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Over course of his career, Ted Sapountzis has worn many technology hats including analyst, strategist, angel investor and sales head, all of which inform his current role as marketer.
After working for companies including iCharts, McKinsey, SABRE and SAP, Sapountzis joined Simpplr as vice president of marketing earlier this year.
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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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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my intranet. Prepare to die. We turn today to the silver screen to see what lessons information management professionals might learn from a classic Hollywood comedy.
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Enterprise Social Networks (ESNs) have become commonplace in organizations, creating networks based on a need and identifying experts who can solve a problem. ESNs can overcome barriers of location, language and time zone.
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Sure it's OK to check Facebook or send a personal text while at work. That is, if you can find the time between keeping up on Yammer, collaborating over Skype and shoveling through the 125 emails the average office worker receives daily.
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Just as Microsoft blends Yammer into Office365, a startup is offering a free service to add a Facebook-like collaboration tool to any web page. Lifestreams Technologies, a 2-year-old company based in New Haven, Conn.
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All told, it was a 30-month project that began with a request: Improve the intranet. So National Geographic did just that for its employees -- and got some international recognition in the process.
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A Facebook meets Jive for techies -- that’s one of the ways to describe a new social and collaboration platform targeted at technology pros that launches in public beta this week.
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In this age of digital everything, at what point do workers get overwhelmed? A new survey suggests that US employees may be approaching the tipping point. The survey, The State of Workplace Productivity Report from talent management app provider Cornerstone OnDemand in collaboration with global insights firm Kelton, looks at
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SharePoint conquered the enterprise intranet. Although the conquest was never as bloody nor expensive as more invasive conquests, such as the Mongols under Genghis Khan, intranet citizens are not always thrilled by the new system and structure under Gates Khan.
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In a truly social enterprise, social requires more than just a Facebook page and Twitter account; you need to live and breathe social, inside and out. Anyone can Tweet, but creating a truly social intranet requires incredible commitment, change management and intelligent execution.
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Lately I've noticed how some people seem very eager to question the need for social intranets or who claim, leaning on recent research showing low numbers in adoption and value generated by social technologies, that due to various reasons social networking and collaboration just cannot happen inside organizations.
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The Best Customer Experience New research from Forrester has determined that good customer experience trumps price when it comes to creating loyal customers. While you can't ignore price, make sure you are meeting the customer's needs first. The Real Value of a Social Intranet Social Intranets support the creation
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If traditional intranets are killing your company, what can revive it? In Why Traditional Intranets Are Killing Your Company, I explained that traditional communication and collaboration tools often hinder high performance, rather than help give it a boost.
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