John Tropea
SharePoint team collaboration update from the office
The past few weeks have shown a steady growth in usage of my team’s collaboration tools here at the office. We’ve got a growing body of work on our SharePoint-driven wikis and forums. Links to these repositories are going out more and more often via emails to teammates who haven’t yet contributed new pages. There [read more...]
Social Networking Behind the Firewall at Microsoft, Best Buy, IBM, and More
Here’s a good write-up from Computer World last week (thanks Mike Gotta) about successful in-house social networks set up at some major companies like Best Buy and Deloitte. Each seems to be home-grown and show parallels to Facebook and to MySpace. These are pretty tech-heavy organizations, so you can’t necessarily expect the same level of [read more...]
