Staff members’ digital identities underpin everything they do in today’s organisations. The ‘digital workplace’ is centred around staff profiles that show who staff are, what they are doing, their skills and expertise, and who they are connected to. As the richness of interaction, communication and collaboration grows, so does the importance of the staff profile [...]
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Also tagged: digital workplace, Intranets, staff directories
The term ‘social intranet’ has become popular in recent times, and describes an intranet with social media tools — blogs, wikis, microblogs, comment functionality and more — embedded within the core intranet software platform. However, before a social intranet can be successful, work must be done to enrich and develop a much more fundamental aspect [...]
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Also tagged: Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, social intranets, staff directories
In many organisations, the implementation of social and collaborative tools is supplementing and extending existing knowledge management (KM) initiatives. In this case study, the KM team from the Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA) in Singapore, describes the implementation of ‘MyHomepage’. A new feature of the revamped staff directory, this is designed to enable better [...]
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Photographs can be a very valuable inclusion in a staff directory. They are helpful for putting faces to names, and nowadays in our on-line socially connected world are somewhat expected. However, talk to any intranet team and you will hear about how difficult it can be in practice to achieve this. The reality is finding [...]
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Also tagged: Photos, staff directories
Dorje McKinnon has posted about role titles in staff directories. To quote: Today one of the people I follow on Twitter asked the following question. @ChristySeason Asking all #intranet tweeps: Does your company publish employees’ titles on your employee directory/look up/phone book? (It’s a short post, but screenshots are always valuable.)
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: Intranets, staff directories