Think Communities, Not Portals! [PMP Insights]

Think Communities, Not Portals! « PMP Insights
Posted by Rich Blank, November 29, 2010

If you are planning your SharePoint 2010 upgrade and looking at redesigning the hundreds of intranet sites — stop right there! Don’t redesign, rethink your corporate intranet.

It’s time to break away from the traditional thinking of intranet “portals” and design a collaborative infrastructure around a complete “community model”. If you compare a community to the traditional portal, you may think it’s just a matter of semantics. However, the concept of a portal is a push relationship as someone is pushing content to you. Communities are social, interactive, dynamic, and provide a context for individuals to subscribe, collaborate and contribute to. Communities source information from the bottom up as well as the top down. Communities have a pull relationship — meaning the community pulls on users to contribute and users pull on the community to consume. The fact is that every piece of content and every person in your organization is part of some community whether you realize it or not. The largest and most open community is everyone in your organization and there are likely hundreds or thousands of sub-communities. Communities also provide a degree of openness in your organization. So if the information you wish to share has more defined security requirements, that’s when you manage it in a secure team site as opposed to a community.

Let’s face it — for many of us Facebook is our “portal” on the public internet and something we visit 1 or more times a day because it’s social and relevant to us personally. LinkedIn may be your “portal” into your professional life and network. Do you really need a traditional hierarchy of intranet sites and portals? Or is it more important to capture, share, and collaborate on information within the context of a community?

Google forsøgte at købe Twitter - Tech & mobil

Google og Microsoft kjemper om å kjøpe Twitter. Hvem vinner?
Google forsøgte at købe Twitter - Tech & mobil

Hvis man skal tro den amerikanske nyhedstjeneste Business Insider, så har Google tidligere i år tilbudt at købe Twitter for et sted mellem 2,5 og 4 milliarder dollar.

Både Google og Microsoft kan være interesseret i at købe Twitter for at forhindre den respektive modpart i at gøre det samme. Det kan betyde at de to selskaber vil fremsætte nye, højere tilbud for at snuppe Twitter for næsen af konkurrenten. Men meldingen om at Twitter ser de fire milliarder dollar som en ”fornærmelse” indikerer, at der skal langt flere penge på bordet hvis det sociale netværk skal skifte ejer.

Fascinating Social Media Facts of Year 2010 | Social Media Today

Fascinating Social Media Facts of Year 2010

Social media is not just a social instrument of communication. It is not all about people sharing ideas and thoughts with other people. It is the creation and exchange of ‘User Generated Content’. The ability to transform broadcast media monologues into a social media dialogues that spread, sometimes, faster and wider than television, radio or print. Social Media when compared to year 2009 shows a fantastic growth in terms of people participation, penetration, user-ability, business and more.

Now, we are almost at the end of year 2010, and therefore it is time to study and understand some of the Social Media facts and trends that were evolved and followed over the year. Scouting through the web has brought together the following list of Fascinating Social Media Facts. Most of these facts are based on surveys (online or offline) over a sample size, these are also mentioned to ensure that we get the perspective of each of these facts.

Webinar Invitation - Picking the right Intranet Platform

Invitation to attend a Webinar about picking the right Intranet Platform
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/You-re-Invited-to-a-Webinar.html?soid=1000807837029&aid=KdwQwkJuKWg

Intern kommunkation skal ud over rampen (My.IntraTeam.dk)

Publiceret 10 nov. 2010 - 13:36 af Anette Wittenberg.

På IntraTeams ”Creative Communication” konference i juni talte Steve Crescenzo om nødvendigheden af at forbedre den interne kommunikation på intranettet og i personaleblade. Skåret over en kam er mange virksomheders interne kommunikation uopfindsom, kedelig og uden reel værdi.
Les mer her:

Intern kommunkation skal ud over rampen My.IntraTeam.dk

Jive Social Intranet

The message is the same again and again!
Social Intranet is about putting people in the center, and then...
Connect - Collaborate - Innovate

Are Nets ready for this?

Using Social Media for job recruitment?

Could Nets have the advantage of using channels like LinkedIn, YouTube, and even Facebook as part of a recruitment strategy?

Job opportunities via LinkedIn

This is one practical example of using a LinkedIn Group for recruitment.

Every time I log on to my LinkedIn profile, I see job postings from many businesses. Could Nets be the next company on this list?

Job opportunities via YouTube

Here is one exciting example of using YouTube as a channel for video announcement of two special job possitions.

Job opportunities via Facebook

Here is a couple of Facebook Wall advertisements regarding job opportunities.

One is from the Danish company Podio on their own Facebook Wall.

And another one from a Salesforce customer announcing on Salesforce Facebook Wall.

Intranet Garden Video Blog - October 11, 2010

From Intranet Garden Video Blog - October 11, 2010
This month Paul Miller speaks about issues he's uncovering as he begins to write his book 'The Digital Workplace'.
Interesting observations about how the future workplace is influenced by Social Media!

Intranet Feedback Functionality