I have been crazy busy at work - integrating our internally branded "KP Ideabook" into several new projects - racking up places I can put the web 2.0 social media into play. KP Ideabook is based on Jive/Clearspace http://www.jivesoftware.com/products/employee-community product. Jive is SaaS model social business tool that is either hosted inside our firewall (the leased option) or perhaps only the gateway is inside the firewall - which uses SSO - Single Sign On. I am not sure.
I am integrating the tool as a "Community of Interest" for the administrators of my system, with interior subgroups for special teams - like Report Users and User Acceptance Testers. I will use these spaces as a part of our overall deployment/communication effort. "KP Ideabook" has discussion boards, blogging, document management(including collaborative documents) and mini project plan modules. I am in a rush to get the space ready for our first push this coming Thursday, when I will demo the tool for our large user community. Our go-live date is drawing near again (Sept 1st) and it looks like this time it is for real. As one of only two people set to deploy not only a system but training on that system to 3,000 users - this will be a godsend.
As well - there is a leader sponsored project to replace a costly vendor tool with a no cost solution. Web 2.0 to the rescue. I am going to use "KP Ideabook" for this project as well - although I will set the functionality and user interface to look and behave very differently from my User Community of Interest.
This thing is going to be put in place right away - and had I not taken this class - I would have never understood the possibility of this tool. Thanks Jun!
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BART can use an "Ideabook" but it won't. The culture prevents it from taking root. I am so glad that your company is the total opposite of mine when it comes to viable solutions. I was one of the first Kaiser member to use the "KP.org" site to manage my health. I am the poster child for this innovation and should get a commission every time I brag about managing your health! LOL!
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