Today’s intranet software allow co-workers in different locations to meet in a virtual meeting room. Problem is, meetings — including virtual ones — can take up a lot of time and end up being unproductive. Not being able to see each other can make things worse, because we don’t know when someone is not really […]
Although we may have a host of communication and collaboration tools in the enterprise, such as those provided by a social intranet, email will always be the business communication tool of choice — for certain purposes. The misuse and abuse of internal email, however, causes us to waste precious time, energy and office resources, not
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Is your intranet all work and no play? Is it strictly business, with no room for humor or plain fun? If your goal is to increase productivity, then you’d want to rethink the flavor of your intranet. I’m currently reading “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance
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Social intranets benefit the enterprise by facilitating communication. The ability to connect with others through the intranet reduces our reliance on email which tends to be slower and less effective than tools like instant messaging and microblogs. Besides, we lose a significant amount of time and productivity every day, because we have to process so
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If you need to collect and share contacts information in your intranet, Noodle comes with a ready-to-use address book. Watch this video to see how to add and use the address book application: See Noodle In Action Click here to request a custom demo of Noodle intranet software.
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If your office intranet allows you to create a profile, I suggest you fill it in as as well as you can. Just like in social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, profiles are usually the starting point of connections in an intranet. This blog post explores why.
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Are you hesitant to write an internal blog, because you’re worried of being seen as having too much time on your hands? Unfortunately, despite internal blogging’s role in increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in the workplace, there is an impression that only those who are not busy enough at their jobs, blog. This is a
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Lack of participation is one of the main problems of intranets. A good way to increase intranet participation is by understanding what motivates people to participate in the first place. In the AIIM white paper, “When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done,” Bert Sandie, Director of Technical Excellence at the Electronic Arts University, sites
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I read with much interest a discussion in LinkedIn among members of the Intranet Professionals group. The discussion revolved around a question posed by Luc de Ruijter: What are the 3 main reasons users cannot find the content they were looking for on the intranet? The answers pointed to factors in the intranet technology and
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We’re all familiar with email spam — those unwanted email messages that fill our inboxes and waste our precious time. But did you know a significant chunk of that email spam is coming from inside our company, from our co-workers and even our bosses? In fact, internal spam can be even more insidious than external
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