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Highlights of Day 2 at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris

Day 2 at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris brought some great panel discussions and interactive roundtable sessions. The opening session started with Nicolas Rolland (@NicolasROLLAND) of Danone and Jerome Colombe (@sYsIphe) of Alcatel-Lucent talking about Models for Social Business Transformation. One of the challenges that Danone face is how do they connect with all of [...]

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Highlights of Day 1 at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris

This week Paris is hosting the Enterprise 2.0 Summit bringing together experts from across Europe and the World sharing their experiences of social media adoption. The opening keynote from Rawn Shah of IBM (@rawn) and Yves Caseau of Bouygues Telecom tackled the challenge of how the use of social tools creates value in the Enterprise. [...]

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Building a Rock Star Community Team

One of my favourite parts of day 3 of Enterprise 2.0 – Santa Clara was the talk “Building a Rock Star Community Team” from Bill Johnston (@billjohnston) Director of Global Online Communities at Dell and Dawn Lacallade (@dawnl). Bill and Dawn pulled on their experiences of running global community strategies and gave real world key [...]

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How a UK Housing Association’s Internal Communication was Transformed Using Collaboration Tools

The blogging and collaboration tools on Affinity Sutton’s intranet have resulted in huge user adoption from all levels of the 1,500 staff within the organisation UK wide. Before changing their intranet software provider in 2007, Affinity Sutton’s internal communication relied heavily on bulk emails, leading to large knowledge silo’s within the company. So when they [...]

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Importance of having reasons to collaborate online

Being able to demonstrate the purpose and benefits of online collaboration will help people choose to adopt newer, faster, ways of working. If we design and build our intranets around our company’s objectives we’ll be able to establish that the intranet supports the business. Demonstrating the purpose of the content, widgets, features and functions of [...]

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Is your intranet encouraging collaboration? 10 easy steps to get collaboration started

You have heard a lot of people talk about ‘the social intranet’, ‘internal collaboration’ and ‘enterprise 2.0′ and many internal comms executives, intranet managers and HR teams have tried to set up business oriented forums, blogs and status updates.  The success rate is sporadic but those who get it right will reap massive benefits and [...]

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We take an in-depth look at The Intranet Management Handbook, by Martin White

When we heard Martin White – Managing Director of information management and intranet management consultancy, Intranet Focus Ltd was releasing a new book called ‘The Intranet Management Handbook’ we couldn’t wait to read the latest addition to his portfolio of publications. After Martin very kindly sent a couple of copies of the book to the [...]

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Top 12 Intranet Blog Posts of 2010 Written by Intranet Managers and Independent Consultants

2010 was a really interesting year in the world of intranets, and a lot of people posted some great blog posts about intranet best practice and trends.  So we thought we’d start 2011 by looking back at 2010 and list some of our favourite intranet blog posts written by Intranet Managers and Independent Consultants. After [...]

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Interact Forms Two Great New Partnerships

As part of the continued expansion of the Interact Intranet Partner Program we’re extremely pleased to announce two new partnerships with Noko Ltd and J2 Interactive Ltd as Approved Implementers of Interact Intranet. Noko plan, deliver and support successful web projects that have content management, collaboration and social business at their core. They’re experts in [...]

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Hot Topics at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Santa Clara 2010

Nigel Danson, CEO & Founder of Interact, takes time out from the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Santa Clara to talk about some of this year’s hot topics.

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