Enterprise Social can be compared to an internal Facebook. The biggest technology companies (including Facebook) have an Enterprise Social solution and more and more startups are introducing solutions in this field. It’s clear that they all expect a lot from...
Back when Microsoft acquired Yammer, my job as a consultant working for Microsoft Services suddenly became a lot more interesting. Yammer was something I was waiting for as soon as I joined Microsoft as a trainee in July 2008. Facebook was...
The past few years my work consisted of advising companies on how to implement an Enterprise Social network. This was something I did for Microsoft in the Netherlands as a Business Consultant. This blog post has been written to share...
My decision to study at the Delft University of Technology was made when I experienced something I had never experienced before. They call it a “Group Decision Room”. It’s a room with desks set up in a circle. Every desk...
Everyone can create a group on Yammer and you can also add all your colleagues as members. The thing is though, you don’t want to randomly add colleagues when it’s just a community around a “theme”. That would be similar to adding them...
So what’s an Intranet? It took some time to find a not too technical description for the term “Intranet”: “A privately maintained computer network that can be accessed only by authorized persons, especially members or employees of the organization that owns it” (source:thefreedictionary.com) Will...