DorjeM

Hi there, During the recent Intranets Live web conference (October 2008) I heard Shiv Singh talking about how Avenue A Razorfish had used a specific tag on Delicious to drag an RSS feed of useful links onto their intranet. He also mentioned a similar thing using a special tag on Flickr images, and using that to drag an appropriate photo roll onto the intranet. I was intrigued so thought I'd do some rough research to see if such a thing was relatively easy to do. Initially I thought I'd look at the technical requirements - from what I found it wasn't going to be too difficult to do with delicious and very easy to do with Flickr. From there I progressed to some water cooler interviews to see what response might be, I picked staff I know are web savvy to ask my questions of. Their response was positive so as a final check of - was this a good use of my time and resources I did a quick poll of a sub set of my users. 7% of intranet users were given the option of replying to the ...

Huge list of examples where social networking tools / sites are being used to improve the image of companies globally   http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/09/ive-been-thinki.html   Thanks to James Dello for the link

I'm slowly being moved from my "twit is an important aspect of the twitter name" point of view   http://davidallgroup.com/files/Twitter101Guide-DAG.pdf   has some interesting pointers and famous case studies.   DorjeM

Michael Sampson's book 'Seamless Teamwork' is now available from Amazon and should be hitting the book stores in New Zealand prior to Christmas. Michael's book focuses on how to make the most of SharePoint once your organisation has decided to go down that path. Michael talks about how Seamless Teamwork is the How part of the equation while his Seven Pillars paper focuses on the What. For intranet teams globally this will be a great book to get your hands on, to help ensure you are delivering the most effective solution you can. DorjeM

I've just been up from 4am until 6am and watched the sun touch the harbour out the window. Yep yet another joy of living at the end of the earth - and why you ask ? Well today was the first IBF (Intranet Benchmarking Forum) Intranets Live event . I live blogged - thanks for the inspiration Michael Sampson - the event. A first for me so apologies to those who I was recording for any mistakes, they are mine alone. Overall an interesting session - shame it will cost so much to attend following sessions. Kellogs walk through Talk with Shiv Singh about intranet wiki Talk with researcher about wikis Intranet doctor takes a look at BT and Corus intranet issues CapitalOne intranet manager interview Interview with Yammer CEO , enterprise twitter 200 attendees from more than 20 countries, including a few hardy souls from the south pacific. There were several technical hitches that meant we couldn't see Shiv Singh's presentation and didn't get to hear Jane McConnell at all...

Talking to Yammer CEO - David IBF found that Yammar has helped glue IBF togeather David was COO of PayPal Then started Genie - family tree social networking site Got more than 30 employees so wanted a way to solve email overload and keep everyone connected. We liked twitter - but everyone sees your updates, very hard to limit to those with same email domain as you. IBF use skype and email as well as Yammer, 40 in team globally. Helps allow questions and feel a sense of community Nic Price - feels like a little bit of intranet outside the intranet on the cloud Q David what is the market for Yammer A We want Yammer to spread virally, make money off yammer as an enterprise product. Empower employees to communicate - free for users, enterprise can gain control by paying for admin tool access. Q What is the payment model ? IBF pay nothing at present A That is OK, effectivly it is a free trial period $1/user/month is what you pay for admin tools Q Some companies felt annoyed by users signing...

Catherine Murphy (intranet manager) from CapitalOne Q How did you end up as intranet manager ? A Fell into it, knew person implementing portal and he gave me the job. Over time fell into overall management of it. Q CapitalOne intranet flavour A More interactive, representative of our culture open and collaborative. We have blogs, wikipedia. Looking for better way to connect people. Our portal helps support cultural integration [screen shot] Q Proud of ? A Ease of getting to things from the home page, people find things quicker and easier, they use search less Q Platform ? A Oracle web logic Q What bad things happen to Intranet managers ? A Getting caught up in intranet content, rather than being able to keep focus on strategic goals. I prefer to spend time on future design, usability, productive functionality. Part of the change where communication is opened up between staff an associates, means it's easy to loose focus. Q Economic crisis ? Had an effect on your role ? A In a warpe...