Biographical Information
Karyn German
VP Customer Care, NewsGator
Karyn German provides executive oversight for professional services and customer care at NewsGator. She spearheads the development of consulting offerings for companies looking to achieve success in the deployment of enterprise social computing initiatives. NewsGator Social Sites is a social computing solution built into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Social Sites gives enterprises better ways to collaborate, share content, expand employee knowledge and improve productivity.
Articles by Karyn German
Successful Enterprise Social Computing Adoption
07 Jul 2009
The seismic success of Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter and other social computing tools sets the bar pretty high for social computing initiatives within the enterprise. Though viral in the consumer realm, social computing tools require careful handling—and sometimes a little push—to achieve the desired results in a business context. What businesses typically expect out of social computing tools are powerful new ways to discover expertise...