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 ..

 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..

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..

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..

My idea rises from informal discussion going across the boundaries inside the companies and fragmented nature of information in social medias. My five cents to Social Media Challenge would be internal communication tool that would encourage and facilitate in creating innovative business models. This would include two different tools integrated together, forum 2.0 and business model tool.

Forum 2.0 would a tool to share information, raise ideas and discuss with the help of social media featur..

When companies try to use corporate social networks, they encounter the challenge that they are just not enough users to create a valuable experience. In this case, it makes sense to start looking from a wider perspective.

For example, it can be a social network within one supply chain. Members of the whole supply chain could share their ideas, recommendations and even complaints. And, instead of it being one linear communication channel (figure 1), it can encourage open communication from any ..

Although many repair service tasks are repetitive in kind, some problems occur rarely and service personnel can not be expected to know every detail. Imagine a copy machine repairman fixing a client's multifunction device with a rare problem. Instead of calling the office, or worse, having to return the following day, the repairman uses a company-internal twitter-like tool to post a message:

"I've got this #canon-IR-1023N that displays error message #HD110 but the heating drum won't come out. ..

It is important for organizations to create a knowledge database. However, writing about the process one has done earlier can be cumbersome. Some ideas or details may get lost.

Tool 1.

With the help of microphone and voice recognition software users can record their ideas/activities during the process of making them. For example, during surgeries or even simple patient visits doctors can record what they are doing while making the work and later just edit the text document or even share it as an..

Social media can be used as a powerful tool for inter-company status updates. For example, if you want to keep your colleagues and managers updated on your projects at all times. In addition, it can help generate official periodical reports.

Tool 1.

A Twitter-like application where a user can tell what projects/tasks he has just finished/is working on/is planning to do. User can give information about, for example, 3 latest projects, attach files, links and give his/her own comments about major ..