Sentence examples for internal social networking from inspiring English sources

The company's strategic use of internal social networking tools such as Chatter creates the feel of a business that's structurally flat, Afshar says.

For example, one company I have worked with allows employees to invite trusted partners to join their internal social networking platform.

That is also true at Simmons & Simmons, a large law firm: Its Walk to Client program uses an internal social networking site, posters and small foldout maps to prod employees to avoid taxis for short trips.

We see this in Best Buy's Blue Shirt Nation, an internal social networking site that encourages employees to share and discuss their unfiltered customer service experiences and ideas for improvements.

• With its huge employee base, I.B.M. also performs the kind of data mining on its own employees that Google or Facebook still can't dream of applying to the public — with access to the entire range of internal social networking tools linked to an employee ID number.

At Living Cities, for example, part of the requirement for attending an external meeting is to share through their internal social networking platform a description of not just what was heard, but a contextualization of what this means for the organization.

The underpinning for Medtronic's internal social-networking platform is Microsoft's SharePoint software, a tool that helps users set up websites and manage documents.

Take, for example, a large media company we work with that invested in an internal social-networking platform for the commercial organization.

We know a manager at an IT company who took advantage of internal social-networking technology to crowdsource reviews of a contractor he was considering.

Less radical is the appearance at IBM of collaboration software that has put corporate garb on many familiar consumer applications: examples include Dogear (Delicious-like social bookmarking), Blue Twit (a proprietary Twitter knockoff), and SocialBlue (an internal social-networking platform strongly resembling Facebook).

Many situations link internal and external social networking in unexpected ways.