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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last month’s Social Media Forum sent my mind into overdrive with possibilities. Here are a few ideas I’ve been thinking about, some older than others..! 1. Internal bloggingBeen doing this for nearly two years now and it’s gaining ground. You’ll need to invest time and effort to find the right technology, but don’t go for [...]
