Social media in the workplace

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Comment by Chris Hewitt on December 13, 2009 at 12:57pm

I work for a part of the NHS which specialises in IT solutions for the whole NHS which is ironic given that our intranet seems so outdated. Now I'm looking to introduce social business software but the ICT clan wants to protect its Microsoft stack and move to Sharepoint 2010. I am far from convinced this would be the best move and have been looking closely at Jive SBS and an open source platform called cyn.in. Anyone got any experience/views around these considerations?

Comment by Carolyn Ray on September 9, 2009 at 10:46pm

Hi everyone, Just wanted to let you know about an IABC International Conference on Employee Communications in Toronto Oct 22-23. I'm co-presenting about dialogue, social media and internal communications with Jennifer Rock from Best Buy (US) who is done amazing things to engage employees. Program is http://www.iabc.com/education/ec/index.htm. I also invite you to visit www.national.ca/startthedialogue to read about our study on social media as the #1 trend in internal communications. Would love your thoughts and feedback! Thanks!

Comment by Lee White on September 3, 2008 at 10:50am

:-P

Comment by Lee White on September 3, 2008 at 10:49am

Suggestion for a alternate photo for this group:

Comment by Lee White on September 3, 2008 at 10:45am

I think there is a great case to be made linking the use of social web tools in the enterprise and employee engagement. I just posted this to my blog, which by the way is targeted more at the Enterprise 2.0 folks than the audience here, but I think that allying these two groups can have great outcomes.

Comment by David Zinger on August 27, 2008 at 5:53pm

Here is a 42 minute video presentation of Clay Shirky presenting on his book Here Comes Everybody. I love the main premise: Group Action Just Got Easier. I believe this means a lot for engagement.

Comment by Eric Brown on June 30, 2008 at 9:08pm

Denise - Great thought. I agree wholeheartedly. Many leaders today are so focused on their 'area of expertise', they forget to stop and look around and see if there are other / better ways of getting the job done.

Comment by Denise O'Berry on June 30, 2008 at 8:07pm

Social media is just another method / channel for engaging the people in the workplace. It may not be appropriate for all companies.

The resistance begins with the people in leadership positions today. Many of them made their way up the ladder because of their technical competencies - what they were good at. In the past, and sadly continuing today. most organizations don't prepare their leaders to lead or manage. The leaders are "too busy" doing the wrong things so of course they don't want to embrace another method for strengthening the employee relationship and improving employee engagement.

Until we shift the leadership in an organization to the correct focus area, they will continue to resist. Once they are focused on what they should be doing, getting them to embrace new tools won't be as big of an issue.

Comment by Jon Hoel on June 29, 2008 at 12:26am

Just in case anyone's wondering, I'm not connected with Manager Tools podcast - just a fan!