Comments on: ‘You can’t harness the power of social media in niche markets’ http://www.techleader.co.za/daleimerman/2009/02/20/you-cant-harness-the-power-of-social-media-in-niche-markets/ Thu, 17 May 2012 14:13:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: April http://www.techleader.co.za/daleimerman/2009/02/20/you-cant-harness-the-power-of-social-media-in-niche-markets/#comment-25382 April Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:56:56 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/daleimerman/2009/02/20/you-cant-harness-the-power-of-social-media-in-niche-markets/#comment-25382 Dale - that is an amazing success story! You give me hope! I build intranets (the social networking type), and we do everything to encourage any kind of contribution - from jokes, photos and music reviews to serious management articles or links to good articles online. And no-one contributes. I have one intranet that allows you to play online poker, with a winners board. A year later I'm still the top player and I only won three games in a row! Even nice prizes for "submitting a suggestion" lie unclaimed. The only intranets where we get people to contribute have a full PR/HR department nagging, pushing, suggesting and demanding that people submit information online only, and all service departments refuse to supply paper forms under any circumstances. Even then, employees walk to the HR department to "have forms downloaded" for them. I've decided that the vast majority of employees in your average SA company simply have nothing to say - to the world or each other. As you hear I get really depressed about this - I would have killed for an intranet to communicate my point of view when I was a cubicle worker! Dale - that is an amazing success story! You give me hope!

I build intranets (the social networking type), and we do everything to encourage any kind of contribution - from jokes, photos and music reviews to serious management articles or links to good articles online. And no-one contributes. I have one intranet that allows you to play online poker, with a winners board. A year later I’m still the top player and I only won three games in a row! Even nice prizes for “submitting a suggestion” lie unclaimed.

The only intranets where we get people to contribute have a full PR/HR department nagging, pushing, suggesting and demanding that people submit information online only, and all service departments refuse to supply paper forms under any circumstances. Even then, employees walk to the HR department to “have forms downloaded” for them.

I’ve decided that the vast majority of employees in your average SA company simply have nothing to say - to the world or each other. As you hear I get really depressed about this - I would have killed for an intranet to communicate my point of view when I was a cubicle worker!

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]]> By: Axel Schultze http://www.techleader.co.za/daleimerman/2009/02/20/you-cant-harness-the-power-of-social-media-in-niche-markets/#comment-25265 Axel Schultze Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:51:44 +0000 http://www.techleader.co.za/daleimerman/2009/02/20/you-cant-harness-the-power-of-social-media-in-niche-markets/#comment-25265 Dale - you are experiencing a great evolution in your staff with your Intranet. And more and more people are doing that. Xeequa is building on average 250 - 500 such communities each month. I guess most of the people just don't really advertise what they are doing - but just do it. Dale - you are experiencing a great evolution in your staff with your Intranet. And more and more people are doing that. Xeequa is building on average 250 - 500 such communities each month. I guess most of the people just don’t really advertise what they are doing - but just do it.

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