Wikis, blogs, twitter, social networks, podcasting, vblogs - does it frighten you?
The recent explosion in asynchronous collaboration might mean lack of control on one side of the coin but more effective collaboration on the other side. But how do you cope? How do you monitor and manage content? And how do you give your staff the tools they crave to improve team work?
The boundaries between authorised and unauthorised collaboration are becoming more and more blurred.
Useful collaboration tools
The revolution is now taking place with new tools such as wikis and blogs. While once regarded as specialist niche, these have become useful tools for internal communications and team collaboration. But most organisations don’t yet understand how to best integrate them. And if they are implemented poorly, then they don’t work and then people don’t use or update them – a vicious circle.
At vc-net we aim to stay ahead of the game. We know that wikis and blogs can become effective parts of a coherent collaboration strategy.
Through working with leading edge organisations that want their employees to use new collaboration tools such as wikis and blogs we have learned what makes a successful way of implementing these tools.
Some of the key points to think about when implementing wikis or blogs:
- user training
- customisation abilities
- integration with current communications system and infrastructure
- security
- mobile access
- communications policies
- ease-of-use
Most critical of all is to instill ‘champions’ or moderators (sometimes ‘cultural ambassadors’ so that there is a cadre of power-users who ensure that best-practice filters down, whether it is a community of interest, a wiki or whatever.
Contact us to find out what blogging and wiki software and solutions that are available to enterprises, which one that would be most appropriate for your business, and how it can be implemented quickly.
