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The Yin and Yang of Collaboration: Engagement and Analytics
Let's face it: Getting people's attention, getting time on their calendar, getting them on the phone, getting people to collaborate on anything is like herding cats.
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CMSWire's Top 10 Hits of 2013: Intranets
Pity the modern intranet. It's hard to define, underappreciated, suffers from an identity crisis and is often regarded as a source of frustration. It may even have grown too big to fail. But the death of the intranet has been greatly exaggerated.
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2014 Wish List ... from Rich Blank
In 2014, I wish IT wakes up and realizes they need to unbundle ecosystems and stop looking at features. I wish CIOs would think more strategically about re-platforming, and focus more on user experience and overall value delivered to users. -- Rich Blank, solutions engineer with Jive Software. Title image by Amodiovalerio Verde (Flickr).
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How Do You Define a Modern Intranet? It's Simple
It's possible to dress up intranets with a lot of bells and whistles, but at the end of the day an intranet should do three high level things and do them well.
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Is SharePoint a Failed Vision for Collaboration?
Has the massive investment in SharePoint lived up to its promise as the uber-collaboration platform for the enterprise? Has it delivered the measurable business value everyone expected? How do your users feel about SharePoint? Are they still working like its 1999? Is SharePoint 2013 a platform that will take your
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Social Business Challenges Transforming Companies....Slowly
During our inaugural public CMSWire Google+ Hangout session in December, we chatted with experts on how social business is challenging for large companies to implement, but also how it as been successful in limited cases.
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Future Prediction: Lose the Consumer, Risk Losing the Enterprise
As we move into a new year, one thing is certain for enterprise IT: the consumerization of enterprise technology is not a trend ... it's a reality. We can all thank Apple for setting everyone’s expectations around design, quality and user experience extremely high.
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ROI of Social in a Crisis
As someone born and raised in NJ with a wife from Long Island, we have many friends and family in the affected areas hit by Hurricane Sandy. I’d like to share a few real life examples on how social technology can be used in a crisis to connect with people,
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Got SharePoint? Start with the End User in Mind
When it comes to information worker tools, it’s rare I hear someone from IT say “we walk a day in the life of our end users and start backwards from there.
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Social Overload? It's Time to Get Back to Basics
Often times I talk to organizations who have no idea what their goals are or what they want to do with the latest and greatest social tools on the market. They focus too much on the technology and whether it looks pretty or is simple to use.
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Top 3 Considerations for Deploying Social Technology in the Enterprise
While we might expect social within the enterprise to be easy as Facebook or Twitter, it’s not. Deploying social technology within the enterprise is a journey filled with organizational hurdles that include compliance, security, culture change, executive sponsorship, budget and integration challenges to name just a few.
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Social is the Tip of the Big Data Spear
There's been a euphoric halo around all things social. Stick social in front of any word today and it sells: social networks, social business, social software, social media, social CRM, etc, etc, etc. There must be a bubble like the internet of 1999.
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Just Because You Microblog Doesn't Mean You're a Social Business
In the new world order of technology and the web, we often associate social media or social networking with Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. However, just because you have a Facebook page or Tweet on Twitter doesn’t mean you’re a social business. Just because you microblog on some cloud-based CRM
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A Strategic Look at SharePoint: Economics, Information & People
Like it or not, SharePoint continues to be a central topic of discussion. It’s a platform everyone integrates with at the same time criticizes and competes with. Love it or hate it, if SharePoint is inside your organization, it’s also safe to assume it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
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