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Social Intranets
by Caroline Cornell, contributing author
Related Resources provides additional articles and resources for understanding this month's topic of social intranets. You can also find these links alongside the corresponding feature article for quick reference.
Note: The following links are not associated with or commissioned by IABC.
::6 Variables of Social Intranet Adoption
Dom Crincoli
To benefit the most from your social intranet, you have to ensure that your employees are using it and that your intranet is in fact social. Engaged employees, leadership involvement and social media guidelines that help protect intranet collaboration are essential in embedding social intranets into company culture.
::The Social Intranet Is Growing: What are you doing about it?
Julian Mills
Convincing senior leadership to adopt Web 2.0 tools may require introducing those tools first at the departmental level, creating and presenting a social intranet governance model, and gathering and presenting as many statistics on intranet and social media usage as possible.
::Understanding How to Create a Successful Social Intranet: 3 tips for optimizing collaboration
Callie Jones
Though social tools are ingrained in the daily lives of most employees outside of work, many companies are reluctant to introduce these types of tools into their intranets. Gaining the support of leadership and identifying a group that will govern the new intranet and its policies will help gain support for a intranet.
::9 Intranet Content Types that Add Value to Your Organization
Andrew Wright
The most valuable intranets are those that make it easier for employees to do their jobs. Important types of content for your intranet include how-to documents, reference materials and discussion forums.
::10 Ways to Extend the Reach of Your Intranet
Jonathan Phillips
Instead of expecting employees to make the effort to access the intranet on their own, companies must bring the intranet to employees by finding ways to incorporate it into their daily routines.
::Top 10 Must-Haves for Every Good Social Intranet
Sean R. Nicholson
To be a success, social intranets must have meaningful content, opportunities for collaboration and an effective design that makes it easy for employees to find information.
::Social Intranets: Enterprises grapple with social change
Dion Hinchcliffe
Transforming an intranet into a social intranet will not only result in easier access to resources and enterprise information, but can result in your intranet serving as a new resource for creative ideas and collaboration.
::Reverse Innovation of Intranets in Global Companies
James Robertson
Delivering an effective intranet for a global company is not easy. Many organizations are discovering that alongside their top-down intranet improvements, teams should seek out innovations from staff in local offices.
::Creating a Social Intranet Where Employees Can Learn, Plan and Do
Elizabeth Lupfer
Intranets that are social are able to extend beyond being merely a portal, and are able foster an engaging workforce and environment.
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