Spending too long inside one organisation can distort your view of reality. I like to keep my feet on the ground by meeting people from other organisations and listening to them talk about their intranets and attitudes to social media. If nothing else, listening to people talk about their KM experiences at events like Gurteen [...]
I spent Monday morning at the first half of Coporate Social Networking 2009 at RIBA listening to a variety of speakers talking about the impact of social networking on the way we work. I hadn’t encountered Niall Cook of Hill and Knowlton before, but I agreed with much of what he had to say. He [...]
A nice story about internal social networking with Connect from British American Tobacco’s intranet: Connect – joining up the business and keeping up with the times Six months on from its revamp, Connect, our employee directory and social networking tool is basking in the glow of statistics that demonstrate its incredible success throughout the Group. [...]
“Connect, collaborate, innovate” has been our KM team’s tagline – I hesitate to call it a strategy – for the past four or five years and although we’ve been quick to experiment with some of the same social media tools – social networking and blogging – as IBM, we’re more than used to following in [...]
We’ve received a lot of advice for improving Connect since we added the networking component earlier this year. We’re now planning the next version, so here are the main contenders: a ‘wall’ for messages (like Facebook) some way of getting around the replication delay when invites are sent an optional message when you invite a [...]
Here’s a story recently run on ragan.com about our experiences implementing Connect, a corporate social networking tool.
The recent update of our Connect tool has increased usage by a factor of ten, though there is plenty of scope to improve further. More than three times as many people used Connect in July as used it in the previous month. And they looked at ten times as many user profiles. But the current [...]
The Knowledge Management Team have spent three weeks trialling our internal networking tool Connect among people we invited to connect with us. Each week we’ve seen an increase in the number of users, visits and page views, an increase in the average length of each visit and an increase in the number of people updating [...]
Last week saw the final seven days of the Connect trial, with visits climbing again by nearly 25% to 2944, while page views increased by over 30% to just under 25,000. A total of 1584 people used Connect in the week before the official launch. We managed to get most kinks sorted out before Internal [...]
Week three of our Connect trial and there’s another increase in Connect use: nearly 20% more visits and nearly 25% more page views. There are nearly 400 connections between people and best of all, nearly 1,800 people have updated their Connect record. This week internal communications are publicising Connect, making the release official. There will [...]
