Unlocking knowledge with your social intranet

Why should you even consider a social intranet in your organisation? Surely the world doesn’t change just because there’s a new way of communicating? This is an attitude that reflects the uneven digital skills in our society, and ignores the fact that a new medium can deliver new benefits. A social intranet isn’t just about…

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What’s the value of an online community?

We love and value Ambix. We have crafted it from the germ of an idea to a thing of beauty and practicality. But we know that what we think really doesn’t matter to you. What matters to you most is that Ambix meets a need in your organisation. We want to help you to you…

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Karate Community Packs a Punch Online

In a paper published in July this year, “Structural differences between open and direct communication in an online community”, the authors present the results of seven years’ study into the differences in one-to-one (messaging) and many-to-many (forum) communication in a population of over 35,000 users. Their results match our experience of the development of online…

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Why CEO participation makes your community perform

You’ve made the decision and taken the plunge, you’ve invested in a good quality online platform for your organisation’s members. There’s some dedicated junior resource on your team to manage the community, and active users are climbing every day. As CEO, your work here is done! Or is it?

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Privacy and online collaboration

In an article for the FT this week, Emma Jacobs brought privacy into the spotlight. There’s a groundswell of opinion that there is now too much private data floating around in the ether, with the potential to compromise individuals out in the real world.

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