We had 4 strong ideas in the final round of the Social Media Challenge:

1) Mihael Cankar, Laura Turkki, Marja Käpyaho & Dani Pärnanen - Improving support processes with social media tools
2) Jaakko Jäätmaa - Scrum-based social networking service
3) Miika Perä - Distributing incentives and resources by social graph and organizational data layers
4) Evgeny Paradeev - User-generated systems

The ideas were evaluated by the following criteria: originality, feasibility and value creation.

The judge panel..

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):

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The problem of undocumented knowledge

SIMO S. HÄMÄLÄINEN, student, University of Lapland, Finland

HELEN HEINMAA, student, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Organisations have huge amounts of undocumented knowledge. They employ
people with different experience and skills, who can keep things
running, but much of the information required for this is only in their
heads. This information is difficult to document, but it's vital to
keeping things running smoothly. Often, when a question arises, i..

A social solution to the problem of information hierarchies

SIMO S. HÄMÄLÄINEN, student, University of Lapland, Finland

HELEN HEINMAA, student, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

Many organisations deal with a large amounts of information. Much of the information is internal and stored in a shared filesystem on the intranet. Examples include policy documents, organisational information, contracts and internal documentation.

In traditional file storage, content creators and users organise i..

There is a lot of tacit knowledge about companies and its operations, which is never  formally documented. One way to encourage sharing is to create mind maps on certain topics collaboratively. One example of similar approach in public social media is this mind map started by Andrew Wilcox on different mind-mapping software solutions.

Studies claim that it is easier for people to process information presented in mind maps and they also help distilling only the most important. 

Similar approach..

In today's economic tide it seems to be a less arduous task for HR to find suitable recruits, more jobseekers and just less jobs to pick from. HR in companies needs to be prepared for good economic time, when the conditions on the labor market are less favorable to them.

If the highest quality of recruitment should be a company's strategic goal and companies set out to align their organization to their business strategy, it would for them not to do this on the issue of recruitment

If most jobs a..

My idea is a Scrum-based social networking service for organizations.

Scrum is a popular framework for managing complex work. An essential part of the Scrum method is so-called Daily Scrum, which is an every morning happening short meeting where members of a project team answer the following questions:
1) what one has done since yesterday,
2) what one is planning to do today, and
3) do one has any problems preventing to accomplish his/her goal.

In future office, every employee would be requir..

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..

Today many employees struggle with many different and usually complicated information systems in their daily work. Our idea is to combine the most commonly used administrative information systems with best innovations of modern social media into a single modular on-line platform.

The platform contains the most commonly used administrative systems such as CRM, work time planning, project management, file sharing, and corporate announcements. These features can be easily accessed and all use the ..