Step Two Designs

Over the last few years, social and collaboration become a big topic, with active interst in many organisations, as well as in the wider community. Amongst some writers and thinkers, this has been painted as a war between old and new thinking. The two sides are drawn like this: “Traditional” or “old” intranets content heavy [...]

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Also tagged: Collaboration, intranet, social business, social intranet, social tools

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This year was a real vintage for the Intranet Innovation Awards, the global competition run by Step Two Designs which is now in its sixth year. With over 80 entries (a leap of over 50 per cent on 2011) and many high quality entries, we were able to see that intranet teams are more professional [...]

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Also tagged: Collaboration, dashboards, intranet innovation awards, Intranets, mobile, social tools

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Intranets have been going ‘social’ for some time now, first with lightweight aspects such as commenting on news articles, then with more embedded functionality such as blogs, wikis and document co-authoring. Now, a new breed of software products are gathering momentum in the shape of enterprise social network (ESN) tools. The likes of Yammer, Newsgator, [...]

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Deane Barker, of Gadgetopia fame, will be flying into Australia to present at Intranets2012 in May. His talk will be on social intranet adoption and the fears surrounding a social intranet in the workplace. This should prove to be both inspiring and challenging. As part of the lead-up to his talk, Deane has created a [...]

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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 [...]

Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets

Also tagged: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, social intranets, social tools

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