The agenda for the digital workplace is becoming established from an architectural perspective, but what are the things we need to preserve from the employee \worker point of view? Here is our take on a manifesto for employees, contractors and freelancers. We originally released this last October as a text version inspired (like so many) by [...]
The agenda for the digital workplace is becoming established from an architectural perspective, but what are the things we need to preserve from the employee \ worker point of view? Inspired (like so many) by the market-driven Cluetrain manifesto, here is our take on a manifesto for employees, contractors and freelancers. The Digital Workplace Manifesto [...]
Summary Document-based collaboration has always been at the heart of what SharePoint is about and by 2010 most of the functionality was there. 2013 consolidates these strengths and brings some refinements, such as Sky Drive and improved navigation, without any large innovations. Where 2013 really wins is the integration between social and more structured collaboration, [...]
Summary There’s much to like about SharePoint 2013’s social enhancements. The most immediately visible change is the introduction of the newsfeed, giving the microblogging capability that was lacking in 2010. The second headliner is a new type of site called “Community” that brings together existing social elements and adds badges and levels too. These, [...]
The new SharePoint has been released as a public preview, along with hopes by the Microsoft team of “leapfrogging expectations” (see the launch blog post). Is it worth holding out for the full release? Do the new features make it compelling to those planning a social intranet? Summary SharePoint continues to offer a very versatile basis [...]
Intranets have always straddled multiple functions, but with the growth of the digital workplace, balancing what is in and out of scope for an intranet is getting trickier. Often related initiatives such as SharePoint, Yammer, mobile access or BYOD risk confusing employees, but are not necessarily within the remit of the intranet manager to set their strategy. Here we present [...]
Often discussions on intranet adoption tend to focus on launch or training activities. But what role should adoption play in digital workplace strategy? Indeed, what does ‘good’ adoption look like? It’s not even clear cut that people spending more time on an intranet is necessarily a good outcome – it could just mean that they’re [...]
Introducing the Phantom – a character created for the social network at LexisNexis UK and vividly described by Laurie Hibbs at the Melcrum Digital Workplace Summit this week. The phantom is an online avatar that joins their internal Yammer discussions and is able to say what many think but few would post. He tells people who [...]
Day 3 from the IntraTeam Conference See also: Day 1, Day 2 Sharon O’Dea – Mobile Intranet at UK Parliament Sharon (@sharonodea) wins my vote for the most entertaining session. She talked about the challenges of being an intranet manager in the unusual world of a near 1000-year old organisation. When she started there was an [...]
This is part 2 of a day-by-day blog of Intrateam 2012 see also: Day 1, Day 3 Tony Byrne – Latest Trends in Collaboration and Social Computing Within Larger Enterprises Tony (@TonyByrne) of the Real Story Group (RSG) began by saying: If you throw in blogs, wikis etc. at the organisation and people don’t use [...]
