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Collaboration: It’s Not About Technology, It’s About the Culture

November 21, 2010
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| Categories: Collaboration, Employee portals, Google Docs, Micro-blogging, micro-messaging, Salesforce, Sharepoint, Socialcast, Socialtext, Technology, Tools, Webex, Windows Live SkyDrive, Workplace, Yammer, Zoho

I got a chance to talk about how companies can use technology internally to collaborate and share more effectively. I started with examining what’s currently in use in organizations.Email is the most commonly used collaborative tool. Unfortunately it is also perhaps the worst tool for open collaboration in an organization. You can only collaborate with people you send the email to. And the information is then trapped in email inboxes of people who were communicating with each other, with no access to others. The information isn’t shared beyond the people…

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Measuring Micro-blogging Adoption

November 17, 2009
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| Categories: Measurement, Micro-blogging, Microlearning, Workplace Learning, Yammer

Here are the parameters I am using to measure adoption of corporate micro-blogging. Number of members on the serviceTotal messagesPeople with at least one message% People with at least one messagePeople contributed 80% of messages% People contributed 80% of messagesStill don't have a strong business case to take to my CEO for spending money on it.

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First 5 Steps to Get Started with Corporate Micro-blogging

November 12, 2009
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| Categories: Microlearning, Tips, Workplace Learning, Yammer

“Okay, I am on Yammer. What next?” That’s the question most new users to corporate micro-blogging ask. As I wrote earlier about my experiments with micro-blogging in corporate environment, one of the challenges in micro-learning adoption is training. A lot of your colleagues may have joined your corporate micro-blogging network but that’s no guarantee of participation. This may have to do with folks not really knowing what to do next after signing up for the service. Here’s what I suggest you do after signing up for your micro-blogging service: Set…

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Yammer Adds Outlook Plugin

September 15, 2009
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| Categories: Microlearning, Workplace Learning, Yammer

I wrote in my experiences with micro-learning in corporate environment that one of the challenges to micro-learning environment is the competition it faces from email and IM. Well, Yammer has released a new Outlook plugin. The plugin adds a Yammer pane inside the Outlook window, integrating Yammer with one of the most used application in the enterprise. Looks like an interesting and enticing move. Will this help in micro-learning’s adoption? Wait and watch…

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Experiences with Micro-learning in Corporate Environment

August 21, 2009
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| Categories: Learning, Microlearning, Twitter, Workplace Learning, Yammer

After trying out Twitter for some time, I started experimenting with Yammer sometime early this year. I would say we are still in the experimentation phase with micro-learning. I started with sending some invites and broadcasted some messages. It was a slow start with me invite some colleagues and then the pace picking up quickly as the joining went viral. People invited other colleagues and the membership soon grew (we now have more than 90 people on our Yammer network). Messages started to flow. The Yammer platform was used to…

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