How can I develop an intranet 2.0 strategy? Which tools best suit my strategy? The number of social media tools available to organizations today can be overwhelming. With your organization’s efficiency and collaboration on the line, it’s important to pick the right one. Despite their potential impact, the best social media tools are seldom chosen by organizations looking to support their unique intranet 2.0 strategies.
Join Carmine Porco, GM and VP of Client Deliverables, as he walks through several social media tools, explaining their pros and cons, their benefits to an organization, and the ideal intranet environment to support them.
Learning outcomes:
• Learn the steps to developing an intranet 2.0 strategy (where to start)
• Learn the correct methodology to choosing the right intranet 2.0 tool
• Discover which social media tools best suit your organization
• Learn how to maintain an effective intranet 2.0 environment
• See different technologies
23. Intranet 2.0 Maturity Model Present Use Market Maturity/Success Blogs Present Use as determined by Prescien’t Web 2.0 Survey Market Maturity as determined by Forresters chart Wikis Discussion Forums Instant Messaging RSS Tagging Podcasts Social Networking Video Sharing Mashups
34. "SharePoint 2010's biggest strength, its breadth of capabilities, is also its greatest weakness ," says Rob Koplowitz, principal analyst at research firm Forrester. "For companies not currently invested in SharePoint that are looking to only fulfill a basic need, like deploying a set of publicly facing blogs, the full SharePoint platform will look like a sledgehammer compared to products from companies like Socialtext, Jive, and others ." Such SaaS startups have the advantage of developing new features quicker than big companies like Microsoft and IBM can. But SaaS companies have much to fear now that Microsoft has made social tools a priority in SharePoint 2010, says Koplowitz. SaaS upstarts also have to walk the thin line of both competing with SharePoint and making their software compatible with it. Yet the fact remains: social tools are just a portion of the SharePoint platform and procuring and managing the entire SharePoint suite is a huge task. It entails license and server costs, the training of staff, providing virus protection and backup, and possibly paying for consultant help. It's worth noting that a stripped down, online version of SharePoint has been available since November 2008 and Microsoft cut prices for it in November 2009. SharePoint 2010 will come as both as an on-premises and hosted online offering. Nevertheless, if you're a company that just wants a powerful set of social networking tools, implementing the whole SharePoint suite is not a wise choice , says Koplowitz. "That's like killing a whole buffalo when all you want is a sandwich ," he adds. Shane O'Neill, CIO.com SharePoint
Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps. To that end, the folks at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team held a contest the week of Jan. 25. They invited seven start-ups known for their social networking products to come to Microsoft. The challenge: build a social networking app on SharePoint 2010 in one week. The stakes: the competitors got to present their app to a roster of venture capitalists, Fortune 500 customers and other SharePoint experts. The winner, announced Friday, Jan. 29, is Huddle Confer is the maker of a set of social apps that include microblogging and secure chat. For the competition, Confer integrated its microblogging app into SharePoint 2010. In this way, Confer bridges the gap for communicating with internal employees and external peeps, simplifying communication.
Utilizing Newsgator
Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps. To that end, the folks at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team held a contest the week of Jan. 25. They invited seven start-ups known for their social networking products to come to Microsoft. The challenge: build a social networking app on SharePoint 2010 in one week. The stakes: the competitors got to present their app to a roster of venture capitalists, Fortune 500 customers and other SharePoint experts. The winner, announced Friday, Jan. 29, is Huddle Confer is the maker of a set of social apps that include microblogging and secure chat. For the competition, Confer integrated its microblogging app into SharePoint 2010. In this way, Confer bridges the gap for communicating with internal employees and external peeps, simplifying communication.
Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps. To that end, the folks at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team held a contest the week of Jan. 25. They invited seven start-ups known for their social networking products to come to Microsoft. The challenge: build a social networking app on SharePoint 2010 in one week. The stakes: the competitors got to present their app to a roster of venture capitalists, Fortune 500 customers and other SharePoint experts. The winner, announced Friday, Jan. 29, is Huddle Confer is the maker of a set of social apps that include microblogging and secure chat. For the competition, Confer integrated its microblogging app into SharePoint 2010. In this way, Confer bridges the gap for communicating with internal employees and external peeps, simplifying communication.
Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps. To that end, the folks at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team held a contest the week of Jan. 25. They invited seven start-ups known for their social networking products to come to Microsoft. The challenge: build a social networking app on SharePoint 2010 in one week. The stakes: the competitors got to present their app to a roster of venture capitalists, Fortune 500 customers and other SharePoint experts. The winner, announced Friday, Jan. 29, is Huddle Confer is the maker of a set of social apps that include microblogging and secure chat. For the competition, Confer integrated its microblogging app into SharePoint 2010. In this way, Confer bridges the gap for communicating with internal employees and external peeps, simplifying communication.
Microsoft released the public beta of SharePoint 2010 in November. Its claim to fame is its support of rapid app development. SharePoint has become one of Microsoft's most insanely popular products and Microsoft would like to see the 2010 version become the de facto platform for custom business social apps. To that end, the folks at Microsoft's Emerging Business Team held a contest the week of Jan. 25. They invited seven start-ups known for their social networking products to come to Microsoft. The challenge: build a social networking app on SharePoint 2010 in one week. The stakes: the competitors got to present their app to a roster of venture capitalists, Fortune 500 customers and other SharePoint experts. The winner, announced Friday, Jan. 29, is Huddle Confer is the maker of a set of social apps that include microblogging and secure chat. For the competition, Confer integrated its microblogging app into SharePoint 2010. In this way, Confer bridges the gap for communicating with internal employees and external peeps, simplifying communication.
Cortex Intelligence's market intelligence app allows SharePoint 2010 users to pull-in data from external sources as SharePoint Web Parts. Web Parts are server-side controls that run inside special pages in an ASP.NET application or a Windows SharePoint Services site. The Cortex app can draw in quantitative market data, perform text mining on news articles and top it all off with qualified social media data. Cortex' SharePoint Web Parts also integrate with SharePoint's collaboration features, enabling users to share, discuss and act on the insights triggered by the market intelligence.
Thousands of businesses globally use Huddle's cloud-based workspaces to mange projects, share information, collaborate on content and run meetings with teams outside the firewall. With Huddle for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, enterprise teams can invite external users into their daily workflow and synchronize their SharePoint document libraries with content stored on the Huddle network, or even on other SharePoint sites. SharePoint users can also gain access to their files through Huddle's online, mobile and desktop applications.