Animating Your Intranet Search
We recently launched a new web site for Intranet Connections to go along with our latest social release and our creative team dreamed up this 90 second animated video, designed to introduce Intranet Connections to prospective Intranet Managers. A big thank you to Desaign: Explaining ideas through animation for helping us with our vision. What do you think about using animation as an interesting and unique way to educate and learn?
Simple but Powerful Ways to use Social Tools on the Intranet
Social collaboration is a hot button topic when it comes to intranets, although for many organizations it can be a tough sell. Here are a few points to consider when thinking about dipping the proverbial toe into the tidal wave of social and how you can potentially get buy-in from your decision makers. First we’ll start with how social tools including our new Facebook-like message walls empower employees and benefits the intranet and your company: 1) Social tools gives employees easy to use and familiar tools that allows them to participate, contribute and connect with each other – and they need to be on the intranet to do so 2) You can expand the collective knowledge and intelligence of your company by offering tools that promote the concept of people helping people There is a third benefit that lends power and influence in adopting social tools on your intranet: 3) Employee’s ability to raise the profile and significance of intranet content by sharing links to documents, training courses, KB articles, blog posts, e-forms, and other intranet content on their walls Next up is one idea for how social tools on your intranet can impact your decision makers. Imagine that the CEO has a top inner circle of executives and that is who they impart their message to. That inner circle communicates directives down to their own inner circle and the fountain of knowledge trickles its way throughout the company and employees – with 100 different ways for that message to be filtered. The above scenario will still prevail. Social tools are not going to replace this but what if the CEO could cut to the chase and post select information onto their intranet message wall, effectively giving voice directly to the employees. And then receive feedback in the same manner.
Now envision how that messaging could impact the employees and the culture of your company, not to mention the visibility of your intranet. Someone untouchable, the CEO of the company, is now approachable and can connect and mentor at the level of each employee. Simple but powerful. Check out the article on CMSWire featuring our Intranet Connections Social Directory and Message Walls Try our new Social Directory and Message Walls with the Intranet Connections Free 30 day Trial or take a tour People Helping People: Social Intranet Software by Intranet Connections
At Intranet Connections, we feel that connecting and empowering your employees through a social intranet leads to having a more engaged and productive team. With a social intranet you can reach out to your coworkers to share business tools, ask questions and learn from one another. Our new Employee Directory introduces social profiles that embrace collaboration and social tools which allows employees to better communicate, connect and learn from each other. Take a look inside Intranet Connections new Social Directory: Rich Social Profiles Rich social profiles make finding contact information and connecting with colleagues simple. Employees can connect and engage with each other through message walls; follow colleagues to get quick information about coworkers; update their status to show their whereabouts; and set subscriptions to receive automatic alerts. Customizable widgets and bookmarks allow you to select which content you want to receive to keep you informed about information that caters to you. Personalize your “workspace” with skills and tags that add value to your role within the organization. Message Walls Similar to Facebook, posting and sharing on our employee walls is easy. You can embed video, quick links to documents, news, events, community pages or other intranet content; give kudos to a team member, or post a challenge that you need advice on. Message walls foster communication between employees and your executives by allowing them to publicly share knowledge and gather feedback from the organization.
Follow Colleagues Follow colleagues to help you organize who you connect with. The colleague activity feed allows you to monitor a feed of wall posts and conversations from your colleagues. Follow colleagues that you work closely with for better collaboration or connect with your peer in a different office. Ask questions and tap the knowledge of your peers to better serve customers. The ability to follow colleague’s means that you can keep up-to-date on contributions they make to wall conversations. Status Updates Now you can keep everyone in the know with Status Updates. Status updates tell everyone, at a glance, what projects people are working on, if they are in a meeting, at a conference, working from home, or on vacation. You have the flexibility to update your status as often as you like to keep everyone in the know about your whereabouts.
Does your company rely heavily on email? Online chat provides a quick way to ask questions in a private one-on–one conversation with a colleague or team member to reduce back and forth emails. You can easily find out the status of a project or organize a last minute meeting with online chat. Employee Tagging In the Social Employee Directory you can choose to tag information about people, which then groups them based on the tag. For example, you may choose to tag employees “Toastmasters” who are skilled in public speaking. Or you could tag employees involved mentoring, training or have specific technical knowledge. Employee tagging is available site wide so that you can quickly search someone’s profile or use the “TAGS” filter to categorize what you are looking for.
A social intranet is a tool for people to help each other. To learn how you can leverage our new social intranet tools to work for your organization, take a tour or watch our recorded webinar.
Connect Employees to Management with a Social Intranet
How well do you know the CEO of your organization? Are they frequently on the road or are they in an entirely different office? A social intranet is a great tool to connect employees to management. An executive can use the social intranet to set the cultural tone of the company and to inform employees about organizational plans. The CEO has the power to be social and share social things. Put a face to a name and make an executive presence on your intranet. Open yourself up to questions and comments from employees. They are the ones working for you, after all. An executive can use the intranet to announce new clients and mergers, share information about product releases and expand on important internal updates from various departments. Here are 5 ways an executive can promote employee adoption and engagement on your intranet:
Get your CEO connected with social tools on your intranet so they can use it as a platform to portray their vision of what the company is working towards. Takeaway: Remind employees about the goals of your organization using your intranet. Build trust within workplace communities on your intranet and share the information with the social tools available to you. How are your executives involved in encouraging the use of your intranet? Register for a live Intranet Connections Webinar today!
KidStart: Coaching Kids for the Game of Life
In early December, the Intranet Connections team had an afternoon to help the 150+ families in need at KidStart, a local prevention and diversion program for kids age 6+. Our team built food hampers for the families of children that are mentored in this program, and while doing so, we had the opportunity to learn about this one-on-one mentoring program that’s been running strong for over 20 years. KidStart encourages young people to develop their own interests, support learning & skill-building and open doors for them to participate in community life. In the program, volunteers are brought on board to develop a positive relationship with the youth and engage in activities that promote success and achievement. KidStart is a wonderful organization, and they need volunteers! If you would like to inquire about volunteering at KidStart, please visit their volunteer page.
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