Category Archives: Intranets

Why healthy social interaction is important in companies

Why healthy social interaction is important in companies

The importance of social interaction is often underestimated by companies. The focus is more on the work that needs to be done and the company itself than the most important assets of the company: the people who work there. The New Work culture changes all of that. Read on to find out more about this trend and what has changed with the current pandemic.

Linchpin Review by René Vlak of SOMO

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The Center for Research on Multinational Corporations, or SOMO, conducts research concerning the influence and practices of multinational corporations from their office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. SOMO’s corporate intranet, called SOMO Community, consists of Atlassian Confluence, the Refined Theme and the Linchpin Intranet Suite. SOMO Community was launched in January 2020. René Vlak’s video review notes the several advantages offered by Linchpin and describes how they make user workflow easier.

Social Interaction 2.0 – Linchpin Hey, the Social Intranet, Makes It Possible

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As a person in a leadership position, you have a desire to make the world of work a little better every day. This article highlights two aspects that make a positive difference for employees and companies: Flexibility and the sense of belonging. We also present our self-developed tool – Linchpin Hey, a social intranet for the cloud that brings more communicative momentum to the company.

How to Visually Track OKRs, Project Progress, and Status in Confluence Cloud

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Everyone likes to see progress. This is why people weigh themselves in the morning when they are dieting or why they keep track of their exercise statistics. The same sort of drive to show progress in our personal lives carries over to projects and OKRs at work. The great thing is, you can use Aura to keep track of OKRs, project progress, and status!

Linchpin: KIWI First: And the Winner Is – a Social Intranet!

Linchpin CAS AG intranet

At CAS AG, everything revolves around KIWI, CAS AG’s social intranet. Strictly speaking, it is an implementation of Linchpin Intranet Suite from Seibert Media, which is built upon the knowledge management system Confluence from Atlassian. Read this blog to find out where the name came from and to watch a video of the presentation two representatives of the company gave at Tools4AgileTeams 2020.

Linchpin Hey Is More Than a Social Intranet: From Congratulations and Hey Fives to Confetti

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Employees of companies want to be part of a community, but the current trend (and necessity) of working from home can make building social connections quite difficult. We become so-called “Lonely Workers”, reaching out to others and asking them for help less and less, because they’re not physically close to us. It is now up to companies to offer solutions to make social interactions possible – solutions like Linchpin Hey.

How the Linchpin Intranet Helped dfv Mediengruppe Through the Pandemic

One way or another, Corona has hit every company and forced them to react quickly in order to remain operational and competitive: Suddenly everything was different! This was also the case for the dfv Mediengruppe based in Frankfurt. Our client used this uncertain initial phase of the pandemic to tackle and push forward a Linchpin intranet project, which had been simmering on a low flame for some time. In their presentation at last year’s Tools4AgileTeams conference, Verena Wagenpfeil and Michael Paulus from dfv presented this project with its effects and results.