Webjam Company Blog » Webjam Wins Digital Impact Awards 2010!

Our very own intranet 'JamJar' has won the gold prize in Communicate Magazine's Digital Impact Awards 2010 for 'Best Intranet'. We won in the category "Best Use of Digital to an Internal Audience: Best intranet". This award requires companies to demonstrate how their Intranet has successfully tackled specific challenges, to deliver tangible results, as well as the strategy driving the implementation.

The awards were created by Communicate Magazine to “recognise excellence in digital stakeholder communications” and to bring greater attention to issues of online reputation and brand management.

We are very proud of this award. There were over 300 entries and we competed in the shortlist against other high-profile enterprises such as Credit Suisse and Royal Mail. As a provider of solutions for social publishing and engagement, we applied our knowledge and experience in implementing Enterprise 2.0 solutions to our own internal community: enhancing engagement between Webjam employees and improving understanding of our own company and offerings via an interactive and stimulating platform. 

By using JamJar regularly, our employees also get to experience the company’s social engagement offering first-hand.  Everyone within Webjam becomes an expert in the product, which encourages feedback and helps with product development.  New starters find it particularly useful as an introduction to the company and to other staff. Since its launch in April, Webjam has seen a drop in internal email traffic of 57 per cent, as ongoing discussions move onto the internal social network as conversations.  So far, the company has seen 100 ideas and 25 projects generated from the platform in the past three months, and most of them were inspired by simple, informal dialogues driven by staff within the organisation.

Next week we will hear if we win the The DigiAwards 2010 organised by CorpComms. Now in its fifth year, this award recognises the best use of digital media in communication strategies.  Webjam has been shortlisted along with three other entries out of 12 submissions, for the Best Use of Digital Media in the Internal Communications category.