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Creating a Social Intranet - how? What is Microsoft´s strategy here?
Yammer is part of the story, conversations for larger communities, Groups is the conversations for smaller communities, but they will all ultimately feed into the Graph.
Thanks for your thoughts Steven. To me, a Social Intranet should be a company level fabric that surfaces people, knowledge, and assets and enables communication and collaboration through both real-time (skype) and asynchronous persistent communications (like Slack or Yammer). It would have very strong profile capabilities to find people with like skills and experience.
I think you are right that Graph is the backend engine. For large organizations, they hire people or consultants to develop a rich front end that has calendar, news, featured resources, and other bits and pieces. For small organizations, it is hard to see how it fits together.
Modern intranets need to be people forward, both local and global, free flowing yet structured. An intranet needs to support Content, Communication, Collaboration, Activity, and most of all Culture.
One possibility (that is my hope but no evidence) is the new Sharepoint Home page becomes a configurable base case for an Intranet Home page.
But to the OP, I don't think Microsoft has a current Intranet-vision, i would love to see it!
I hope there is more discussion here about Intranet possibilities with O365, or as some call it "Working Out Loud"!
Rob.
