Revamp Employee Onboarding with Enterprise Social Computing - A NewsGator Social inSite

How do you start a new job and be productive on day one? If you are new to the company, recently reassigned, or in a dynamic industry - it can be a challenge finding your place in the hive, plugging in, and benefiting from the frenzy of activity around you. New employees are expected to quickly learn about organizational culture, company policy, and team norms. Whether you are sharing an office with colleagues or collaborating across geographically-dispersed boundaries, you need to ramp up quickly and start contributing. NewsGator products help streamline onboarding – an evolving process that was once more traditional, formal, inflexible, and required a lot of overhead.

No more multi-day orientation sessions – thank you. One of my former employees cleverly named a two part series of training courses “surviving” and “thriving”. Trust me, they were tough to survive.

Adapting to a new environment, meeting the right people, and locating essential information takes time. At NewsGator, we use our technology every day in ways that not only improve the customer experience but also contribute to our bottom line. Critical employee information is accessible in one neat community. And there are other communities dedicated to our client engagements, product enhancements, market research – the list goes on. Our social computing solution recommends online communities and colleagues, allowing users to instantly get connected to the peers, leaders, and expertise they need to do their jobs.

As a new employee trying to come up to speed, I used our tools and was amazed at the results. I was prepping for a customer call regarding an upcoming webinar. Within minutes, I was able to ascertain the top 10 topical experts in the company, see actual screens of the client implementation in action, and read about the latest support requests - now that’s social CRM my friends. As a team, we are coordinated and we don’t waste each others' time retelling stories.  

Patricia Romeo was recently gracious enough to share her experiences about onboarding at Deloitte using Microsoft SharePoint and NewsGator Social Sites. This webinar is great example of how we’re delivering tangible results for HR departments using social computing. To view it in its entirety, please click here.