How to make SharePoint Friendly Social? Overview Attini from Wilco Turnhout on Vimeo.

Can SharePoint be Social? Yes of course it can. Pause for a moment and study how Sita and his team at Collier’s are creating one of the most prolific SharePoint Social sites in the Global 1000.

How to go beyond social media lip service and integrate it more deeply into the fabric of a modern intranet.

A summary of the “Global Intranet Trends”-Survey done by Jane McConell [german].

[S]ocial media bullshitters have no knowledge of social theory or methodology. Trust a person who provides no easy answer, who carefully selects their research method, and who understands complex concepts.

Sam Ladner – Detecting Social Media Bullshit: A Sociologist’s View

Microsoft LookingGlass Video Demo by Microsoft Advertising is a neat proof of concept for Social Media Monitoring. And it’s built on SharePoint.

An interview with Craig Hepburn about social media approaches at OpenText.

A rundown of the main Do’s and Dont’s when designing social software. Related:

• The Designing Social Interfaces Companion Wiki.

Intel IT has deployed an enterprise-wide social computing platform that combines professional networking tools with social media such as wikis and blogs, and integrates with existing enterprise software. Read how Intel IT transformed collaboration across Intel while addressing top business challenges such as helping employees to find relevant information and expertise more quickly, breaking down silos; attracting and retaining new employees; and capturing the tacit knowledge of mature employees.

• Notes on Designing a Good User Interface
• UI Pattern Documentation Review
• 15 Effective Tools for Visual Knowledge Management
• It’s official: boring powerpoint decks are better
• Open Source Web Design
• Laddering: A Research Interview Technique for Uncovering Core Values
• Are user stories an alternative to (smart) use cases?
• On knowledge management measurement
• 8 Ways to Increase User Adoption of ECM and ERM systems
• Social Media ROI: Dell’s $3m on Twitter and Four Better Examples
• Build your own community or go where people already are?
• 8 Things To Know About Selling Document Management to Small Businesses
• How to Avoid Extinction as a Technical Communicator
• Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Architects Need to Know
• The Seven Deadly Sins of Online Community Management
• Pico – Personal Information Cockpit
• Social Media in Germany: 5 Years Behind – Still Lots to Learn

If you can handle some academical ranting, this quite long article deals with the vagueness that is inherent in Knowledge Management theory and practices:

• The nonsense of ‘knowledge management’

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