I’ve been asked to put together a one slide powerpoint on what our intranet would look like if I could unleash the full social media meal deal. So here’s what I’m thinking:
- Only one slide!?!
- The next time we overhaul our intranet, we create a front page that looks more like CNet than a typical intranet
- Include some space at the top of the page for top stories that get there through Digg-like functionality (employees get to vote on what they think is most interesting/helpful)
- Have a news feed on the side that is only populated when there is actionable, critical information for employees to know…example: You have one day to enroll in health benefits, do it now! sort of thing (this of course would be RSS-enabled, as would all content on the site)
- There would be an internal social networking site (like Facebook)….don’t think of it as a social thing, it’s like an ultra-comprehensive company phonebook that also lists areas of expertise each employee has to make it easier for employees to find one another to collaborate on projects, get questions answered, etc.
- There would be a section for vidcasts/podcasts and photos (we’d have an internal YouTube/Flickr area where anyone could upload videos/photos that would be tagged…training videos, employee ideas about new advertising campaigns, execs talking to employees, employees talking back to execs, etc.)
- There’d be a section that would pull from our internal wiki (called Intelpedia), product definitions, historical information, benchmarking data, etc. (this could be a kind of, tidbit of the day)
- Blogs would be featured (organized by topic maybe)–the best rise to the top
- There’d be a link to forums
- An interactive calendar that would know where you were located and only showed relevant events (anyone could add an event to the calendar, easily fill an online form that got to the: who, what, where, when, why)
- We’d have an enterprise-wide web-based aggregator (is this technically possible to keep secure…someone with IT experience, let me know if I’m just dreaming here!)
- And of course we’d have social bookmarking a la del.icio.us
- We’d have a section where people could sign up for any of our feeds. For instance, our library does an incredible job of rounding up daily news that relates to our business, I’d find a way to include this somewhere on the front page, as well as in a list of great feeds that could be delivered to your aggregator or inbox.
HELP!!! I’m definitely beyond one slide. Is someone really good at visual mock-ups, could whip something up for me by say….tomorrow!
I’d love to know what you are all doing with social media? Do you find these are tools that are relevant to your jobs? I’ve read several Melcrum reports on this and so far, it still seems very new to most of us. Well–that’s what makes it exciting!
