Category Archives: Blog

Social Media & SharePoint

On Monday February 13th (1:00PM-6:00PM) OrangeTrail is organizing an event in Amsterdam around the theme “Social Media & SharePoint.” The event will take place in ‘De Lichtfabriek’ in Haarlem. During this event: – We will share our vision on how you can improve … Continue reading

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Management 2.0

Here’s a great speech from Gary Hamel, one of our favorite management thinkers. In this video he talks about the management challenges we are facing today and explains key aspects of modern management models that you need to be successful. … Continue reading

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Companies working with OrangeTrail

We’re proud, that in our first year of business, the following world class companies have chosen to work with OrangeTrail!

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Yammer moving toward Social Middleware

Yammer has just rolled-out a major upgrade. They have added the ‘Ticker for Enterprise’. This is a significant upgrade as it provides an insight into where we believe the industry is heading. Yammer, and other similar tools, will become ‘social middleware’. … Continue reading

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Putting social media to productive use within the enterprise

Below is an interview with John Hagel. John is a renowned thinker and publicist on new technology and it’s impact on businesses and society. Even though John doesn’t work for OrangeTrail, his take on putting social media to productive use … Continue reading

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ESM presentation

Here’s most of the presentation we used today in our workshop on Enterprise Social Media adoption at the Dutch Microsoft office at Schiphol. Enterprise Social Media Workshop View more presentations from Jaap Linssen.

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Proper use of your Activity Stream

There is great danger that your activity stream rapidly fills with posts about people changing their profile picture, linking to others, mentions of birthdays, etc. and this is especially true as the network grows. The consequence is that this type … Continue reading

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Inspiring lecture on self organised learning

This is a truly inspiring presentation by Sugata Mitra on self organised learning. There are obvious parallels to how people in organisations are able to collaborate. In the spirit of Sugata: Work them out yourselves. Just watch. It’s funny to!

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When the hype dies, the real work begins

We came across an interesting survey by Useful Social Media which studied a number of facets of social media use by enterprises. To us the most interesting finding proved a conviction we’ve had for a while. Enterprise marketing and communications … Continue reading

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Do you want to allow anonymous posting on your social media?

We’ve had a number of clients discussing the merits of anonymous posting with us. Some feel it’s the only way to generate significant activity on their ESM environment. Our feeling is that the desire to have anonymous posting can be … Continue reading

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