[caption id="attachment_3888" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Sabre Town is social networking for the enterprise, an in-house developed, Facebook-style platform that's led to quantifiable savings for the company. Screenshot courtesy of Sabre."] Post 4 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight ...
Articles tagged: social networking
12 rules for bringing ’social’ to your business
Dion Hinchcliffe has written a post outlining 12 rules for bringing 'social' to your business. To quote: But for most of us to really get strategic value from social business, we'll need to understand the ground rules. In other words, let's ask and answer the tough questions in making this ...
Being social at work: which communications model to adopt for the enterprise?
Matthew Hodgson has written a post on communications models for enterprise 2.0. To quote: Web 2.0 technology presents the modern organisation with a plethora of means for communicating new information to staff. While some of us are now running to install wikis and blogs as a vehicle to achieve enterprise ...
Social computing behind the firewall – best buy’s video case study
George Dearing has posted a link to a video case study of Blue Shirt Nation, the social networking initiative at Best Buy in the US. To quote: With all the talk about the inability to show demonstrable ROI in social computing, it’s refreshing to see a company lay out the ...
Time for a reality check
Richard Dennison writes about the need for a reality check on social media tools. To quote: I’m reading an increasing amount of stuff taking swipes at social media along the lines of … it was all just hype … it’s not delivering what it promised etc. I guess it was ...
2007 to 2008 social technographic data indicates increase In adoption
Jeremiah Owyang reports on the recent Social Technographic survey from Forrester, looking at behaviour amongst the US general population. To quote: He points out that inactives (people that cannot be reached through social technologies) has reduced from 44% to 25%. This means that three fourths of the US online users ...
A scenario-based approach to evaluating social software
Tony Byrne has written an article on their scenario-based approach to evaluating social software. To quote: Explicitly or not, different Social Software products target different use cases. Understanding the business scenarios that fit better or worse for the different packages enables you to see deeper into their relative strengths and ...
Do public social networks have a place in government offices?
Craig Thomler asks: do public social networks have a place in government offices? To quote: With these mediums we put appropriate policies in place, sometimes train people on acceptable conduct and rely on trusting individuals to do the right thing, to act in their own self-interest (continued employment) and back ...
Employee social networking at Sabre
Toby Ward has published a case study on employee social networking at Sabre. To quote: The results have been spectacular: 60% of questions are answered within one hour (one hour!); each question receives an average of 9 responses (9 responses!). The system has already led to more than $150,000 in ...
