Thank you all for the 40 ideas we received for Social Media Challenge! There were many great ideas submitted and it was hard to narrow it down to final five.

The following ideas were selected to the final round:

1) Mihael Cankar & Laura Turkki - Improve service processes with peer-to-peer tweets
2) Marja Käpyaho - Dynamic Support Tree
3) Jaakko Jäätmaa - Scrum-based social networking service
4) Miika Perä - Distributing incentives and resources by social graph and organizational data layers
5) Evge..

Ville Hallavo- Student, HSE

Eemeli Metsäntähti- Student, HSE

Social media relies on voluntary usage, which is also the hardest part of designing new tools. Therefore, our main theme is creating a social media tool that would be adopted not through forcing but pure inner motivation of its users. Our suggestion is to design the corporate social media tool on the Facebook platform, as a mash-up of other useful applications listed below (idea being that daily work is performed on the platform):

-  ..

Currently mostly every single company has intranet, which contains information of various kinds i.e. company news, employee directory, training material etc. The same companies have different platforms/tools for project work and other similar activities. The problem with these systems is that they are usually very complex to find information, scattered and difficult to use - anti-user-friendly in other words.

The very same issues apply to the customer and supplier side. Many companies have some..

I\ve just found this cartoon http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-10-04/

Enjoy!

Problem: The management of investor relations is a vital business process in all public companies. Current and potential investors are company's key interest groups and communication and interaction with them should be fast, fluent, diversified. Regardless of these facts, there seems to be at the moment very little true social interaction between the companies and the financial community. Instead of two-way communication, or interaction, companies primarily use methods of mass communication or..

There are companies that have used social media tools for years. However, some companies are still relying on old and inefficient communication methods. Especially large companies have complicated processes and organizational structures, which may seem overwhelming for a new employee. Finding a right person is difficult via an incomplete personnel directory. Documents and presentations are stored on laptop hard drives, e-mail boxes, or document storage partitions that are only available for a ..

Problem: Companies claim to be customer oriented but in truth they fail to be truly and effectively near their customers.

Proposition: The power of the social media and the Internet should be utilized by building customer communities dedicated for sharing answers, ideas and solutions. Public customer community would be an open place where customers and employees of a company could meet and share information.

Implementation: Customer community should be implemented to the web and be easily access..

Social media can benefit companies in many ways: it can be used as a tool for innovating, it makes knowledge sharing easier, it can increase productivity and it can connect people into virtual workplaces. These are the key things which can enable the transition to the future office.

As people are used to social media tools and willing to use them, companies should take advantage of them in everyday work processes instead of banning them. It is not useful for the company to have many social med..

As Industrial revolution and Information revolution are passed by, we are experiencing the Social Media Revolution. In the Industrial and informational revolution it was the new technology that revolutionized social and economic fields. Right now, the human-like social-wise knowledge has taken over.

Knowledge is what matters when it comes to the modern organization. The company needs to know it’s cababilities to produce value. The concept of information feed is very typical of social media. In ..

I have already mentioned earlier that corporations are under-using the power of mobile phones. Here I would like to discuss more opportunities.

First of all, we need to see more co-operation between mobile phone manufacturers and their corporate clients. When a company buys computers for its staff it can configure it according to its needs. Similar thing could be done in case of mobile phones. This is especially important providing that mobile phone still fall behind laptops in their processing..