In this, the final post on our current topic, Microsoft’s new Office 365 Customer Success Center on the web, the writer spends sometime discussing the “Communities” section of the site. The previous three posts provided readers with: an introduction to the Center and a look at the Scenarios section a deeper dive into the “Resources” […]
On the importance of Yammer groups and the need for formal planning to ensure their success
Two videos in a new set of video training content exclusively available to anyone with a subscription to SharePoint-Videos will likely be worth a review for any stakeholder in a plan to implement enterprise social computing via Yammer and SharePoint Online, Office 365. The title of this video tutorial set is SP 13-317 – Making […]
SharePoint-Videos Adds a Set of Video Tutorials on the Necessity of Enterprise Social
Subscribers to SharePoint-Videos can now learn about Yammer and how the availability of this online service is changing what can be done with social computing within a SharePoint computing environment. All of this information is included in a set of video tutorials led by Naomi Moneypenney, CTO of Synxi, titled Making Enterprise Social Real in […]
Are SharePoint Social Features a Useful Method of Motivating Users to Increase Adoption?
As a report titled SharePoint 2013 Clouding the Issues, which was published by AIIM, points out, despite the popularity of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Document Management (DM) applications for large organizations using SharePoint, 26% of respondents reported very low usage of the platform by so-called “active users” — only 1 in 5 users in […]
On Newsfeeds Features in SharePoint 2013
Newsfeeds in SharePoint 2013 have been enhanced. The site newsfeed feature is easier to use, which improves its suitability as a useful feature to drive SharePoint adoption. For example, the site newsfeed is searchable; therefore, it makes sense for members of a team site to post questions to one another via the site newsfeed, rather […]
Collaboration Across Enterprise SharePoint gets Sticky with KZO Innovation’s Business Video Offering
Unearthing legitimate, useful applications for collaboration, through social media features, for global business and other large organizations over SharePoint has been a difficult task. Nevertheless, as applications have evolved, social media capabilities, like group ratings and group comments, seem to be delivering meaningful value for global businesses over enterprise implementations of SharePoint. We’ve written earlier […]
Implications of Failing to Become a Social Enterprise for Global Companies
The Digital Landfill column of AIIM published 8 Tips for Transforming SharePoint into a Social Business Hub on December 1, 2011. We were struck by the following observation from this column: “Two thirds of global companies with annual sales of $1 billion or more are failing to become social enterprises, according to CapGemini Consulting global […]
Get Social with NewsGator for SharePoint
Social Sites® for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 from NewsGator has been very well received by leading SharePoint analysts. As recently as Thursday of this week, November 17, 2011, David F. Carr wrote for Information Week, The Brainyard, that a product like Social Sites® from NewsGator transforms SharePoint “into a satisfying corporate social network”. Social Sites® includes […]