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Tag: enterprise 2.0 (page 4)
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On Our Radar: Cotap
We continue today our series looking at tech companies to watch in 2016. We began yesterday with a peek into Affectiva and a look into hot tech trends. Today, we catch up with Cotap, an enterprise communication platform. Year founded: 2013 Founders: Jim Patterson and Zack Parker Founders backgrounds: Jim
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Finding Common Ground Between Internal and External Audiences
Internal and external audiences are converging according to some communications professionals or people involved in implementing and managing digital workplaces. The design of both internal- and external-facing channels sometimes reflects this view, for example with a social media feed appearing on the intranet homepage, or a website open for the general public to view which predominantly includes
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Simplifying the Social Collaboration Software Landscape
When modern social collaboration software first emerged over 10 years ago, the main goals were to increase teamwork through sharing and to reduce friction between silos. These goals were only partially met due to limited features.
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2015 Contributors of the Year: Carrie Basham Young
Some people need coaxing to find their voice, to write the way that they speak. Although I have not met her in person, my money says Carrie Young is not one of them. Titles like "Tools, Schmools: It's Really About Community Management " tell the story — Carrie combines
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6 Factors for Organizational Innovation
Organizational innovation isn’t just about having original ideas — it isn’t even always about originality — it is about the ability to mobilize those ideas into a product or service. Innovation: The Organizational Amplification of an Idea The knowledge spiral or SECI model by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi is
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Why Your Call to Innovation Keeps Falling Flat
The call to innovation is a noble call. An acknowledgement that great effort is needed to lead the market, or even to maintain a market presence. Businesses use it as a rallying cry, an initiative everyone can get behind.
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Fixing Our Disjointed Digital Workplaces
If you work for a medium to large organization that's been around for a while, chances are there's plenty of room for improvement in your digital work environment. Take comfort in the knowledge that you're not alone.
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Embrace the Growing Remote Workforce
More businesses across industries and sizes are realizing the benefits that remote working has to offer. Last year saw a 26 percent increase in open remote job postings and 83 percent of hiring managers said telecommuting would be “more prevalent in the next five years.
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HR Steps into the Spotlight
Back in 2005, Fast Company published an article titled, “Why We Hate HR,” in which the authors argued that the Human Resources department had the greatest potential to drive business performance, but was the one that “most consistently under-delivers.” What a difference a decade makes.
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Who Needs Community Managers When There's Facebook at Work?
If community managers haven't yet taken note of Facebook at Work's forceful entrance onto the enterprise social networking scene, now's the time. The product is slick and easy for end users, but its overarching strategy doesn’t align with the norms inside our industry. Editor's Note: This is the final in a three-part series Facebook at Work’s Got 99 Problems, and
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Comparing Facebook at Work to Enterprise Social Networks
Facebook at Work has roared onto the scene with a very loud battle cry that is distorting the public’s perception of what enterprise social networks are.
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Enterprise Social Evangelists: Be Very Afraid of Facebook at Work
Facebook just declared war. It’s no secret that Facebook is Goliath when it comes to personal social networking. But until recently, enterprise social software vendors and practitioners didn’t have to worry about Facebook stepping on their toes.
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Tools for the Contingent Workforce
The fundamental nature of work is changing. According to a report by Intuit, 40 percent of Americans could be contingent workers by 2020.
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Explaining Office 365's Empty Seat Phenomena
In the spring of 2013, friends and former clients at large organizations started noticing a strange phenomena. The oddity occurred when the company switched from Microsoft Office desktop to Office 365 — they found a sizable percentage of their workforce no longer used Office for their work.
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