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Nielsen Finds that Intranet Usability Increases
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- October 12, 2007
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- 104
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…
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Profiles of Three Non-Profit Intranets
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- October 12, 2007
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- 149
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…
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Why Intranets Don’t Get Adopted
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- October 12, 2007
- Words
- 143
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…
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Canon Australia Case Study: No Global Home Page
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- October 13, 2007
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- 254
Intranet redesign for Canon Australia : A detailed case study on the analysis phase behind an intranet redesign from the experts at Step Two . One…
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How to Foster Collaboration in your Organization
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- October 14, 2007
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- 181
Building a Culture of Collaboration : This isn’t about intranets in particular, but it discusses different ways companies get employees to…
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Using Social Tools in the Enterprise to Filter Information
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- October 15, 2007
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- 216
Social tools for Internal Communications : This is a dense but interesting summary of a discussion that took place at The Social Media Forum for…
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Tips for Improving Your Intranet Incrementally
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- October 15, 2007
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- 306
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,…
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The Human Side of Change Management
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- October 16, 2007
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- 146
Intranet change management : As a developer, when I hear “change management” I instantly start thinking about source code management, Subversion,…
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Thoughts on the “Ideal” Dashboard
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- October 16, 2007
- Words
- 177
Does an ideal dashboard exist? : This question over at LinkedIn asks about the current state of digital dashboards. In your opinion, are existing…
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Tagging as a Job Requirement?
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- October 17, 2007
- Words
- 179
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…
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Don’t Make Your Users Stick
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- October 17, 2007
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- 125
What is good intranet content? : An interesting thought on the difference between intranets and Internet sites. One dangerous idea I have seen…
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Ideas to Make Your Intranet More Interesting
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- October 17, 2007
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- 248
In-house internet aims to recapture staff attention : Given the level of user apathy about most intranets, companies are trying to make their…
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Write Better Headlines
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- October 17, 2007
- Words
- 129
Killer Web Content Examples : Gerry McGovern conducted an experiment in order to determine what headlines and summaries work best: People were asked…
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Emergent Behavior and Your Intranet
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- October 18, 2007
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- 798
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…
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Why Neither IT Nor Communications Should Own the Intranet
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- October 18, 2007
- Words
- 264
Intranet management evolution - independence for intranet teams : Ownership of a organization’s intranet is usually a battle between two groups: IT…
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Your Intranet Needs SEO
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- October 18, 2007
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- 195
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…
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Nielsen Norman Group Crowns 2007 Intranet Design Winners
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- October 18, 2007
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- 208
2007 Intranet Design Awards : The Nielsen Norman Group has named the winners of their annual Intranet Design Awards. On this promo page, they appear…
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Web and Intranet Writers Are Rarely Trained
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- October 18, 2007
- Words
- 163
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…
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The Onomi Project: A Case Study in Enterprise Social Bookmarking
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- October 19, 2007
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- 276
Onomi: Social Bookmarking on a Corporate Intranet : MITRE tried social bookmarking on their intranet. They took Scuttle , an open-source bookmark…
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Tip for Displaying the Weather
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- October 20, 2007
- Words
- 76
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…
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What Flavor is Your Intranet?
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- October 20, 2007
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- 506
Intranets have a flavor. Put another way, when someone says “intranet,” what do you think of? A collaboration system? A method of disseminating news?…
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Content Governance: What Happens When the Consultants Leave?
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- October 24, 2007
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- 337
Making CMS work: models for content governance : Content management — on intranets or public Web sites — is almost always presented as a technical…
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Why Social Networking and Intranets are a Good Fit
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- October 24, 2007
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- 132
Are Intranets the Single Biggest Social Networking Opportunity? : Adopting social networking ideas on intranets is the hot new thing lately — it…
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The State of Enterprise 2.0
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- October 24, 2007
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- 461
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…
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Branding Your Intranet Through Its Name and “Personality”
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- October 25, 2007
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- 397
Intranet Project Names - Some Ideas : Why are so many intranets called “The Intranet”? If not that, you see two common derivations: a “-net” suffix…
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This Isn’t a Beauty Contest
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- October 25, 2007
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- 371
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…
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Case Study: Perkins Eastman
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- October 29, 2007
- Words
- 118
Intranet case study: Perkins Eastman :A case study of an intranet built “Practice Area Communities” . The purpose of each Practice Area Community PAC…
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Why IE Rules the Intranet
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- October 29, 2007
- Words
- 91
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…
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Intranet Manager Field Guide
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- October 30, 2007
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- 110
Avoiding Dangerous Intranet Managers : This is a unintentionally humorous article about how putting the wrong person in charge of a department’s…
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Wikis: It’s All About Fear
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- October 30, 2007
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- 209
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…
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Emergence May Need Help
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- October 31, 2007
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- 213
The problem of emergence : This is simple but necessary point about the “emergence” trend that everyone is talking about these days . The point is…
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Making Sense of Knowledge Management
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- October 31, 2007
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- 455
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…
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Away Today
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- November 01, 2007
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- 126
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…
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The Difficulties of Content Governance
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- November 01, 2007
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- 215
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…
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Your Intranet Isn’t a Dumping Group
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- November 02, 2007
- Words
- 81
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…
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Facebook as Your Actual Intranet
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- November 04, 2007
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- 157
Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Intranet : This is probably the ultimate manifestation of the social networking craze in the intranet space. It’s…
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Intranets 2.0: The Battle for Tacit Knowledge
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- November 06, 2007
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- 282
Intranets 2.0 : This writer attended the Intranets 07 conference in Sydney, and — as was expected — everyone was talking about “Enterprise 2.0.” The…
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Top Intranet Trends According to the IBF
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- November 06, 2007
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- 133
Top Intranet Trends: Usability, Access, Personalization : A report from the Global Benchmarking Forum sponsored from the Intranet Benchmarking Forum…
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Case Study: Pierce County Library
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- November 08, 2007
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- 89
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…
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Intranet Usage Survey Results
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- November 09, 2007
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- 96
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…
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When Social Networking and Corporate Policy Collide
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- November 10, 2007
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- 130
We love social networks…no, wait, we hate them…no wait… : Some interesting notes on the inherent conflict about social network inside most companies.…
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Tips for Making Wikis Actually Work
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- November 10, 2007
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- 118
Using Wikis with software developers : Here’s some fantastic advice for where the wiki meets the road. While wikis are the darlings of theory,…
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Is the LMS Obsolete?
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- November 11, 2007
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- 112
The VLE/LMS is dead : This writer argues that the “virtual learning environment” or “learning management system” — such as Blackboard or Moodle — has…
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Movable Type Community Solution
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- November 14, 2007
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- 94
Movable Type Community Solution: Create a Powerful Online Community : Movable Type, the blogging powerhouse, has embraced social networking with its…
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Case Study: Hynds Group
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- November 16, 2007
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- 64
Intranet pipe dream becomes reality for Hynds Group : Interesting case study of an intranet built on top of Lotus Notes. Could have used some…
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Let’s Not Get Ahead of Ourselves…
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- November 19, 2007
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- 110
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…
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Measuring Satisfaction with the Navy-Marine Corp Intranet
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- December 14, 2007
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- 100
Waiting for NMCI : INteresting article about the Navy and Marine Corp intranet — NMCI. It’s apparently…somewhat unloved. The article concentrates on…