Intranet Wire

For a few months back in 2007, I maintained a small blog about intranets. It was really just a collection of links to interesting news articles, with some commentary.

It was actually under the domain intranetwire.com (someone has since purchased that). I think I had it running on a WordPress instance. I never really publicized it – I don’t think anyone looked at it but me.

I recovered these posts from the Wayback Machine.

Since the blog isn’t being updated anymore, the posts are listed in ascending chronological order.

Profiles of Three Non-Profit Intranets
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October 12, 2007
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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…
Why Intranets Don’t Get Adopted
Date
October 12, 2007
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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…
The Human Side of Change Management
Date
October 16, 2007
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Intranet change management : As a developer, when I hear “change management” I instantly start thinking about source code management, Subversion,…
Thoughts on the “Ideal” Dashboard
Date
October 16, 2007
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Does an ideal dashboard exist? : This question over at LinkedIn asks about the current state of digital dashboards. In your opinion, are existing…
Tagging as a Job Requirement?
Date
October 17, 2007
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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…
Don’t Make Your Users Stick
Date
October 17, 2007
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What is good intranet content? : An interesting thought on the difference between intranets and Internet sites. One dangerous idea I have seen…
Ideas to Make Your Intranet More Interesting
Date
October 17, 2007
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In-house internet aims to recapture staff attention : Given the level of user apathy about most intranets, companies are trying to make their…
Write Better Headlines
Date
October 17, 2007
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Killer Web Content Examples : Gerry McGovern conducted an experiment in order to determine what headlines and summaries work best: People were asked…
Emergent Behavior and Your Intranet
Date
October 18, 2007
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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…
Your Intranet Needs SEO
Date
October 18, 2007
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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…
Web and Intranet Writers Are Rarely Trained
Date
October 18, 2007
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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…
Tip for Displaying the Weather
Date
October 20, 2007
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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…
What Flavor is Your Intranet?
Date
October 20, 2007
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Intranets have a flavor. Put another way, when someone says “intranet,” what do you think of? A collaboration system? A method of disseminating news?…
The State of Enterprise 2.0
Date
October 24, 2007
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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…
This Isn’t a Beauty Contest
Date
October 25, 2007
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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…
Case Study: Perkins Eastman
Date
October 29, 2007
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Intranet case study: Perkins Eastman :A case study of an intranet built “Practice Area Communities” . The purpose of each Practice Area Community PAC…
Why IE Rules the Intranet
Date
October 29, 2007
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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 Manager Field Guide
Date
October 30, 2007
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Avoiding Dangerous Intranet Managers : This is a unintentionally humorous article about how putting the wrong person in charge of a department’s…
Wikis: It’s All About Fear
Date
October 30, 2007
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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…
Emergence May Need Help
Date
October 31, 2007
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The problem of emergence : This is simple but necessary point about the “emergence” trend that everyone is talking about these days . The point is…
Making Sense of Knowledge Management
Date
October 31, 2007
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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…
Away Today
Date
November 01, 2007
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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…
The Difficulties of Content Governance
Date
November 01, 2007
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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…
Your Intranet Isn’t a Dumping Group
Date
November 02, 2007
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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…
Facebook as Your Actual Intranet
Date
November 04, 2007
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Serena Software Adopts Facebook as Intranet : This is probably the ultimate manifestation of the social networking craze in the intranet space. It’s…
Intranets 2.0: The Battle for Tacit Knowledge
Date
November 06, 2007
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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 According to the IBF
Date
November 06, 2007
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Top Intranet Trends: Usability, Access, Personalization : A report from the Global Benchmarking Forum sponsored from the Intranet Benchmarking Forum…
Case Study: Pierce County Library
Date
November 08, 2007
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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…
Intranet Usage Survey Results
Date
November 09, 2007
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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…
Tips for Making Wikis Actually Work
Date
November 10, 2007
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Using Wikis with software developers : Here’s some fantastic advice for where the wiki meets the road. While wikis are the darlings of theory,…
Is the LMS Obsolete?
Date
November 11, 2007
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The VLE/LMS is dead : This writer argues that the “virtual learning environment” or “learning management system” — such as Blackboard or Moodle — has…
Movable Type Community Solution
Date
November 14, 2007
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Movable Type Community Solution: Create a Powerful Online Community : Movable Type, the blogging powerhouse, has embraced social networking with its…
Case Study: Hynds Group
Date
November 16, 2007
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Intranet pipe dream becomes reality for Hynds Group : Interesting case study of an intranet built on top of Lotus Notes. Could have used some…
Let’s Not Get Ahead of Ourselves…
Date
November 19, 2007
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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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