Socialcast blogs bring you the latest trends and best practices for enterprise social networks, to help you harness them to boost productivity, employee satisfaction, and business performance across your organization. Drawing on our own and others’ experience and insights, we’ll provide you with a stream of fresh ideas, stimulating insights, and thought-provoking commentary. We invite you to participate in the dialogue.
Strategically @Mentioning High Performers
Want to give recognition to outstanding teammates? Need to grab the attention of a specific co-worker? Use the @Mention feature! To do this: In your message, type in the "@" sign, immediately followed by their first name (no space!… Read more »
Join us for a webinar with Brian Solis – Lead the Way: Steps for Evaluating & Selecting an Enterprise Social Solution
Last February we hosted Charlene Li from the Altimeter Group for a Webinar on Making the Case For Enterprise Social Networks. While that was a great conversation and lively debate (and worth checking out the on-demand version if you missed it live), what we’ve seen over the last few months is even more interest around the specifics of deploying an enterprise social network and how to evaluate solutions to meet your needs and get the most out of your ESN. This month we’ve invited Brian Solis, also from the Altimeter Group, to discuss how enterprise social networks affect the entire organization and how a coordinated approach to assessment, selection, and deployment is critical. Like Facebook and Twitter, enterprise social networks present challenges to IT as low barriers to entry facilitate decentralized deployment.… Read more »
Social Analytics for the Enterprise
Want to be an industry leader? Look to social analytics In 2007 Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris wrote the book “Competing on Analytics” proclaiming to the world the power of numbers. The book showcased companies like Harrah’s Casino and Netflix and how they use data to become industry leaders while making billions of dollars. Come 2011, Hollywood caught on to the data fever and made Moneyball (based on the book) bringing the concept of analytics to pop culture. Of course analytics have been around long before 2011, but you know when Brad Pitt is involved it’s gone mainstream.… Read more »The Three Things You Should Know About Enterprise Social and Why You Should Join Us Thursday For A Virtual Conference
On a daily basis we work with leading companies that have recognized the value of social technologies in the workplace. The reality is, however, that many companies have yet to jump on the enterprise social networking bandwagon. According to a recent Forrester survey, 49% of those companies surveyed will have made investments in social networking solutions in 2012. That leaves a significant percentage of companies still on the sidelines. For those of you who haven’t yet made a commitment to enterprise social networking, your competitive advantage may be at risk.… Read more »
Understanding the Business Value of Enterprise Social Networking
Join Socialcast and guest speaker Rob Koplowitz from Forrester Research, Inc., for a live webinar to understand the business values of enterprise social networking. Rob will share research findings from a joint study that highlights the keys to delivering a social solution that is well adopted by employees and makes them more productive and engaged. Attendees will also receive a FREE copy of the joint research study “Social Business Becomes a Critical Driver of Core Business,” that further explains the business drivers of an enterprise social solution and how to improve adoption at your organization. During this live webinar, we will cover:… Read more »Sign up to receive email communications regarding events, webinars, and product news.
