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Re: Spaces vs. Groupschris.comeaux Nov 28, 2011 6:29 AM (in response to Mlavoie)
Regarding your Q2. Yes, there are many private groups, and it is bad for collaboration.
In my experience ~ 80% of the groups are private. This should decrease with time as people get more comfortable with Jive, but we are a large organization with very diverse businesses, and people will always be cautious about making a group open to everyone.
- This would work OK if we had only a few large private groups that covered broad areas, but we instead have many small private groups dedicated to specific ideas.
- This creates a problem with collaboration because most users are only interacting with a small group (5 to 20) in private groups. Also, there are big problems when you consider what the situation is 2 years later when 1/4 of the people have left the company, the group owner is no longer there or working in that area (so requests to join may be lost), and new managers have joined that should have access, but don't.
- Regarding Q4. We are currently mainly using groups, but I think we are setting ourselves up for a problem in the future. (see Re: How to make membership control easy for old groups? ). In my view it is the ability to use permission "groups" that are the key difference between spaces and groups, not that we allow users to create groups but admins have to create spaces. With permission "groups", the risk of important data becoming lost is much lower.
- I work in R&D, and I see all the time where people are looking for information from a project from a few years back. With Jive Groups you will only find that old information if you happen to be a member of that group.
- This is especially a problem as new people join the team, but they don't have access to the 30+ completed projects that contain the important information
- We can't use "projects" within a large group because while the projects are active we need tighter security on them (~ 10 users, not the ~ 100 from the larger group)
- It may be possible to keep the information in a "project" in a small private group (10 users), and then move the project to the larger private group ("completed R&D projects", 100 users), but that gets more complicated for the end users
- So my general idea on spaces vs. groups (which we don't practice yet) is....
- If the information has to be private within a certain area of the company, no matter what, then it woud benefit from being in a space structure where permission groups can be used to make sure the right people have access
- We initially wanted to avoid this because were were concerned about having a few large silos, but as a result I think we ended up with many small silos which is worse.
- If the information needs to be shared across areas of the company (across businesses, privately or openly) then use groups
- Let users create their own groups, but someone needs to monitor this to try to prevent there being many small private groups related to similar larger topics.
- If the information has to be private within a certain area of the company, no matter what, then it woud benefit from being in a space structure where permission groups can be used to make sure the right people have access
- One important thing about spaces is that people don't see that they exist if they don't have access. So the main dashboard may have 30 businesses listed as subspaces, but each user will only see the 1 or 2 that they have access to, so it won't be clutter. I've advocated that each of our sites should have a space as well, so that when a user joins for the first time they see their core business, and their local site (and all the open content).
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Re: Spaces vs. GroupsJenniferTh Nov 28, 2011 10:50 AM (in response to Mlavoie)
What we have:
- Communities reflect the company divisions and sub-divisions, and in some cases, locations or departments. These can only be created by community managers and admins. Our communities are either completely open, or are locked down to that specific division (so still have a very wide user base).
- Groups can be created by users, and tend to be hobby-, interest- or project-focused.
Sometimes, a department starts out with a group that they create on their own, and then will ask me to convert it to a community later. I will work with them to determine if that makes sense - do they need a group to be private to only their team? The whole company will see their group if we convert it into a community. I have also once moved a departmental group into a community because they needed to utilize sub-communities. Their taxonomy was deeper than what just categories could provide.
- I keep an eye on groups that are created, and if I see two that are similar, I send both group owners an email to let them know about each other's group, and ask if I can help move content over from one to the other.
- There are lots of private groups, but I don't necessarily see this as hindering collaboration. Sometimes people want to collaborate with the 10 people that sit near them, and feel more comfortable with that than if the entire company could see their conversations. (And, in fact, some people won't collaborate at all unless they have this assurance.)
- Hmm, no. Wish I could help you here. Anytime that two or more groups have to be merged, or a group into a community, I always offer to help with the content migration. I also usually coordinate a few volunteers, and we pick a time to work on this together - I will do the re-naming, merging, deleting of spaces/groups while they start on moving content, and then I join in and help with the content, too.
- I am not actually sure - the company was already using Jive with the basic community sitemap set up, and ability to have user-created groups, before my sub-division got on board and I was hired.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsvinjones Dec 21, 2011 12:09 PM (in response to Mlavoie)
This is how we have it set up:
One space (with a few subspaces). Only the CM can create.
Anyone can create Groups, but only OPEN or MEMBERS-ONLY Groups. No PRIVATE or SECRET groups can be created by users. They have to come to us and give us a good business justification for why they need to be hidden. And there are some.
During a pilot we let them have access to private & secret, and they almost all defaulted to that. So we had to put a stop to that ASAP. Now, if they can give us a justifiable reason they can have one. And this approach has not stopped people from creating communities.
I refuse to create Spaces that mimic the organizational structure. Talk about perpetuating the silo'd structure we are trying to bridge! If they create a Group for their org, then fine, but I don't advocate it. There are good uses, but mostly people want to use this structured to become even more silo'd.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsjohn.ellis Dec 21, 2011 12:25 PM (in response to vinjones)
We use spaces as the functional breakdown within our company, while groups are freeform created by anyone at anytime. What we've found is that giving people within that functional department the ability to create/manage content has worked extremely well when coupled with all other employees outside of that department being able to collaborate on various topics. Allowing the freedom to create groups (regardless of it's security - private, secret, open, or members only) has proven to give space administrators and system administrators more time to monitor the use of the various elements, rather than spending 50% of your time deciding on whether or not the group should be private or open. In most cases, people want to share information (I call BS on claims that "no on in my company does") and until now, haven't had a means to share information in a way that didn't take away from their job responsibilities.
We copied the departments for one reason - we want the business to have a voice into the users day to day jobs. Think of this as business-to-employee information (B2E). Groups however are the employee-to-employee (E2E) communication that gives the business insight into what's really important to their employees and gives them opportunity to catch that 1 million dollar idea.
When we first launched I wanted to be the czar over all of the space and group creation, but in the end realized that this is a SOCIAL enterprise system, and with that, it requires that the consumers define the use for 75% of the system. If you do this, you'll find that your user adoption, internal, external, and inter departmental communication increases 10 fold.
Just my $.02
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsnbussard Dec 21, 2011 12:39 PM (in response to john.ellis)
This is an interesting discussion. We currently are attempting to use groups as "lobbies"--we have renamed them as such--which essentially are a form of navigation to relevant groups. However, this hasn't worked out that great so far, and we're seriously considering getting rid of spaces altogether. We would use groups designated as "lobbies" and linked from the home page or global nav for our original purpose.
There are a few reasons for this. Mainly, no matter what we call them, people see spaces as being official and somehow better, so if they are at the Director level or above, they tend to think they need a space. Just because. We do have the ability to decide who gets a space/lobby, but we have seen in almost every case that as soon as someone gets that power, they realize they can also create sub-spaces and we get a hierarchy explosion that makes no sense. (Our philosophy has been that we should have no more than ~3 levels in spaces). Another problem is that lobbies/spaces have no concept of membership and don't show the owner names by default. They look like publishing vehicles, not social vehicles. People don't want to post in them because they don't know who they're talking to. By the same token, the space owners generally get frustrated because they keep asking who is joining their lobby and there is no easy way to tell this. As a result, we've ended up moving several of our lobbies to groups.
I have a litany of complaints against spaces and am happy to share more if anyone is interested. In theory I believe they have a place, but in practice they seem to be overly riddled with issues. Generally speaking, I feel like they are crutches for people (and I have been one of them, so no judgment here) who are not ready to dive in head first to social.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsjohn.ellis Dec 21, 2011 2:04 PM (in response to nbussard)
The biggest problem you're going to face if you choose not to use a space, is that the company loses it's voice. "silo-ing" in spaces doesn't happen because of the inherent functionality of Jive.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsjohn.ellis Dec 21, 2011 2:05 PM (in response to john.ellis)
Also, you don't have as much administrative control over the content in groups as you do in regards to spaces. Which is a major downfall.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsAkiko_san Dec 21, 2011 11:20 PM (in response to john.ellis)
We have spaces as means to help users navigate. We use only 5 spaces managed by Admin (News, Ideas, Help, Company, Life), which names determine what type of groups users may find there. It help searching, if, e.g. they want to find all groups related to company departments and activities, they go to Company.
Groups are more flexible and user-friendly, to my mind. Users learn to manage them easily. As for privacy, we set no restrictions, and I see that people make groups 'Secret' only while they are constructing them. I enjoy this because it means that our users embraced social nature of the system, and are not hiding content in their smaller groups.
Some of our groups are function-related, e.g. Office Administration. I think it's useful, because this is like a single point of contact for users with this function of HR.
As for administrative control, I don't think we should have too much of it. In Ukraine, have special policy, where do's and don'ts are written, and if I see any breach thereof, I simply address to the specific person with this rule. If possible, I offer solution.
Kind regards,
Sasha Kryshtapovych
Re: Spaces vs. Groupschris.comeaux Dec 22, 2011 5:55 AM (in response to vinjones)
I like the idea of only allowing the users to only freely create open groups (by the way, we've hidden the members-only option, since we are using internally, and people were misunderstanding that choice to mean private). If they want a private group they need to talk to someone first.
If Groups had some type of "permission group" membership, this would be a great way to avoid the need for a Space structure that I argue for in the earlier post. My focus in that post was how to prevent important content from becoming lost over time.
How it could work is...
- R&D Group A, team 1 wants a private group for their project
- They go to the community manager, show says OK, just add "R&D Group A Management" and "R&D Group A Senior Engineers" to your group.
- 3 years down the road, when the project is over, and people have scattered, the project participants, and the key mangement and senior people (half of whom have changed roles in those 3 years) still have access to that content
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsTim Gray Dec 22, 2011 7:05 AM (in response to chris.comeaux)
We're in the process of designing our community architecture - from a blank slate. We're leaning towards groups for most use cases. Perhaps a Help Space and a couple of others, but I want to make sure I have a complete understanding of the differences - If someone could point me to some content on point I'd appreciate (I did search for a couple of minutes). here's what I know so far:
no option for private secret etc
sub spaces are possible
can merge spaces
projects can be in a space
requires admin intervention to create
public, private sectret etc. (we are thinking initiallhy of disabling secret groups.)
can't nest
can't merge (strikes me as an odd omission - I'd think it would be more useful to merge groups than spaces)
projects can be in a group
anyone can create a group
I suspect there are some permission/governance functions I'm missing...
Re: Spaces vs. Groupscrossman Dec 22, 2011 10:32 AM (in response to Tim Gray)
no option for private secret etc
requires admin intervention to create
a) Depends on what you mean by private/secret. Spaces have much more granular permissions, so you can create spaces that have very limited access. Moreover, if the Jive user interface, you do not see and cannot find/search for spaces that you don't have permissions to see. So they are in effect "private". Spaces don't use an invitation model like groups do, however, if that's what you're references.
b) Spaces can be created by system admins as well as existing space admins (those with "full control" permissions). As noted elsewhere, this can sometimes be a problem if the local space admins are not very smart with their sub-space create and/or treat subspaces as equivalent to folders.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsAndrew Kratz Dec 22, 2011 7:21 AM (in response to Mlavoie)
We have one space (the community space) and 1300 groups after 6 months.
McGraw-Hill has an internal collaboration implementation where we replaced our corporate Intranet home page with Jive. We are in progress to convert a significant portion of our Intranet sites over to Jive as well. For us, we made a decsion early on not to use any spaces. We found that for new users(starting with the core team) that it is very confusing as to what a space is versus a group. We also didn't want to replicate our Intrnaet so we wanted groups to avoid the control thing of locking things down as you can do in Spaces. Having said that we do have communication people and department mgmt that have Intranet sites and do want to make sure the "official" views and messages of management are front and center. We found a number of ways to do that using social groups and have not had a lot of pushback. Some tips and tricks to do this include:
- Using featured content to highlight the key management blogs and messages.
- Using "view a document" widget to create a news feed that communication can have complete control over including linking to stories outside of our Jive instance, ordering, formatting the way the want etc..
- Using Formatted text and HTML widgets to create very nice graphical spaces for images/brand as well as functional features such as a key video, buttons to do certain functions etc...
- Use projects where "sub-group" segregation is required
- Use documents as their wiki or groups that want the web 1.0 "page after page of web pages"
- Use social groups or a formatted text widget with hard coded groups for related groups.
It is certainly not perfect, but having our Intranet and high level business units leverage groups does also allow individuals to create and contribute to a 2 way conversations. It puts people way outside their comfort zone at first, but it is being embraced.
So a minority viewpoint, I know, but thought I would share.
- Andrew
Always happy to discuss Jive implementations with other clients...just reach out.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsnbussard Dec 22, 2011 9:40 AM (in response to Andrew Kratz)
We have the same view as Andrew, as I mentioned earlier. These are great tips, and we generally follow these as well. Just to reiterate one point that Andrew touched on: for the people who insist on some type of hierarchy, you can achieve one level of hierarchy by creating projects under groups. Projects are essentially nothing more than groups with calendars and tasks. Remove these if you like and you get a subgroup. This option has helped us a lot when talking people down from the "I have to have a space" position.
One question about only allowing admins to create private and secret groups: how do you achieve this? Is it just a matter of hiding those options in the template? If so, I'm assuming you wold still have the option in the admin console?
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsErin Haines Dec 22, 2011 10:32 AM (in response to Mlavoie)
Thought I'd share how we have organization our community in terms of Groups vs Spaces:
Spaces = Work/Company. They represent corporate organization with set Spaces for each Department/Discipline, as well as Account teams
Groups = Social/Culture. Anyone can create (Open/Members Only) for any topic - except our client work.
This organization has worked, especially in terms our our Account Team Spaces - We have a policy that all our client related projects and collaboration on work must live in those Spaces. this allows us create and manage controlled user permission groups for the Account Spaces - as some of our clients require their work to be kept confidential (i.e. we have some use cases where we have competing clients from same industry). Our Department Spaces remain open to foster cross functional collaboration. We do allow for private sub-Spaces (and/or Groups) as needed, but it must be requested to our community managers; we try to keep these at a minimum, but sometimes they are necessary.
When we first launched, getting everyone onboard with the Spaces was a challenge, as everyone quickly started creating groups - basically re-creating the existing silos. Now that our Spaces are up and running, they are getting more traffic and I found that although they do represent our corporate structure and are more structured than groups, they are working and producing meaningful discussions and collaboration amongst our teams. I think they will get even better when we move to J5 and you can see who is following the Spaces.
The only complaint I have with Spaces, is that any Space admin can create sub-Spaces and as people are still not used to the software & using categories, they sometimes go bananas with creating sub-Spaces!
Re: Spaces vs. Groupscrossman Dec 22, 2011 10:38 AM (in response to Mlavoie)
Other groups vs. spaces discussions here in the community
Groups vs. Spaces in v4.5 (a decision matrix)
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsdisaacs Dec 22, 2011 12:19 PM (in response to crossman)
Our company is keeping spaces to a limit (currently a10-15). However, we have recently been discussing limiting the number to five spaces....very similar to @Akiko_san above. You can tell by all the varied answers that the wonderful benefit of a socio-collaborative tool is that there is no true right answer. I suppose there are best practices.
We asked ourselves what is our primary reason for getting Jive? We have a very strong SharePoint culture and also have a nice intranet. So using Jive for document storage and an intranet, is not really what we were after. Our objective was to engage employees, have an environment for employees to share innovative ideas and to build an easy to search knowledge base. If we eventually use Jive for our intranet, that would be great...but that was not one of our core objectives going in. With a desire to increase communication, connect employees and strengthen collaboration - focusing on groups made sense.
We allow groups to be open, members only, private or secret. We are a manufacturing company with strong background in engineering and IT. Engineers and IT users really like permissions and hierarchical structures. But they are embracing groups with the simple permission architecture. As my good friend @nbussard mentioned above, some of our uses have begun to use projects within groups to gain one level of hierarchy.
In a nutshell.....
Only the CM can create a space and we keep those limited. In my opinion too many structured spaces can weigh down the social part of the platform.
Anyone can create a group. Don't be afraid of conversations...they are already taking place outside of social media. Besides if someone starts a group that the company doesn't seem necessary, it has been my experience that other users won't see it necessary either and the group will die. Simple permissions for groups is nice. We use secret groups for R&D and negotiation projects. To get a plan...ask yourself what are your core purposes for Jive.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 9:48 AM (in response to Mlavoie)
I've read a lot on here and in other threads about the difference between Groups and Spaces, but most seems to refer to Jive 4.5 or earlier. Now that the project functionality is available in groups, can anyone tell me what the difference is between Groups and Spaces OTHER than Spaces allowing for hierarchical navigation through the creation of sub-spaces. If that's the only difference then that's helpful to know. When trying to explain the difference to people the hierarchical feature is the main thing I mention but I feel like I've possibly been leaving something else out, but perhaps not.
We only have one Space (for now) for the whole company and are evaluating the need to possibly allow the creation of additional ones (by request only) so that's why I need to know how to explain it properly to my stakeholders. The advice in here on strategy for using both has been very helpful. I just need to know the key differences in features. Thanks!
Re: Spaces vs. Groupscrossman Jul 25, 2012 9:55 AM (in response to Rob.Caldera)
1) Hierachy
2) Different membership/permissions model
- Groups - can be self-joining (open or member only), or managed directly in the UI (private or secret groups) rather than in the admin console as with Spaces.
- Permissions are less granular - if you're a member you can edit any content item in the group. With spaces you can restrict who can edit Blogs vs. discussions, etc.
- Permissions are only individual based - not based on membership in security groups. So, groups would not be a good option for a "private" group for a large section of an internal organization - since each user would have to individually register.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 10:42 AM (in response to crossman)
Kevin this is very helpful. Thanks. I thought the differences had to with some more permission settings but I wasn't sure. So in Spaces you can restrict who edits just about any content, while in Groups only Documents allow you to set permissions? See my reply to Nikki because it's a similar question.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsnbussard Jul 25, 2012 9:57 AM (in response to Rob.Caldera)
Hi Rob,
The biggest difference is in how the permissions are set. For Groups, the permissions are based on membership. That is, other than the group admins, everyone pretty much has the same permissions, which include the ability to create any content and in some cases (like documents) edit it as well. In Spaces, you can set much more fine-grained permissions similar to what you would be used to with SharePoint or other type of system.
If we were to make heavy use of Spaces, we would do so for pages that were formerly housed on our intranet: things like policies and processes that everyone needs to see but only a few should be able to edit. For collaboration among peers or departments, or any kind of ad-hoc collaboration, groups usually makes sense as there is no sense of hierarchy in terms of the permissions.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 10:39 AM (in response to nbussard)
Hi Nikki,
Thanks for this but I have a question on the permissions topic, as it relates to documents. In groups (in Jive 5) I can create a document and select who has access to edit it. So, in the example of policies, which is something that has come up here, it seems that I can set permissions the same way for the policy whether it's in a group or space. Any clarification on that? Am I misunderstanding something?
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsJenniferTh Jul 25, 2012 10:01 AM (in response to Rob.Caldera)
Some minor differences that actually have big impact for one of our business units deciding between groups and spaces right now:
- Groups have the ability for the admin/manager to message all members. Communities do not.
- Communities allow comment moderation on documents, but groups do not. (Groups do allow comment moderation on blog posts, though.)
I've always thought of the main differences as the sub-spaces, how members are managed (if you are setting up a private community - if it is open, this isn't relevant). These other smaller differences have just recently come up as important for us.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 10:48 AM (in response to JenniferTh)
Hi Jennifer, our Enterprise Community Manager has the ability to message all members of our Jive environment since it's all one giant space and he is the administrator of that. However, you say that in Communities this isn't possible. I assume by Communities you mean Spaces. We're on Jive 5, perhaps that's the difference.Can you clarify? Thanks.
The moderation aspect is another important difference. We discourage moderation in blogs since those comments would all go to the ECM of the Space and not to the group owner, since it's an administrative feature only of a Space. In fact, moderation may be one of the driving forces for us to allow another Space -- for sensitive topics around ethics and compliance, where it may be necessary. We wouldn't encourage it anywhere else though.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsJenniferTh Jul 25, 2012 10:54 AM (in response to Rob.Caldera)
Hi Rob - yes, sorry, we call spaces "communities" internally. A space admin doesn't have the funtion to message all members of a community (since communities don't really have members) as you do with groups. (Yes, there are other ways to get info into a space's followers' Activity or Inbox in Jive 5, but some people are still stuck in the "but I need to send an email" mindset.)
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsnbussard Jul 25, 2012 11:32 AM (in response to JenniferTh)
I have to say that the ability to send an email to everyone in the group/space has been a big issue for us. This is one of the main reasons we don't use Spaces much, and why I have transitioned several communities off of Spaces to Groups. Unfortunately, it's also one of the aspects that people tend to overlook until they've seeded all their content.
I still think Spaces would be good to use for the traditional transactional side of your intranet (many Jive customers are doing this), while Groups nearly always work well for collaboration. As you pointed out, Rob, you can set permissions on a single document, so most use cases are covered in groups. To clarify further, in Spaces you can create an entire permission group that allows you to assign rights at a granular level on content types as a whole. So, you can decide who can create or edit blog posts, for example.
Interestingly, I have never noticed that the moderation options are different between the two place types, so that is good to know. We rarely use moderation, and instead rely on the "report abuse" feature to allow people to flag any posts they think might be inappropriate. Generally speaking, I think turning moderation on discourages activity, but obviously there are certain industries, companies, or subject areas that would be exceptions to this rule.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 12:43 PM (in response to nbussard)
The ability to create entire permission groups in Spaces is interesting. I can easily see how that could be helpful here, especially for some risk management groups. However, I just came from a meeting where a key person on our team expressed concern over creating multiple spaces saying something to the effect of, "the day we allow multiple Spaces, is the day that Spark (our Jive instance) dies." The concern is that allowing a hierarchical feature like Spaces will cause a very conservative organization like ours to go back to our very siloed, top down mindset. And we've only just started our social business journey, so it's not as if we've made that much progress in this area anyway and Spaces might give us an excuse to continue the old ways. I think a balance could be found but I can definitely understand my co-workers concern. I may need to learn how to work around it.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsJenniferTh Jul 25, 2012 1:56 PM (in response to nbussard)
Nikki Bussard - we rarely use comment moderation, as well, and most of the groups who had it turned on have since turned it off as they found they were approving virtually all the comments, anyway, so it wasn't worth the extra effort. However, I find that with some new user groups within our system, people *think* they want comment moderation. I discourage it and explain that most people have turned it off, etc., but it seems to be a safety blanket for some of those who are uncertain as they step into the social space.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsnbussard Jul 25, 2012 1:58 PM (in response to JenniferTh)
Yes, good point. People need to see it for themselves, especially if they are new.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 12:27 PM (in response to JenniferTh)
I see. Our admin sends announcements into our Jive Inbox (system updates,etc.) so if you have your preferences set to get those by email too then you'll get it both ways. It's not the same as having the "company voice" for official comms but it is one way to reach all users.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsnbussard Jul 25, 2012 12:31 PM (in response to Rob.Caldera)
I think reaching all users is a little different from what I'm talking about. Owners of groups want the ability to email everyone in their group—not the whole company. Not everyone who is a member of the group follows, tracks, or receives email notifications. The ability to send them email directly reassures group owners when they feel it's important to get the attention of all the members.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsRob.Caldera Jul 25, 2012 2:28 PM (in response to nbussard)
I got it now. We're trying to discourage that. Even prior to implementing Jive we've been trying to cut down our internal emails by creating a site on our intranet for all broad communications, customized to the individual. Email is a hard habit to break though.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsFrankGebhardt Jul 26, 2012 6:35 PM (in response to Mlavoie)
This is a great discussion!
I'd like to add one element that became important to us after a year on using Jive. Some people in the organisation are natural web 2.0 natives. They love searching for content. They couldn't care less (to be blunt) if the content lives in a space or group. Then we have the other group. These guys think in systems and structure or processes. They are natural "Navigators". Search is not their first or natural way in finding stuff. No, they love the structure that is offered via spaces.
Hence we cater for both types. Not always easy and we regularly migrate stuff that originated in a group into a space later to fit it into the demands of culture, strategy and process.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsgrantc Jul 26, 2012 7:53 PM (in response to Mlavoie)
Groups vs Spaces can be confusing to some (especially as our site is also used by our clients) so we describe our site as being like a Hotel. The info below help members understand where to post stuff and why. We even have a cool graphic to illustrate this.
Here's what we say...
Groups - A private Group would be like your company's own private rooms or floor. Only invited guests, and people you know, will be able to enter and see and hear what you have to say - strangers are not allowed. Some ON-Brand Partners or Blacksmith people are also likely to be in private groups, to help with questions and provide guidance as they would in person.
Special Interest Groups - Dependent on your role and personal interests, you may choose to join a Special Interest Group (Contact Centre, HR etc). These are like the Hotel Conference rooms where you can meet like-minded people. Just 'Browse' to see what Groups are available
Spaces - Open Spaces can be compared to the Hotels lobby, restaurant, and conference centre where people from the wider community chat on topics of shared interest. Here, you can socialise with a range of different people from other organisations - many of whom you may not have previously known, but potentially you can learn a lot from each other. Gary Hamels comment is relevant here "My fundamental belief is that if a company wants to see the future, 80% of what it is going to have to learn, will be from outside it's own industry."
Personal Profile - This is like open-mic night in the Hotel bar. Under your own Personal Profile e.g. Mark Smith, you can create a Personal Blog and Updates which are open for all to see – this is your own space to share questions, concepts and articles important to you and you think the wider community would appreciate.
Re: Spaces vs. GroupsTim Gray Jul 27, 2012 7:30 AM (in response to grantc)
Spaces - Open Spaces can be compared to the Hotels lobby, restaurant, and conference centre where people from the wider community chat on topics of shared interest. Here, you can socialise with a range of different people from other organisations - many of whom you may not have previously known, but potentially you can learn a lot from each other. Gary Hamels comment is relevant here "My fundamental belief is that if a company wants to see the future, 80% of what it is going to have to learn, will be from outside it's own industry."
Couldn't this also be a pubic group? We are leaning stongly towards groups for now and leaving Spaces for the point in time when/if we want to think about migrating our Intranet to Jive - or at least a use case that more resembles a controlled intranet than a user driven group.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsgrantc Jul 29, 2012 2:08 PM (in response to Tim Gray)
Could be but because people to actually do something to join a Public Group, we have gone for Spaces where there is no such requirement. We also like the fact that we can use the Spaces vs Groups titles to help describe/delineate what is an open shared space for all vs an area that is permission based.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsa_behrens Aug 14, 2013 5:35 PM (in response to Mlavoie)
A year later I'm responding so I have no idea if this will get viewed. We are working through a case now where a request to start a Space or "page" as we call them was requested in lieu of an existing group. Instead of a yes/no we are going to review the goals/objectives/requirements/and performance indicators of the requestor and make the decision. Because the initial request will require custom development from our developer we have to proceed with caution.
The goal is build a sort of "decision matrix" or flow chart that will help us and our audience figure out the best possible solution - Space? Group? Sub-Space? or simply a widget? If anyone is interested we'll publish the document we end up creating.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsroguen Aug 14, 2013 9:04 PM (in response to a_behrens)
I would certainly be interested in seeing that matrix.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsrossc Aug 15, 2013 6:55 AM (in response to a_behrens)
We would also love to see that matrix. We're on a path to avoid Spaces entirely in favor of Groups, but early enough that we could change our minds... LOVED the details in this thread, but I have to believe Jive has made a lot of changes in 2 years that impact the functionality and controls. I wonder if folks would mind revisiting this topic and refreshing any details that they happen to know have changed?
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsa_behrens Aug 15, 2013 1:06 PM (in response to Mlavoie)
Ok team,
Below is my first crack at a decision matrix. Feel free to comment, add, edit, test, break, love, hate, fix. Let's practice what we preach and crowdsource this.
Audience: Any community member requesting a specific environment.
Objective: Create a simple tool to help you CM and user decide on the appropriate tactic.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupscrossman Aug 15, 2013 2:39 PM (in response to a_behrens)
You know your organization better than I do but I feel like most of the items there could be equally addressed by Spaces or Groups, so am not sure why they would be separate line items.
Limiting access to a managed set of users is certainly a key aspect of spaces, compared to groups there Private/Secret group membership must be actively accepted by a member before they are granted access to the container.
Re: Spaces vs. Groupsa_behrens Aug 15, 2013 3:12 PM (in response to crossman)
We have a unique and customized structure so this may not make as much sense. We also are working on helping our community build business requirements and objectives in the context of a social platform.


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These days, in Melbourne, the craft beer scence has exploded and there's really good stuff. I've also had a great variety of wines and am enjoying that more than ever. Also, went to a scotch tasting night and learnt about how varied they are.
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Best balance for Yankee John Kerry's presidential ticket: He adds Southerner John Edwards to the VP slot July 6.
Best news for Guantanamo Bay prisoners: The U.S. Supreme Court rules the nearly 600 accused terrorists from Afghanistan, who've been held over two years, must get their day in court.
Most bungled legislation: A law attempting to repeal "blue laws" mistakenly gives workers the option of taking Sundays off as a "day of rest," leaving employers scrambling. A court issues a stay, and yet another special session of the General Assembly may be called to repair the law, which took effect July 1.
Biggest acquittal: An Orange County judge finds Donna Somerville, the so-called "Black Widow," not guilty June 29 of poisoning her rich husband, Hamilton "Ham" Somerville.
Biggest trial surprise: Not a shred of direct evidence tying her to the alleged crime.
Biggest batch of destroyed DNA: More than 160 DNA samples collected in the search for the City's serial rapist have been destroyed, and another 50 are headed for the incinerator this week, according to Reed Williams in the Daily Progress.
Biggest dismissal: Rape charges against "DJ Twist" Jefferson Ward, a former WNRN disc jockey, are dropped July 1, Liesel Nowak reports in the Progress. Ward was accused of drugging a woman who said she awoke to find him having sex with her. Prosecutors announce that physical evidence failed to support the allegations.
Latest suspension: George Albert Bates' license to practice law is suspended– again– after a felony conviction for bashing his brother over the head with a bat. Bates, who's been reprimanded by the Virginia State Bar four times, is serving a 20-month sentence at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail.
Worst report card: Clark Elementary doesn't have enough students passing the SOLs, so parents can choose to send their children to another school under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Best hospital: UVA Medical Center– at least for nine specialties, according to U.S. News & World Report's July 12 issue.
Newest historic marker: The Inge Family Store, now the site of West Main restaurant, at the corner of Fourth Street NW, is honored as a center for commercial and social life in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood during the days of segregation. George P. Inge founded Inge's Grocery in 1891.
Hottest hunk: Actor and UVA grad Shawn Patrick Thomas is on the cover of Ebony's "Hottest TV Hunks" issue.
Biggest Wimbledon upset: 17-year-old Russian babe Maria Sharapova snatches the title from the formidable Williams sisters.
Best choice for a New York Times guest columnist: Award-winning writer and Charlottesville resident Barbara Ehrenreich appears on the op-ed page on Thursdays and Sundays in July.
Greatest loss of an acting icon: Marlon Brando, 80, dies July 1.
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Multiple insiders have been buying at Chemtura Corporation US:CHMT, a $2-billion-market-cap specialty chemicals company. Consensus insider buying is a particularly bullish signal, and so we looked particularly closely here. Chemtura trades at 18 times trailing earnings, but in recent quarters net income has been pulled down by special charges.
With those expected to dissipate over time, it's reasonable to expect its numbers to be considerably better in the future. Billionaire James Dinan's York Capital Management owned 2.8 million shares of Chemtura at the end of the third quarter, though this was down 12% from the beginning of July. (Check out billionaire Dinan's stock picks.)
The CEO of AK Steel Holding Corporation AKS, -6.06% bought 100,000 shares of stock at an average price of $3.85. Steel companies such as AK and United States Steel Corporation have been hit hard by poor demand stemming from weak macro growth in Europe and China. AK Steel's stock is down 50% in the last year, and the company is unprofitable on a trailing basis. Analysts expect it to have positive earnings in 2013 — the forward P/E is 24 — and the CEO buying is a positive sign. It's likely that other steel companies, or possibly metallurgical coal producers tied to steel production, might be performing better at the moment and face a similar upside if the steel market recovers.
Ken Miller, a Board member at Loews Corporation L, -2.84%, invested about $200,000 in the company — a roughly 40% increase in his stake. Loews operates an insurance company, energy businesses such as contract-drilling services and pipelines, and hotels. Renaissance Technologies, founded by billionaire Jim Simons, initiated a position in the company during the third quarter (find more stock picks from Renaissance).
However, by comparing the company to a portfolio of peers in industries matching Loews' business lines- including The Travelers Companies and Transocean LTD, we concluded that the less focused Loews isn't necessarily a good buy at its current valuation.
One of Altisource Portfolio Solutions' ASPS, -2.45% board members bought 1,000 shares of the company for $103.87 per share. Altisource is a mortgage-portfolio management-services company, and its earnings were up 57% in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2011. Billionaire Leon Cooperman's Omega Advisors has been selling shares (see Cooperman's new stock picks), though the fund may be locking in profits after the stock has risen about 300% in the last two years.
We had thought that taking profits would be a good idea here as well, since Altisource is higher priced on a forward earnings basis than its peers and depends on continued higher growth to justify that premium.
Sealed Air Corp SEE, -3.02% Board member Kenneth Manning bought 5,000 shares of stock at an average price of $17. Sealed Air provides packaging for sealing in food and for protecting shipped goods (for example, it produces Bubble Wrap). A recent acquisition has caused higher sales, but not as much of an increase in operating income (in addition, the number of shares outstanding has increased. Wall Street analysts expect good earnings-per-share numbers, implying a forward P/E multiple of 13, but this seems dependent on stronger business performance.
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Yamaha Debuts New Helm Master Controls and F200 Outboard
An entire digital control system with power steering for Yamaha F350 V8 and 4.2-liter V6 outboards will be sold as OEM products only, beginning in March.
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Yamaha Outboards will debut a number of new outboard motor products in the spring of 2013, including Helm Master, an integrated digital boat control system with a joystick, and an all-new, lightweight F200 outboard. Both will have a public debut at the Miami International Boat Show in February.
Yamaha presented the new product to the media at its Bridgeport, Ala., engineering center. I'll get a chance to sample it all on the water another day... but here are the highlights.
Helm Master
Helm Master has a joystick control for twin or triple outboard installations, but there's a lot more to the system. In development for four years, it includes a new digital throttle-and-shift console with a throttle speed control, single-lever control for up to three motors, and automatic trim that senses engine rpm and trims the motors to a pre-set program specific to the boat.
Other elements of Helm Master include electronic RFID chip "keys," a new five-inch LCD display screen, and a digital helm mated to power steering. The joystick has two power settings, a standard for typical conditions and "high" for situations where wind or current call for more thrust.
Initially Helm Master will be sold only as an entire system (the throttle and shift control will not be available separately), and only as an OEM product for installation by boat builders. It's compatible with the Yamaha F350B V8 and all Yamaha 4.2-liter Offshore V6 outboard models. No word yet on price, but because it's going to be sold through boat builders, those builders will have some influence on the cost.
The main benefit of the joystick is low-speed maneuverability, and Yamaha showed us video of a big triple-rig boat gliding sideways between two boats up to a dock, but it seems that Helm Master will offer many other interesting features.
The new F200 is a 2.8-liter, four-cylinder four-stroke outboard that weighs 487 pounds, which Yamaha says is 111 pounds less than its 3.3-liter F200 V6, which will remain in production. The new motor has a 16-valve, double over-head cam design with variable valve timing for a broader power band. This narrow four-cylinder motor can be mounted on 26-inch centers, an important factor for the repower market, where a pair can drop right in place of older V6 two-stroke motors. It will be offered with either digital or cable controls, and in 20- and 25-inch lengths.
Another version of the same motor, the VF SHO 150, is aimed at the bass market, where Yamaha says the 2.8-liter four-stroke will match the performance of a two-stroke 150 in both speed and acceleration. No price information on the F200 or SHO 150 has been offered. I'll be back with more technical details and first impressions from the water as soon as possible.


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And what great highlights those were! That is some special tour you took! Good luck in Stanford!
Elizabeth – have a wonderful time! We'll keep the faith for you!
Great pictures Elizabeth!! Hope you have a great time out there!!
The great books summer program sounds like so much fun. I wish they had something like that where I went to high school, I would've loved to participate. Have fun at Stanford!-Erinhttp://plunking-gomez.mlblogs.com
Wow, I hope you have a great time for the next few weeks!! That sounds pretty cool. We'll miss you. Check out my blog's birthday entry!!
Enjoy Stanford. My girlfriend is a research graduate in the developmental biology department there. Maybe you should sneak out to AT&T Park and catch a Giants game if you get the chance? You can easily take the Caltrain from Palo Alto right to the ballpark near the San Francisco 4th & King station. It's always a wonderful place to watch a ballgame!
Well, since I have no idea how to Twitter, or Tweet, or whatever the verb form is, I'll have to wait for your next post to see what you've been doing. Hope you have a great time – sounds like a wonderful opportunity for you!
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have fun. great pics from the fenway trip
Cool! Have fun… wish I had an opportunity like that when I was your age. Still, I look forward to reading about it when you get back.
Congrats on #5! Hope the trip is going well!
Hey, Elizabeth …
Enjoy your trip !!! … It sounds like a great way to spend three weeks in the beginning of the summer !!! … I look forward to your next post when you return from your wonderful experience, like you said, in your above post, "reading some of the greatest, most obscure literature that one can imagine" !!! … That truly sounds "awesome" !!!
Take care, Elizabeth; and, "Congratulations" on your #5 ranking on the June, 2009, Fans Mlblogs Leader's List !!!
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Have a great time and I look forward to you coming back and writing more!
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Have fun at the book camp.
Have fun at camp!! Love the pictures by the way, and when you come back to the baseball world, there will be a lot of reading to do then!! I am going to a game on Thursday, and I hope to have uploaded pictures onto my blog by the weekend, so maybe, you can see Jacoby's amazing catches and Brad Penny heating up Fenway Park. And congratulations on your #5 spot in the June 2009 update. Keep blogging!!
The didn't have the Monster seats when I went to Fenway as a kid. Very cool view! Hope that you are having a great summer, equally as great as your Red Sox so far.


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With uncertain future, Army reloads
To come out a winner — or at least less of a loser — in the impending defense budget battles, each military service needs a believable story about whom it's going to fight and where.
For the Navy and the Air Force — and, to some extent, the Marine Corps — that narrative is already taking shape. The Obama administration's so-called pivot to Asia means air and naval power is going to be in high demand as the strategic guidance released by the Pentagon in January made clear.
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But for the Army, the strategic guidance was less helpful. It essentially said: Large-scale nation-building is off the table. We're not going to repeat Iraq anytime soon.
So what the Army will do instead is still up for debate.
Faced with uncertainty, the Army is fighting an uphill battle not only to win internal Pentagon budget fights but also to convince Congress of its strategy.
"The combination of declining budgets and the shift to the Asia-Pacific region clearly leaves the Army with less to do," one congressional source told POLITICO.
To make its case inside the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, the Army knows it has to not only look into the crystal ball but also be mindful that lessons from the past can be equally persuasive.
POLITICO got a glimpse into the Army's planning for the future at a recent gathering of three- and four-star generals at the National Defense University in Washington.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno, seated at the head table, led the discussion. And as it went on, the brass spent considerable time discussing operations to counter weapons of mass destruction and seabasing, a term for operations that can be conducted without relying on infrastructure ashore.
While both could play a big role in the future, the first is mostly viewed as the realm of elite special operations forces, and seabasing has long been a favorite buzzword for the Marine Corps and the Navy.
To some, discussions like these give the impression that the Army is grasping for scenarios where it can be useful.
"In an era of a declining force, the Army needs to focus in on core missions that only the Army — not the Marines or U.S. Special Operations Command — can accomplish. Based on what I've heard, that is not what the Army is doing," the congressional source said.
The group of senior Army officers also discussed at length how the Army would continue to engage with the world and build partnerships with foreign armies when many of its troops will be stationed at home.
This is one area where the Army is getting it right, said retired Lt. Gen. Dave Barno, now a senior adviser at the Center for a New American Security.
"The Army is not just an emergency device behind glass, and you break the glass if you have a war," he told POLITICO in an interview. "The Army really sees a role for itself, rightfully, in being out there and engaging with other militaries around the world."
While the leadership summit at times sounded like the Army officers were reassuring themselves of the Army's role in the future, there were also frank acknowledgments about the challenges the service is facing in making its case.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study adds to evidence that skin patches offer a safer alternative to pills for women who want to treat their menopausal symptoms with hormones.
The study, of 54,000 women who used hormone replacement therapy (HRT), found that those who used estrogen patches were one-third less likely to develop blood clots in the legs or lungs.
That was in comparison to women who used estrogen-only pills. Past studies have found that hormone-patch users have a lower blood clot risk than women who take oral HRT containing both estrogen and progesterone.
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The current findings are based instead on health insurance claims from just over 54,000 women who used HRT at some point between 2002 and 2009.
"Our study corroborates the literature with data from the real-world setting," Lefebvre said.
Analysis Group, Inc. conducted the study with funding from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, a maker of hormone therapy patches.
The number of women using HRT plummeted in 2002 after a large U.S. clinical trial found that women on estrogen-plus-progesterone pills had higher risks of blood clots, heart attack, stroke and breast cancer than placebo users did.
Up to that point, HRT had been prescribed to prevent heart disease and osteoporosis — which experts now advise against.
However, hormone therapy remains the most effective way to ease menopausal hot flashes, so some women with severe symptoms opt for it. Because of the risks, they are advised to use HRT at the lowest dose and for the shortest time possible.
There is growing evidence, though, that low-dose patches may not carry all the risks that pills do.
Researchers think hormone patches may be less risky than pills because of the way they work. Unlike oral hormones, those delivered via skin patch bypass the liver, and may not boost clot-promoting proteins in the blood.
In the current study, women used hormone therapy for just over a year, on average.
Of the roughly 27,000 women who used estrogen-only pills, 164 developed blood clots in the leg veins or the lungs — for a rate of almost 0.6 percent per year. Of the 27,000 women who used estrogen patches, 115 developed a blood clot — a rate of 0.4 percent each year.
Blood clots in the lungs are potentially fatal. Clots in the legs are dangerous as well, because they can break off and travel to the lungs, or to arteries supplying the heart or brain, where they can trigger a heart attack or stroke.
Coupled with past studies, the new findings suggest that for women who want to try hormones to ease hot flashes, patches could be a safer alternative.
However, the patches tend to be more expensive than the pills, which usually cost less than $15 a month for generic versions.
But Lefebvre said the bottom line for women is to be aware that there are different options for managing menopausal symptoms. "The decision on how to treat must be an individual one based on discussion with your doctor."
Some women may be able to ease hot flashes with simple changes, like sleeping in a cool room and watching their intake of caffeine, alcohol and hot, spicy foods. And there's some evidence that yoga, meditation or other relaxation techniques can be helpful.
In some cases of more-bothersome hot flashes, doctors prescribe low doses of certain antidepressants. Vaginal dryness, another common menopause symptom, may be treatable with topical estrogen, which delivers much less of the hormone into the bloodstream versus pills.
As for alternative remedies for hot flashes, some studies have suggested that soy, black cohosh and other sources of phytoestrogens (plant-based estrogen-like chemicals) may help; other studies, however, have found no such benefit.
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Happy Birthday, Victoria Beckham: 12 Celebs Who Rock Her Stylish Looks!
The stilettos, the tailored mid-length dresses, the chic asymmetrical bob that became the new "Rachel" 'do?! We have a lot to thank the glamorous Victoria Beckham for. And today, April 17th, is the day to put a few minutes aside, and pay homage to the British bombshell.
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Instead of singing "Happy Birthday" in our best Spice Girls costumes from afar, OK! wants to celebrate Victoria's birthday by highlighting one of her other many talents. And the one that we'll never get over, besides the fact that she the hottest hubby in the world, is her design skills.
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Victoria Beckham has made her mark on the fashion community and mingles with design legends like Diane von Furstenberg and Donatella Versace. Her dresses do no wrong. Seriously, they look totally flattering on just about anyone who puts one on.
And because we knew her 39th birthday was just around the corner, we had to get a fellow designer's opinion. Silvia Arguello from NBC's Fashion Star told us that Victoria Beckham has mastered the reinvention of herself.
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"I think something that is very important in a designer is the fact of reinventing your own self and the fact of being flexible and being open to change. That reinventing of Victoria Beckham—you see her in totally different styles, totally different hairdos, and in totally different situations. And she's always nails it," says Silvia.
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Her Twitter fans seem to agree with that statement, too. Chelle Northcut @ChelleNorthcutt says, "The lady can dress like no other!!"
Looks like we're all on the same page! Happy Birthday, Victoria! Click through to see all the celebs who just dazzle in her designs.
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