Synopses & Reviews
Learn to:
- Encourage innovation with social collaboration tools
- Empower employees and create an agile organization
- Accelerate work and improve project coordination
- Make sharing the norm
Learn to connect people, help them work together, and make your business more productive
Your employees are probably already active in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. What if they could use the same skills to get work done more efficiently? In this book, you'll meet the software and cloud services that help your employees connect with each other to communicate more efficiently, share skills, collaborate on projects, and more.
- Social with a purpose discover how social collaboration works, how it is and isn't like consumer social networks, and how to use it productively in your business
- Getting it off the ground see how to form groups, set parameters, address enterprise requirements, and use the cloud
- Explore options compare the many different vendors and products and determine exactly what your business needs
- Make the network work help people learn to connect with problem-solvers, share the right information, and seek expertise across the organization
- What's a manager to do learn what goes into managing a successful social collaboration program and collaboration communities
- Learn your part everyone from the CEO to the sales team has a role in a successful social collaboration
Open the book and find:
- All about the enterprise social graph
- Information on useful social collaboration platforms
- Suggestions for making a strong start
- How to get buy-in from the brass
- Social web standards you should know
- Pros and cons of the cloud
- Tips on making your social collaboration a success
- Ten obstacles you can overcome
Synopsis
Social Collaboration For Dummies will help you understand and realize the potential of social collaboration to improve operational performance through improved collaboration, knowledge sharing and communication within your organization, big or small. It explains the principles and technologies behind social collaboration, and how these can be applied to address various business problems and challenges, leading to improvements in productivity, organizational agility, innovation, and employee engagement.
The book will cover:
- Transforming into a social business
- Empowering your employees
- Serving the long tail of information needs
- Identifying productivity drains and how to fix them
- Using social collaboration technologies
- Engaging and learning in communities
- Leveraging existing processes
- Case studies
Synopsis
Realize the potential of social collaboration in business with this easy-to-understand guideSocial media have proven to be an engaging and addictive mode of communication and information gathering for users on a personal level. However, by applying that same philosophy, a corporate collaboration system that employs social technologies could potentially get employees more involved in running an efficient and effective business. This fun and friendly guide shows you exactly how to put social networking to work in order to achieve business goals. Taking you beyond just the features and tools of social collaboration, the book focuses on where and how social collaboration principles and technologies can be applied in order to enhance the performance of an organization, regardless of how big or small it may be.
- Helps businesses understand how to introduce social collaboration practices into their organizations in order to create the results they are seeking
- Details ways to transform a business into a social business by using social collaboration technologies
- Provides case studies that exemplify ways in which business can engage and learn in social collaboration
Social Collaboration For Dummies is an ideal introductory guide for anyone looking to use social collaboration to lead to improvements in productivity, organizational agility, innovation, and employee engagement.
About the Author
David F. Carr is an Editor at Large at InformationWeek and a columnist on social business and collaboration technologies for InformationWeek.com. He has led coverage on healthcare IT and online education and served as social business track chair for E2, a conference from InformationWeek's parent company, UBM.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Social Collaboration 5
Chapter 1: Connecting Business Collaboration with Social Networking 7
Chapter 2: Getting Familiar with Social Collaboration Tools 41
Chapter 3: Putting Social Collaboration to Work 69
Part II: Organizing Work with Social Collaboration 85
Chapter 4: Everyday Sharing on a Social Network 87
Chapter 5: Working Your Network 105
Chapter 6: Managing Projects and Tasks 115
Chapter 7: Collaborating on Content 133
Part III: Exploring the Social Collaboration Software Market 147
Chapter 8: Beginning Your Search for a Social Collaboration Platform 149
Chapter 9: Charting the Products and Vendors 171
Chapter 10: Social Collaboration in the Cloud 193
Chapter 11: Standards for Social Networking and Integration 213
Part IV: Managing Social Collaboration 227
Chapter 12: Succeeding with Social Collaboration 229
Chapter 13: Managing Successful Collaboration Communities 249
Chapter 14: Engaging External Collaborators 269
Part V: Playing Your Part in a Social Business 277
Chapter 15: The CEO and Executive Management Guide to Social Collaboration 279
Chapter 16: The CIO Guide to Social Collaboration 293
Chapter 17: The Workplace Leader’s Guide to Social Collaboration 301
Chapter 18: Social Collaboration for the Sales Team 311
Chapter 19: Social Collaboration for the Worker Bee 323
Part VI: The Part of Tens 331
Chapter 20: Ten Common Themes in Social Collaboration Success Stories 333
Chapter 21: Ten Obstacles to Social Collaboration Success 341
Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Make Social Collaboration Pay Off 349
Appendix: Case Studies: Learn from Others 361
Index 375