giving all Yammer groups access to Office 365 Groups. The Yammer announcement came shortly before the launch of Workplace by Facebook, the social networking giant's foray into the ESN business space.
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Crummy Intranets Call for Crazy Solutions
Is anything rarer than an intranet that employees love? While I’m fully versed in the black swan model of how it’s impossible to prove a negative, this might be the exception. All enterprise intranets and social networks have the same glaring flaw that technology cannot fix: search.
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