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Last week, less than a year after Atlassian launched its workplace chat app Stride, came the surprise announcement they’re pulling the plug in an agreement with competitor Slack. This marks the latest salvo in the battle for the increasingly crowded enterprise chat market. What’s the [read more]
Talk of Artificial Intelligence – or AI – is everywhere. The rapid development of AI promises a future where bots will run routine tasks better and cheaper than humans. This, in turn, will transform what we currently call the digital workplace into one where people [read more]
This week saw another twist in the tale of Enterprise Social Network (ESN) vendor Jive, with the sale of their external communities product, Jive-x, to social media management vendor Lithium. This comes just three months after Jive were acquired by Aurea, the customer-centric software house [read more]
In my office, the company gives you cake. It’s a perfunctory cake but served up daily, it keeps employees reasonably happy and productive. Even though employees get cake every day, they barely notice it and never sing its praises. They probably think that everyone gets [read more]
With the arrival of Facebook Workplace and the merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn enterprise social just got sexy, and many companies are asking if they still need a traditional intranet. Comparing the high adoption rates of ESNs with the low readership on internal communications, scrapping [read more]
In the third and final part of our Workplace by Facebook series we’re looking at apps, bots and Workplace’s ability to integrate with other systems. As Workplace is still in its infancy, the ability to build on, and integrate with, the platform is limited to [read more]
In October Facebook launched their long-anticipated enterprise offering, Workplace. Regular readers of this blog will know we’ve been super excited about this since it was first rumoured in 2014. With the product now available, we’ve written a three-part series on all you need to know [read more]
Much hot air, waffle and expert thought-leadership has been shared on the topic of Digital Workplaces. Despite a multitude of definitions, including my own, there are some common themes: it’s the tools and services that an employee needs to do their job. It’s not every day [read more]
If you’re not there already, I’d hazard a guess that someone in your organisation (probably from IT) has already asked the question “Should we move to the cloud?”. There’s a lot of information already available on the cloud and its pros and cons. I’m not [read more]
This week news broke that leading enterprise social network Jive is searching for a buyer. It follows in the footsteps of Yammer and Socialcast in moving from successful enterprise social startup to acquisition by technology giants in just a few short years. It’s thought that [read more]
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[…] memory fades, but it involved alcohol. I remember discussing with Luke Mepham of Intranetizen that someone should put on an independent intranet-focused conference. It
If you’ve ever become caught up in an intranet project deadlock between HR, IT, Comms or some other part of a business, you’ll know that […]
Pick the right intranet solution and you can still configure/extend without building from scratch, but with less risk/effort (although always some element of trade off […]