Sociala intranät - ett intranät för alla? : Uppfattningar bland leverantörer och beställare

Sammanfattning: A social intranet is an information and communication channel that is relatively new. There is still a small amount of research done around social intranet and what it is, and also on what organizations and their members may benefit from using such an intranet. Therefore, this paper was written with the purpose to em-phasize the reasons, possibilities and difficulties of implementing and using a so-cial intranet. With interview as method we took part of the experiences and views on social intranet from a number of organizations that are using or is about to establish a social intranet, and also from companies who deliver the service. Through the use of previous research in organizational communication, we then analysed the responses we received from our respondents. Our results and con-clusions show that social intranet are meant to open up a two-way communication in the organization and should be seen as a work tool. Employees get a chance to contribute information and knowledge on the intranet, which creates a greater participation and solidarity in the organization. The results also showed interest-ing differences in perceptions of social intranet between suppliers and clients. The big difference here was how far the employees would be involved in the process of creating a social intranet. Suppliers pushed more on employee involvement than some of the clients did. Differences that existed in both groups were also how they termed social intranets, and how they named the various groups that can be created in the social intranets.