Intranet Wire

Waiting for NMCI : INteresting article about the Navy and Marine Corp intranet — NMCI. It’s apparently…somewhat unloved. The article concentrates on…

Succeeding with Intranet 1.0 Before Plunging into Intranet 2.0 : This author makes the assertion that too many people are ready to jump into Intranet…

Intranet pipe dream becomes reality for Hynds Group : Interesting case study of an intranet built on top of Lotus Notes. Could have used some…

Movable Type Community Solution: Create a Powerful Online Community : Movable Type, the blogging powerhouse, has embraced social networking with its…

The VLE/LMS is dead : This writer argues that the “virtual learning environment” or “learning management system” — such as Blackboard or Moodle — has…

Using Wikis with software developers : Here’s some fantastic advice for where the wiki meets the road. While wikis are the darlings of theory,…

We love social networks…no, wait, we hate them…no wait… : Some interesting notes on the inherent conflict about social network inside most companies.…

Fewer employees use intranets to support work : A magazine out of Ireland points out what many of us already know, though the numbers hint at the…

An intranet chock full of web 2.0 : Short case study of an intranet redesign at a public library, and how they built some social networking tools…

Intranets 2.0 : This writer attended the Intranets 07 conference in Sydney, and — as was expected — everyone was talking about “Enterprise 2.0.” The…

Top Intranet Trends: Usability, Access, Personalization : A report from the Global Benchmarking Forum sponsored from the Intranet Benchmarking Forum…

Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Intranet : This is probably the ultimate manifestation of the social networking craze in the intranet space. It’s…

The same old intranet crap : A nice rant with a pretty clear message: your employees will take your intranet just as seriously as you do. Your…

Make it useful and they’ll love it : This is a short story about how a simple intranet-based solution took hold at an organization and solved a much…

Defining a Model for Content Governance : This is a brilliant article that’s long on questions. It’s a bit short on answers, but that’s okay because…

The problem of emergence : This is simple but necessary point about the “emergence” trend that everyone is talking about these days . The point is…

This article is three years old, but it’s still quite good because it captures and attempts to solve an important truth: knowledge management is…

Avoiding Dangerous Intranet Managers : This is a unintentionally humorous article about how putting the wrong person in charge of a department’s…

3 stages that you go through when wikis come into your organisation : This is a great blog post that addresses what I think is one of the biggest…

Intranet case study: Perkins Eastman :A case study of an intranet built “Practice Area Communities” . The purpose of each Practice Area Community PAC…

Mozilla CEO: Why we’re still shunned by corporate IT : This article is year old, but the point still holds true. While many IT directors do allow…

Intranet Project Names - Some Ideas : Why are so many intranets called “The Intranet”? If not that, you see two common derivations: a “-net” suffix…

Intranet design is not about design, stupid : An argument against putting too much emphasis on the design of your intranet. That’s not to say that…

Making CMS work: models for content governance : Content management — on intranets or public Web sites — is almost always presented as a technical…

The state of Enterprise 2.0 : This is a dense article, but a good one. However, let’s backtrack for a second – Last year, Andrew McAfee from Harvard…

Are Intranets the Single Biggest Social Networking Opportunity? : Adopting social networking ideas on intranets is the hot new thing lately — it…

Weather and Your Intranet : A simple idea to improve a common feature of a lot of intranets. […] display the weather for all [your] offices in one…

Intranets have a flavor. Put another way, when someone says “intranet,” what do you think of? A collaboration system? A method of disseminating news?…

Onomi: Social Bookmarking on a Corporate Intranet : MITRE tried social bookmarking on their intranet. They took Scuttle , an open-source bookmark…

I’ve become interested lately in the concept of emergent behavior in intranets. I read Andrew McAfee’s seminal white paper “Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn…

2007 Intranet Design Awards : The Nielsen Norman Group has named the winners of their annual Intranet Design Awards. On this promo page, they appear…

Embarrassing training gap for web writer/editors : If the quality of writing on your intranet is bad, this survey from A List Apart might explain…

Intranet management evolution - independence for intranet teams : Ownership of a organization’s intranet is usually a battle between two groups: IT…

Search Lessons : Whenever I’ve implemented a search engine on an intranet, the first thing I realize is that the content base is not ready for a…

What is good intranet content? : An interesting thought on the difference between intranets and Internet sites. One dangerous idea I have seen…

In-house internet aims to recapture staff attention : Given the level of user apathy about most intranets, companies are trying to make their…

To tag or not to tag : Tony Bryne from CMS watch makes the argument that tagging and general content classification is so important, that it becomes…

Killer Web Content Examples : Gerry McGovern conducted an experiment in order to determine what headlines and summaries work best: People were asked…

Intranet change management : As a developer, when I hear “change management” I instantly start thinking about source code management, Subversion,…

Does an ideal dashboard exist? : This question over at LinkedIn asks about the current state of digital dashboards. In your opinion, are existing…

10 ways to continuously improve your intranet : A solid article from the folks at Step Two filled with some good advice. This bit, in particular,…

Social tools for Internal Communications : This is a dense but interesting summary of a discussion that took place at The Social Media Forum for…

Building a Culture of Collaboration : This isn’t about intranets in particular, but it discusses different ways companies get employees to…

Intranet redesign for Canon Australia : A detailed case study on the analysis phase behind an intranet redesign from the experts at Step Two . One…

Intranet Usability Shows Huge Advances : This gets a little technical with the statistics, and it has a big implied sales pitch for one of the…

Behind Closed Web Sites: A Look at Three Nonprofit Intranets : A quick look at three intranets, ranging from simple and more-or-less free, to complex…

The Secret of Intranet Adoption : A post from our sister blog, Gadgetopia , about why some intranets work, and some don’t, despite the same level of…