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Digital workplace professionals have long predicted the death of email, as organisations pledge to kiss goodbye to it in favour of integrated communications and social intranets. But could those predictions prove premature? JP Morgan today announced they’re banning staff from using instant messaging in the wake [read more]
Back in 2011 we wrote about 10 laws that every Intranet manager should know. Number 7 on that list is the EU Cookie Law, and since then the legislation has been through a few iterations. So many iterations that it would be entirely acceptable for [read more]
They say that communication is only 7% verbal. That means that video communicates at least ten times more than a written message alone. Paralanguage (tone, rate, pitch) , gestures, eye contact, facial expression, posture, stress and intonation all come in to play. The true personality [read more]
Earlier today, Yammer and Klout announced details of a new strategic partnership that will see Klout scores added to Yammer profiles. On the face of it, these are two complementary technologies — one providing prescient social networking functionality and the other giving an instant read-out [read more]
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph today, an influential group of business leaders in the UK argue that flexible working can boost business as well as benefit employees, if correctly implemented. They commented “Flexible working has been too narrowly characterised as a benefit for [read more]
Beleaguered internet firm Yahoo! surprised many on Friday when it announced an end to working from home in the company. In a memo widely leaked by disgruntled employees, Yahoo!’s Head of HR Jackie Reses explained: To become the absolute best place to work, communication and [read more]
A lot of companies are still in their phase for experimenting with what is called enterprise 2.0 or social business. For some this means to establish web 2.0 inspired tools such as blogs, wikis or unified communication solutions. For the others the approach leads to [read more]
Gamification – applying game design thinking to non-game applications – has certainly been the buzzword of 2012, with some analysts predicting that by 2013 half of all business initiatives will have gamified processes. But the response from digital workplace specialists has been more muted, with [read more]
Since 1995, Gartner has used the Hype Cycle Model to characterise the over-enthusiasm and subsequent disappointment that typically happens when new technologies are introduced. Every year, Gartner issue a Hype Cycle special report, showing how far along the cycle technologies have moved, helping CIOs to decide [read more]
A few weeks ago, Yammer took hold in my organisation. From a standing start 18 months ago with just me, we gained tens of users in 2 weeks at the beginning of the year and growing quickly. (Aside: those first few years of Yammer were [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 […]