10 Cool Ways To Use PDFs

The portable document format (you know it as PDF) has been around for years and can be used in hundreds of dierent ways by people in virtually any industry. Here are our favorite tips and tricks for using PDFs to your advantage.

Why enterprise social networks fail (and what you can do about it)

Internal social networks like Yammer and Jive are rising in popularity. In some organisations they are replacing intranets and email. A less known fact is that in most companies enterprise social networks fail to take root. One key reason for this is lack of support from senior management. Without their support old practices that hinder the social revolution will be too hard to change. Staff will end up sitting on the fence about the new tool. It’s not enough that someone in internal communications says that this is the tool to use.

If you want to convince your senior executives that your organisation can benefit from a social network you might have to use several approaches. The impressive statistics about increased productivity that enterprise social spokespeople offer are rarely enough. This infographic gives you tips on how you can secure buy-in from your leaders so you can then focus on getting buy-in from employees (which will the topic of the next infographic from Virpi at BusinessGoesSocial.net).