Social Intranet Software

Thanks to the internet and social media, technology has advanced to the point where we can connect with more people around the world than our ancestors may have met in a lifetime, and there’s no reason for an enterprise intranet not to offer these same advantages.

A social intranet is a platform that takes the networking opportunities and familiar features from social media and places them within an organization’s private network. Social intranet software boosts engagement, encourages collaboration, and drives efficiency by giving employees a voice and forum for raising it, helping to drive valuable conversations and bring people together around shared interests.

What differentiates an intranet from a social intranet are the same capabilities we’re used to with consumer technology: social feeds that let employees post and make their voice heard; commenting and @tagging that bring others into the conversation to add their insight; #hashtags that create topics others can easily search across and find; even rich media and native video that bring feeds to life and engage more than text ever can.

These features make it easy to build a community of equals and offer channels for your people to share knowledge, locate expertise, connect with colleagues, and collaborate seamlessly. But, best practice reveals key differences that must be considered when launching a socially enabled employee experience platform.

Even though Unily’s employee experience platform comes with native social features baked in, it doesn’t mean you have to give up on your existing social platforms. Whether you’re using Slack, Viva Engage or another alternative, Unily integrates seamlessly with third-party social apps to unite conversations happening across the digital workplace. Bring your Viva Engage feeds into Unily sites and pages with plug-and-play integrations delivered from our market-leading Feature Store. Use Viva Engage for conversations and Unily social for commenting and reacting across documents and stories, or opt to turn off Unily social altogether. Take control over the social features you want to enable with complete flexibility to create the social intranet that’s right for your people.

1. Connected enterprises
Connected enterprises benefit from social alignment through a more engaged workforce, more channels to reach and communicate with their people, and more opportunities to hear from the voices that make up your organization.

2. Collaboration
Hybrid and remote working relies almost entirely on technology to collaborate. When you give people the tools to connect with each other at will, you open up valuable channels for collaboration and innovation.

3. Knowledge sharing
Social feeds make for an excellent open forum for interactions while also keeping a searchable record of this knowledge exchange for everyone to benefit from, breaking down silos that are formed when knowledge is shared face-to-face or over email. Users can simply reach out to experts within your organization, or ask open questions for others to offer their insight, and that knowledge can be recorded and stored for future use.

4. Engagement
Social intranets have been shown to drive engagement across global workforces and, on the flip side, give enterprises more ways of accurately measuring and analyzing employee engagement. By giving users a voice on your intranet, and a platform to make it heard, employees engage better with the platform, with communications, and with each other.