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Carrie Basham Young issued an ominous warning to enterprise social network community managers in her 2013 CMSWire article.
“It’s time to realize that the metrics and data displayed to you inside your analytics dashboard aren't creating value, and in fact, might be causing you harm," she wrote.
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It's widely believed that one of the best ways to encourage Enterprise Social Network (ESN) adoption is for leaders to set an example.
However, research we’ve conducted over the last four years places much more emphasis on personal interest.
When working with clients to develop digital workplace strategies we often
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Jive Software announced a realignment plan Tuesday that will result in layoffs of 14 percent of its employees by the second quarter.
The 15-year-old Palo Alto, Calif.-based collaboration software company is cutting back and refocusing its efforts on the enterprise.
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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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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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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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Whether we want them or not, social collaboration tools are now standard issue in most enterprises.
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The introduction of social tools and features, such as an enterprise social network or even just commenting on intranet content, can lead to some level of nervousness amongst senior managers and those in risk functions.
In theory you can see their point. Every organization has unhappy employees.
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Dell just announced the release of Migration Manager for Enterprise Social (MMES), which it describes as the market’s first enterprise social migration solution. It's designed to help organizations move content from Jive to Yammer. Not that there’s anything wrong with Jive, Randy Rempel, senior product manager at Dell told us.
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Why does everything to do with social collaboration sound like so much work? We talk of enterprises, vast collaborative landscapes and complex user bases. For those taking the first brave steps, it can seem more of a learning cliff than a learning curve.
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A solid collaborative foundation is essential for sustained business success. But there are more tools to communicate and collaborate than ever before, which offer mixed results.
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While companies were busy evaluating the benefits of ESNs, their employees went ahead and implemented their own systems. Enterprise social networks (ESN) were born from a fusion of commercial networks like Facebook and enterprise content management systems.
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“What we really need is our own private company Instagram, or maybe a chat-app just for employees” said no reasonable manager ever.
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Experiencing dèjá vu? If the title of this article sounds vaguely familiar, you would be right. Laurence Hart's recent post, “Forget Intranets, Give Me an ESN,” deserved a rebuttal. And here it is. Intranets Have Failed.
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