Step Two Designs

The digital workplace is an emerging term that describes how the working environments in organisations of every type are being transformed by new technologies and behaviours. While the digital workplace offers a holistic view of the enterprise space, the challenge is to understand it in concrete terms. As mentioned earlier this week, we’re now talking [...]

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This week we start discussing the digital workplace with a bang. (Watch this space for a big release in the next few days.) Observing the discussions to date, it’s interesting to step back and observe the activity and momentum of the movement as a whole. There’s no question that organisations need to work better and [...]

Categorised under: Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, Knowledge management

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The phrase ‘social intranet’, while appearing more commonly, still generates both interest and confusion. What makes an intranet ‘social’, and what are the differences between ‘social intranets’ and ‘traditional intranets’? A philosophy and way of working Social intranets are not a technology, or a specific set of features or functionality. Instead, they represent an emerging [...]

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You’d think from the buzz about social media and collaboration tools that the world is changing rapidly. And you’d be right. These tools are transforming the typical corporate intranet. The intranet doesn’t need to be a one-way communications channel and home for policies. With the availability of new tools-and new mindsets-intranets can foster discussion, break [...]

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Microblogging inside an organisation provides staff with the ability to post short messages to everyone in the organisation or a select group. A variety of online tools can be used, for example Yammer, SocialText or an internally built solution. Deploying microblogging involves more than understanding the technology, because it is really about providing opportunities for [...]

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