<p>Intranets have for many years been a place where companies disseminate information to employees in a top down, static way. As workers become more remotely distributed, the need for online collaboration tools is butting up against the concept of the traditional intranet. Combining the two is a hot trend in the social business world. Enterprise Social Networks, Corporate Intranets</p><p>How can the enterprise social network and the corporate Intranet co-exist? Microsoft SharePoint customers are asking themselves this question as the Yammer activity feed is incorporated into the SharePoint Online world.</p><p>CMSWire held a recent webinar on the prominence and importance of this issue in the enterprise, and we heard from experts like Andrew Dixon, senior vice president at Igloo Software, and Kelly Adams, director of brand and marketing communications at NII Holdings, better known as Nextel.</p><p>Adams was in charge of spearheading a five-country roll-out of Igloo's social business tools for Nextel, and she had some tips on how to choose and deploy such a large software initiative. Like many companies, Nextel had separate portals for workers in each of the five countries, including the US, Mexico and Brazil. Workers in those countries were using different systems and different languages, and the company wanted to unite them all in one place.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/webinar-recap-have-social-business-tools-killed-the-intranet-023385.php">Keep reading...</a></p>