Risks and Rewards of Social Media and Networks

Social networks of digitally-connected customers and employees are growing in power and influence each day, but companies are often still blindsided by this phenomenon. Barry Libert, CEO of Open Matters and author of Social Nation, says the reason is that corporate leaders tend to focus on internal issues like operational excellence, but are confounded by external forces such as social networks that they cannot control. In this interview with Knowledge@Wharton, Libert shares a four-step process...

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From: KnowledgeAtWharton

Related topics : social media network / using social media

Terry McGraw on working and collaborating at The McGraw-Hill Companies

McGraw-Hill's internal social network helps employees collaborate, share knowledge and work closer as a team, helping us create a smarter better world.

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From: McGraw HillFinancial

Related topics : internal employee social network

GROU.PS Enterprise Social Network

Leave traditional internal communication tools aside!

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Create a corporate social network for your organization in 5 steps:

1. Choose among 70 templates offered.

2. Create content for your company.

3. Invite your employees to share and connect.

4. Follow your business processes live and provide faster internal communication.

5. And create your own document management...

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From: Serkan ALP

Related topics : social enterprise network

Enterprise Social Etiquette

With Enterprise Social Networks like Oracle Social Network, Yammer, Huddle and Salesforce Chatter fast becoming the collaborative platform for internal communications and engagement for some enterprises, it's unlikely we can just transpose the guidelines that we use with traditional tools like email and apply them to these social applications.

This show looked at what sort of Enterprise Social Etiquette guidelines we need in business to help employees transition from traditional to social...

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From: StopThinkSocialBiz

Related topics : social enterprise network / business social network

Driving enterprise social from the bottom up

Rolling out an internal social network looks like a deceptively simple exercise. In reality it's a major change management initiative. In this session I will go through my journey as an employee œYammer champion and share my mistakes and successes as a non-manager who wanted to make Yammer work for a UK based nonprofit. I will also use examples from other organizations taken from my book Internal Social Networks The Smart Way. In the process map out a potential path that you, too, can follow...

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From: SharePoint Conference 2014

Related topics : internal employee social network

Telligent Enterprise 2.0 - Collaboration Software

Telligent Enterprise is an internal collaboration application (social networking software for employees) that promotes a productive and efficient corporate culture. Built on top of the Telligent Evolution platform, Telligent Enterprise provides essential integration with standard applications such as e-mail, Active Directory, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing enterprise organizations to leverage and extend their existing technology.

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From: Telligent

Related topics : internal employee social network

The Future of Social Networking in Organisations

This third video blog of Gautam Ghosh unveils an underlying trend that I believe will be mission critical. In it he explains how business structures are going to get disrupted, depending upon the ability of an organisation to embrace corporate social networking.

As Gautam points out, computing and technology have changed organisations as much as organisations have changed their technology. Look back today at how email and ERP have transformed business structures to enable better information...

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From: Employees1st

Related topics : internal employee social network / social business network

Carer Positive: Scottish Gas

Carers Scotland has worked with Carer Positive employers in Scotland to produce a range of videos designed to highlight best practice in supporting employees with caring responsibilities. The case studies feature the experiences of carers and their employers, showing the benefits of good support from both perspectives.

This video features Scottish Gas. Part of the Centrica Group, it supplies gas, electricity, boilers and other home services and has 6,300 employees in Scotland.

Support for...

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From: Carers UK

Related topics : internal employee social network

DotNetNuke: The Social CMS for Business

DotNetNuke Goes Social. Chris & Will's Excellent Social Adventure

DNN 6.2: The Commercial www.dotnetnuke.com

DNN 6.2 enables businesses to quickly build internal social networks to improve collaboration, communication and employee productivity. It also enables the creation of external communities that turn customers into advocates, which lowers support costs and increases revenue opportunities.

Product Comparison: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Products/Compare-Editions.aspx

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From: DNN Corp.

Related topics : business social network

Social HR

Social HCM and HR technologies are being rapidly adopted in response to the needs for increased employee collaboration, conversation and engagement. Social HR tools are proving helpful for recruitment, aiding the onboarding process, increasing engagement in learning and development, facilitating more dynamic feedback mechanisms and performance reviews, and improving collaboration and knowledge sharing with internal social networks, wikis and contextual, push-based feeds. We explore social HR...

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From: hcmdottv

Related topics : internal employee social network