The publicity for last night’s London Area Communicators’ Group October Meetup was intriguing: based around social networking, it would take place in Clerkenwell Theatre and feature a group of actors. Unsurprisingly given such novelty, it filled up quickly. Arriving early after an energising stroll up from the Thames, I was greeted warmly at the door [...]
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. [...]
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 two of Connect passed without a major setback – which was good, because Simon was on holiday. We’re getting some feedback on the manageability of the homepage (no, you can’t turn off the feed once you’ve activated it – the genie is out of the bottle, there is no going back!), so we’ve reduced [...]
Success story number one: just had an e-mail from a colleague wanting to know more about the work I’m doing setting up a site for the group’s internal employee survey. She read my Connect status update.
It’s a week into our experiment with internal (“not-social”) networking system Connect, so I was interested to see whether people were using it. To test the application is available globally I’ve connected to people around the world, leading one colleague to dub me the Lily Allen of Interact. While a few of my contacts have [...]
I’ve been thinking of the need for RSS in the organisation recently. It hasn’t been pressing, but now we have a feed on the homepage, it would be nice to control and customise it. The other idea I picked up at KCUK 2008 last week was Enterprise bookmark sharing – just upload from the browser [...]
Our Facebook-style internal networking system is now live and looks like proving successful. I’ve invited a bunch of geographically-distributed people to connect with me and already they’re starting to invite others to connect with them. The feed on the central pane of the homepage is tracking updates – connections and changes to profiles. Predictably, many [...]
