Toby Ward has written about social intranet governance. To quote: Where every organization should include specifics for social media use, if your organization does not have a separate, superfluous social media policy (that’s right, a social media policy is largely superfluous if you have proper governance and content / editorial policies in place. Someone will [...]
Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Also tagged: governance, Intranets, social media, social software
Toby Ward outlines his take on social intranets vs intranet 2.0. To quote: An intranet that features multiple social media tools for most or all employees to use as collaboration vehicles for sharing knowledge with other employees. A social intranet may feature blogs, wikis, discussion forums, social networking, or a combination of these or any [...]
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Also tagged: intranet 2.0, Intranets, social intranet, social software
Thomas Vander Wal has written about the problems with the word social (as in social media, social tools). To quote: I have run into the connotation of social as a term that has associative connotations to the hippy movement (the slide image Andrew uses with his presentations), socialist (non-capatalist or anti-capitalist tendencies), redundant term to [...]
Categorised under: Enterprise 2.0
Also tagged: social media, social software
Terminology is always muddy in emerging fields, particularly where product innovation outstrips theoretical thinking. This is very much the case in the spaces of “collaboration” and “social media”. While this is hard to avoid, it’s extremely problematic. Very different approaches and tools are lumped together, people discover they aren’t talking about the same things, and [...]
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0
Also tagged: Collaboration, social software
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 only a matter of time [...]
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0
Also tagged: Enterprise 2.0, social networking, social software