"That is the question I came up with after studying a list of supposedly social CIOs. My conclusion is no. By definition, social media is about developing a public persona. If these are the most social CIOs and I was a CIO, I'd be second or third on the list. CIOs continue to be just north of nowheresville when it comes to social media."
"From a business and collaboration standpoint, the biggest missing features are integration with Microsoft’s Track Changes feature and the ability to access Sharepoint. harmon.ie is the latest company to bring Sharepoint access to the iPad...harmon.ie for Mobile provides the ability to access Sharepoint sites, check documents in and out for viewing and editing, manage document versioning and attributes, and to perform other common collaborative tasks. The app is currently available in a free edition that allows for document viewing but not editing, and a $19.99 premium version that includes editing and upload capabilities as well as push notifications for document and site updates."
"It’s now a little bit easier to collaborate with your work colleagues while on the go. Available from the App Store for $19.99 (though a light version is available for free), harmon.ie for iPad leverages the Microsoft SharePoint corporate collaboration platform to let users do things like share and update work documents directly from their tablet."
"More fun with the iPad this week, this time from social software provider harmon.ie. and in the shape of SharePoint document collaboration and social interactions to the iPad."
Yaacov Cohen, CEO of harmon.ie [said], “We basically just made the mobile business world all the more accessible – and accountable – by providing a secure, consistent enterprise iOS application for SharePoint users on-the-go. You’re welcome.”
"harmon.ie says its SharePoint app's advantages are two-fold: it makes the iPad more useful as a corporate device, and it makes SharePoint more useful by letting you take it with you. As part of the launch, harmon.ie introduced a marketing campaign on the theme of "Don't SharePoint While Walking", jokingly illustrating the trouble you can get yourself in while collaborating on the go."
"Because the iPad is becoming so pervasive among corporate users, expect more apps like this from a variety of vendors. harmon.ie's version offers iPad users the social interaction and document collaboration power of SharePoint, but also adds the ability to share items via links instead of email attachments."
"In my opinion, this application is very, very impressive. In addition to providing access to SharePoint site content, the inclusion of social features make this application stand out from other applications in the App Store. Providing the ability to see updated information about colleagues and SharePoint content whilst mobile is a brilliant feature. The application allows you to focus on what has changed by showing you clearly what has been updated. For me, this application provides a social hub for collaboration on an iPad and I would highly recommend it."
"I can easily see what changes a person makes and when. It's important to note this is something that is not in-the-box in SharePoint. This is special sauce. Good stuff from harmon.ie. I really like the people focus."
"The iPad has, quite quickly, become the tablet of choice for enterprises, with some 97 percent of all tablet activations in Q1 of 2012 attributable to Apple’s tablet, according to Good Technology. So it comes as no surprise that apps are rushing into the wake of those purchases to make the iPad more work-friendly.
The latest in that story is a release of some social software from harmon.ie that will make SharePoint...usable on the iPad, as well as the iPhone. harmon.ie’s CEO, Yaacov Cohen, says this marks the first time that business users can access SharePoint from both the iPad and desktop with the same user experience."
Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge argues that CIOs are just plain losers when it comes to social media. And that has to change.
"When the numbers were tallied, harmon.ie discovered that only 10% of the CIOs had “social credentials demonstrating that they understand what it takes to drive business transformation by using social tools to help flatten hierarchies, speed up business processes, and boost efficiency and agility through collaboration,” according to a harmon.ie press release about the social rankings. Topping the list of the top 25 CIOs with social know-how? SAP’s very own CIO, Oliver Bussmann. Based on the harmon.ie formula for measuring social activity, he scored a whopping 9,824.
"The use of social media in the enterprise has been a path well-trod by companies using mass market tools like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to communicate with peers, customers, investors and anyone else who might be interested in what they’re up to. But when it comes to the most senior information executives, they’re actually a little antisocial."
"If you thought corporate titans spent all their time ensconced in ivory towers — too important to engage in social media — think again. Here’s a chart based on research that ranks the top 25 most social-media-active chief information officers (CIOs) of the Fortune 250."
"Maybe it's because their jobs are too demanding to make the time or maybe they're just not interested, but one thing is clear: According to a new study, CIOs just aren't into social media. Whatever the reason, it’s a bad sign."
"Mark Fidelman, Chief Social Strategist at harmon.ie, lists 25 top CIOs, from the world’s largest companies, who engage on social channels such as Twitter and Facebook. I personally know several people on this list and can verify they understand the need for communication and openness, while still fulfilling their mandate to protect corporate assets."
"The future workplace in large part, relies on the importance of the CIO. We have heard a great deal, and with objectivity about the need for businesses to become more social. Let us look for once beyond the social business, to the CIO role whose social skills are stamped upon it."
"Can you judge a Chief Information Officer's social business savvy by the volume of his or her tweets?
Kimberly-Clark CIO Ramon Baez, an enthusiast for social media both internally and externally, thinks that makes perfect sense. "If I wasn't a user of it, I would have a tougher time selling to the business leaders why this was a powerful tool," Baez said.
Baez is personally active on social media and... ranks #7 on the list of Top 25 Most Social CIOs compiled by Mark Fidelman, chief social strategist at Harmon.ie. However, the headline on the analysis was that only 10% of the Fortune 250 and Global 250 CIOs are active in social media."
"Activity streams promise to alleviate the email overload we've all come to know and dread. But we've got a ways to go before they can truly replace email as our main mode of electronic communication."
"The most successful internal CXM experiences incorporate multi-channel, contextual workflows that minimize distracting context switches while delivering relevant, real-time updates within the context of the task at hand."
"[harmon.ie] will be offering the ability to gain access to IBM Connections through a social sidebar from an Outlook email box later in the year.... And it also added some top new features to the free edition."
"IBM...today announced that it would extend the social media features it offers through IBM Connections — roughly, the company’s enterprise equivalent of a social network for work colleagues and contacts that has been around since 2007 — to include integration with Microsoft Outlook email, courtesy of a partnership with harmon.ie."
"harmonie, whose software links enterprise social applications with email clients, has struck a deal with IBM to integrate IBM Connections with Outlook...harmonie had revenue growth of 259 percent in 2011, when it also became a Gold ISV partner in the Microsoft Partner Network and added about 145 new enterprise customers to its roster..."
"A huge wealth of clients are leveraging social technologies to connect people with people and people with information," Jeff Schick, IBM Vice President of Scial Business said. "You need to deliver these technologies in context of the way people work. We have wanted to deliver into the context of email social capabilities … [and] we also recognize we have to be a first-class citizen for folks who have deployed Microsoft technologies."
"...how do we "become" social? harmon.ie's co-founder and CEO, Yaacov Cohen, recently made an example out of Jive, citing the company's wider fourth quarter net losses in spite of growing popularity. 'There’s no doubt that Jive is an impressive software company that’s developed a technology innovation wrapped in a brilliant marketing package. This is a shame, because their approach is fundamentally flawed…"
"Continuing my conversation with Yaacov Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO of enterprise collaboration and email software company harmon.ie, we talked about how ideas for projects emerged in an organization and how to guide them to success..."
harmon.ie CEO Yaacov Cohen discusses the role of the CEO in a social business: "...social is really a revolution in terms of interaction within the enterprise....Everybody is a co-CEO. For example, one of things I’m doing is that I’m interviewing every employee before they come on board. I define our strategy and I check if this person not only the aptitude but also the right attitude....Now that they got the bigger picture, they can say, 'Now that I was trying to get the bigger strategy, and we tried it this way; it doesn’t work, so maybe I can react that way now.”
"While the addictive properties of social media are totally obvious, so is the truth that introducing social tools in an enterprise context is a tricky business, and driving adoption is sometimes a painfully slow process"
"...a lot of SharePoint's barriers to entry have to do with the complexity of performing what should be simple tasks. Third party tools can fill these tools and dramatically improve the user experience."
"As any professional knows, completing one project can require using multiple programs and several windows, with users jockeying between computer documents and emails in the process. Add phone calls and face-to-face meetings with co-workers, and productivity can take a palpable hit. harmon.ie offers a way to get the team working efficiently with a platform that enhances group communication."
"David Lavenda, VP of marketing at social email company harmon.ie, [offers] up common ways that well intentioned companies muck up the roll out of social tools and suggesting better ways to bring these tools to your team..."
harmon.ie is a very clever Outlook add-in. It has found a niche at the heart of information sharing, in the killer app and center of the universe, corporate email. It also brings a cohesive social experience to SharePoint environments, making it easy to find people."
"The key goal of harmon.ie is to increase the use of SharePoint within organisations and it does it quite well. The free version even brings in a social aspect by including Lync presence functionality as well as context-based SharePoint user profiles.The enterprise version unlocks quite a plethora of social functionality by drawing on SharePoint information as well as a lot more IT management capabilities and customisations."
"...harmon.ie has also integrated several instant messaging tools including: Lotus Sametime, Microsoft Link or OCS, and Cisco UC. These expanded capabilities allow harmon.ie to become an aggregation platform operating within the email environment, whether it is Outlook or Notes. You can now see an activity stream within the email client.
I think this both adds substantial efficiency and draws many more uses into the social software usage. This has been their experience. For example, the multi-national firm ABB more than doubled their SharePoint usage after implementing hamon.ie to further engagement. Prior to this, their employees had to log into 6 to 9 separate communication and social apps on their desktop. Now they can do much of the same work within the email client, where people spend most of their workday."
"Today, Lotus Notes is the senior and Lotus Connections is the new kid who is different but still feels like part of the family. Then there are all these related newcomers. These are the third party apps such as Harmon.ie, which pulls in Sharepoint updates to an activity stream within the Lotus Notes client."
"Many users default to sending information via email attachments thus creating an endless inbox pit, and sometimes tracking information in SharePoint can be a challenge. Harmon.ie may be a solution for these challenges and Oleson’s review, with pros/cons and operation features, is a worthy read."
"SharePoint Workspace and harmon.ie helped me let our people work the way they want to work and let me accommodate the way our designer wants to work. At the end of the week, we had an excellent product, everybody was happy, and everything was in SharePoint."
"I recommend harmon.ie for those companies looking to integrate centralized document creation and management into the corporate culture and for those looking to simplify the social element of keeping better track of people and documents in SharePoint... This may very well be the tool that drives adoption and seamlessly transitions people into sharing assets that otherwise would be buried and lost in email."
