• 14% of organizations use blogs
• 13% use social tagging software
• 11% use wikis
• 72% of CIOs have no plans to use blogs in the next 5 years
• 74% no plans to use wikis

Last year’s Global Intranet Survey of 177 global intranet managers (medium to large organizations with 5,000 to 100,000 employees) found that Intranet 2.0 adoption is not much better: 

• Less than 20% of the respondents that have more than 50,000 employees have established 2.0 strategies
• None of the respondents with employees in the 5,000 – 50,000 employees have 2.0 strategies
• About 30% or less have implemented blogs
• About 40% have implemented wikis

While Prescient’s Intranet 2.0 Global Survey is an important one, it is focused solely on Intranet 2.0. Jane McConnell has prepared the 2008 Global Intranet Survey and if you haven’t signed up to participate then don’t hesitate further: your organization needs this information and you need to participate so you can get a copy of the 2008 results as soon as possible (THE DEADLINE IS THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 31). To participate, send an email to Jane specifying: 

• organization name
• # of employees
• website URL
• your name
• your role or title

Additionally, take the Intranet 2.0 Global Survey and you’ll get a copy of the full results including the good, bad and learned lessons.

Though e-mail still occupies an important stronghold in the nascent world of Intranet 2.0, social and employee networking communications is best embodied by instant messaging, discussion forums, and RSS technology. While these technologies build upon the value of the archetypal killer application that is e-mail, the real value delivered by employee networking is the group communications dynamic where a single employee can communicate both actively and passively with other similar or ‘connected’ employees or the entire employee population as a whole.

Sabre Town: Sabre's employee networking intranet site

Sabre, the company that runs most of the world’s airline flight reservation systems among other systems, is an impressive leader in employee networking. With nearly 10,000 employees spread around the globe (55% work outside of the U.S. where they are headquartered), Sabre is a progressive company that has Intranet 2.0 with spectacular results.

Recognizing their own unique needs as a global, distributed workforce, Sabre embarked to build their own employee networking intranet from scratch. Using another nascent technology, Ruby on Rails, Sabre built an impressive employee networking platform called Sabre Town. Sabre Town represents the company’s need to build more meaningful connections with this geographically diverse employee population.

Read the complete Sabre employee networking case study article