Microsoft SharePoint
How Microsoft and Jive Might Get Microblogging Wrong
Microsoft SharePoint and Jive SBS are the two biggest players I know of in the one-size-fits-all enterprise collaboration world. Thanks to the two year lag between consumer web product innovation and enterprise collaboration followup, we now see microblogs gaining recognition as a must-have feature for the biggest players in this market.
This is great news but there’s [read more...]
Do your employee incentives encourage productive behavior?
Reward programs gone horribly wrong
I think we’ve all seen examples of reward systems leading to counterproductive behavior. My favorite example is working for a fast food joint when I was in college and having a “seventy second drive-through time” contest. Our goal was to keep the average time between customers leaving the drive-through menu (presumably [read more...]
Hot collaboration trends in 2009: Internal Facebooks, SharePoint microblogging, expert location, and homegrown wikis
Even though Sharing at Work hasn’t been quite as frantically busy in 2009 as it was in 2008, people still keep Googling their way here to check out the archives. It’s a good practice to track the topics that are drawing the most public interest so we can figure out which powerful themes in [read more...]
Setting up an internal Facebook might just solve your company’s communications and engagement problems
Updated 10/2009: If you’re looking to set up a Facebook-style network inside of your organization please take a look at this new post on internal Facebooks and expert location. You’ll find some advice you can act on there! – Daniel
Who knew I was looking for diversity?
This morning I had the privilege of participating in [read more...]


