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“Why can't we use LinkedIn for our intranet? At least it works, our intranet doesn't .” Maybe you considered this or heard it in your organization. The question intrigues me and I think we will hear it more and more in the coming years. What do you say in response to this question as internal or external consultant, Communications or IT manager? I'd like to share my thoughts in this post. Dissatisfied about IT The intranet is changing rapidly. The internet provides all kinds of free tools, like Dropbox, Yammer and Google Drive. More and more people are getting used to sharing (versions of) documents, online collaboration, sharing short messages, setting up and maintaining a personal profile, etc. Employees are often dissatisfied about the internal IT-tools and content-focused intranets. These tools cannot compete with the functionality we have on the internet. Free tools as intranet More and more employees are openly, and sometimes secretly, using free internet too...

Oscar Berg on the stage! He'll talk about Transparency as the double-edged sword . Or: Governing Enterprise 2.0 Risk. Knowledge work, ideas and the like are like black boxes. We can't look into them. We are finding ways to open up these black boxes. Increasing transparency in organizations and between organizations decreases risks and enables value-creation. Oscar points to two cases in which they tried to increase workplace awareness using blogs and microblogs. Oscar remarks that many of the legal issues we are now concerned with are the same as when email was introduced. Usability issues leads to workarounds. Employees start to email everything, label everything as Confidential, copy (locally) to ensure access, share with USB sticks. Lesson 1: There's a real challenge in finding the right balance between security and privacy. Lesson 2: We need a balance between control and empowerment. Governance is good, but it should not tip over in such a way that emplo...

Nice video by Michel Cartier titled "Are you ready for the 21st century?" (Found via Luis Suarez on his blog - thx!) Are You Ready for the 21st Century ? from Michel Cartier on Vimeo .

Every now and then I run into something that really gets me thinking. Recently I ran into this presentation . ActivityStrea.ms: Is It Getting Streamy In Here? View more presentations from Chris Messina . I went through it several times. And I think I'll do so in the coming days. Really great stuff!! Activity Streams: what are they, how can we collect and understand them? This presentation focuses on public streams, mostly on the internet. But does this story also extend to the streams behind the firewall, inside organization? I think it should, but I'm thinking about how this should work. Of course the firewalls are coming down. But companies will still be protecting their information to a certain extent. My thesis is: These streams will be most useful if the distinction between protected and public information is mixed. What do you think? And how do you think one stream of internal and external information can be devised? I'd love to hear your thoughts. (No...

If you follow my tweets you know I started ' Yammer '-ing in the company I work for. I thought: Let's try this and see where it goes! So, we're just experimenting and I don't know if this will hold. Well, I started Yammer-ing on Sept. 22. I was just curious if someone else from the company I work for was already there. And I wondered how Yammer compared to Twitter. Well, I was the first one in Yammer and very alone. ;-) Of course I asked some colleagues that Twitter to join, but their first response was: one microblog app is enough. Understandable... For about a month I was completely alone, talking to myself regularly. But, then something strange happened. Colleagues started joining Yammer. I'm not sure how it happened (- because I was pushing them, telling them about enterprise microblogging?! -), but it happened. And now it's taking off. The swift growth has to do with the fact the colleagues fill in the 'Org Chart', which (most people don'...

Really interesting article by Scott Berkun titled "The Limits of Leaked Memos" . I like his take! This is basically what I try to tell the corporate information security neurotics... To extend Scott's point a little bit: For me 'context' is also very important. If a memo leaks out, the reader needs 'context' to understand its meaning. Context that most people not working for the company the memo came from, don't have.

Interesting pointer to an article about the security of paper and digital documents . Are digital documents more secure than digital ones? Some time ago Xerox demonstrated ink that would fade from the paper after a certain period of time.