Most organisations seem to have adopted intranets for communication and collaboration, but how should an organisation’s intranet support its knowledge management activities? From communities of practice to blogging and ultimately internal social networking, it’s something I’ve grappled with over the past eight years – trying, failing and hopefully learning at each stage of development. It’s a [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Got an hour? Here’s an entertaining Australian TV programme about networks and the theory of six degrees of separation (AKA Stanley Milgram’s small world experiment): “How Kevin Bacon Cured Cancer“ Thanks to Anecdote.com.au for the tip.
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 [...]
