Modules

The Social Network is built on the full range of web 2.0 modules.

Profiles

Each employee is encouraged to present himself and his skills and receive recognition for his contribution to the company. Getting to know your colleagues, even those far away, increases team spirit.

Groups

Each group can also present their role in the company and develop their interactions with their internal clients and suppliers.

Directories

Finding the right interlocutor has never been easier.
Social directories, with the extra information from people's profiles and their relationships offer a much broader view into the organisation and allow for a more powerful search function.
Instead of looking someone up by name or department, you can search for competencies, interests, relationships.

Org-charts 2.0

The traditional org-chart is not only difficult to maintain and therefore often out-of-date, it offers a vary narrow view into the organisation, sticking to rigid reporting lines.
The Org-chart 2.0 has a life of it's own and brings real insight about the actual interactions within the company. Click here to learn more.

Blogs

Everyone is a specialist. Even if it is of one own experience. Every expertise can be shared and enhanced through ratings, tags, comments and the conversations they produce.

Micro-blogging

A new trend popularized by Twitter is micro-blogging.
At first glance, it seems pretty silly. Anyone can input up to 140 character long text messages in a long stream of inane comments : "Studying hard for my exams"...
You can "follow" friends and respond to their "tweets", which gives it the community aspect.

But it has definitively caught on.
It is being used in more and more professional contexts.

Minute-by-minute conference reporting
New form of blogging: short snippets and links (look ->)
Alternative to chat within companies

Forums

There are some topics where the collective insight becomes the expert. Share best practices, opinions and advice.

Wikis

A Wiki is a series of web pages open to collaborative creation where everyone can create and edit the content. We are used to publishing only the final, reviewed, validated version of a document. All that risk-hedging and polishing is often very time consuming without adding much value. Wikis allow for documenting work-in-progress, getting the important information “out there”” fast, without the pressure of “perfection”.

The future is where all components are "wikied" with a big "Edit me" button on every page. No insight goes untapped.

Chat

Contrary to “common sense”, studies have shown that online chat can actually increase productivity by reducing interruptions. Positive company feed-back illustrates how employee integrate this new communication channel for quick exchanges.

Polls

Each link of the corporate value chain can be improved through appropriate feed-back.

Classifieds

Often one of the first “extra-professional” additions to Intranets, classifieds are a universal point of exchange between colleagues.

These modules attain their full potential with these interactive tools.