Social Intranet

The Social Intranet is focused on sharing information and helping people engage with each other. Shared information includes official policies as well as user-generated content (i.e., blogs). It empowers people inside and outside the organization to connect with one another, making business more efficient.

The goal is to provide social features that encourage users to interact and share their knowledge with others.

But it is not just social in a way social networks are: Features like blogs, wikis and the expert finder will help you bring corporate knowledge into one central place, making it easier for everyone to keep up with the latest developments in your organization.

Highlights Expert Finder Metadata Communities and Workgroups Personal Profile pages Corporate-YouTube (video streaming) Suggestion System and Social Voting

Benefits

Break down information silos by delegating administration so departments that own and manage information can keep it updated on their own. This reduces the number of steps involved in gathering information and completing projects, and eliminates the need to involve IT for every change.

Connect people with information - in context - by filtering the information that is relevant to users at a specific point in time. It emphasizes the importance of sharing knowledge and the interaction of users, making both official and user-generated information transparent and available.

Collect and leverage knowledge by providing a space where knowledge is extracted, posted and built upon. Your organization can become more efficient, with employees accelerating deliverables through creating best practices and eliminating double effort.

Increase the relevance and value of information by personalizing the delivery of content. The advanced search capabilities save users time and ensure that the user's experience is always up-to-date. Updates are passed to all users faster, and you have confidence that they are working with current data.

Make information available throughout the organization, keeping all employees informed and giving them access to the same content.

Optimize information distribution by configuring the best possible delivery in order to maximize efficacy as well as velocity in retrieval, storage and execution.

Create and distribute information to the right audience by targeting relevant content to each of the organization's employees.

Make the right information available to the right people by providing only content that is relevant to the user, needed to perform their role in the organization.

Accelerate the identification of business experts by using the knowledge platform as a communication hub, as well as by accessing the centrally located work-related group tools and applications.

Adapt to the new ways people communicate by integrating today's social and media capabilities, including YouTube, WebEx and Facebook. You can apply today's culture of communication and integrate it with the way people do business.

Encourage employees to become more active, making suggestions that impact the organization, by creating an environment where users can express their input and knowledge based on expertise and familiarity with topics. This helps introduce meaningful changes within the organization.

Make work environments more personal by enabling users to connect based on similar interests or to become more familiar with a user they work with.

Enable the creation of communities to share and collaborate by giving users the ability to form a destination that is focused by topic, function or task. Users can see what communities other users belong to, and decide to join, if allowed. Users inside and outside the organization can join communities.