Recipes for collaboration success from The Socialcast Cookbook
One of the most popular questions we hear from companies is, “How do we create adoption and engagement with our community?” It’s easy to launch a corporate social network, but it can be tough for the passionate evangelists to convince everyone else of its potential benefits. Early adopters often have to get buy-in from executives, IT, and colleagues, all of whom are already busy with email overload and daily tasks.
To help employees and companies create interest, use, and excitement about their corporate social networks, we’ve written up The Socialcast Cookbook. This is a simple, informative and fun book full of “recipes” for success for employees at all levels of the company.
Download it here and pass it around with your team, your boss, and anyone else who would like to learn about the benefits of participating in a corporate social network.
Have an idea for another recipe? Email us at info@socialcast.com. We’ll be publishing recipes from users in the next version of the cookbook.
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Carrie
Great idea, the way you have collected and distributed these ideas.
I can attest to the great difficulty in getting people to buy into using a social network, although my situation may be different, since I am on a small university campus.
As far as I can tell, none of theses social networking platforms are specifically targeted at educational institutions, although from what I can gather on the web, a few universities are giving them a try. There is no shortage of silos on university campuses.
I am not aware of the pros and cons of various platforms, (eg yammer versus socialcast) in terms of utility for educational institutions.
It would be nice if someone started thinking about social networks on campus and how they might be more effectively designed and used for that market, although perhaps that is too small market?
In any event, I think you might need a somewhat different cookbook of ideas to help establish social networks among academics.