I have spent a great deal of time interviewing my stakeholders, and I have found a great social networking site that will work well for my pilot. I evaluated three different services, and created social networking sites on each of them. Edmodo was very easy to use, but because it is tailored to K-12 education it did not best suit the needs of our company training. Privacy and security were two of the biggest concerns that I uncovered in my interviews. I also evaluated Yammer. This was very close to our requirements but still not quite right. The best fit was Socialcast by VMWare. This service lets you set up a private social network. It has more administration features than Yammer. Best of all it is free for groups of less than 50. After that it is $5 per user per month.
Once I had selected the service I created a sample site for our company. I used this to begin creation of the initial training documentation for the users. I made sure to walk them through the sign in process, the creation of their first posts. I included lessons on posting links and uploading documents. Finally I created a lesson on how to search for the content on the site. This is the most critical part of the process, as it is how people will find the content that others post.
The last part of my project was to show the site to others and have them post content. Due to some re-organizations at work this has been one of the harder parts of the project. However I did share the site with the head of our HR training organization and asked her to post her thoughts. She thought is was a good idea and was looking forward to seeing more. The project will shift into high gear, so this proof of concept will really some into play at that time.
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