Nielsen Finds that Intranet Usability Increases
Date October 12, 2007
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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…
Profiles of Three Non-Profit Intranets
Date 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…
Canon Australia Case Study: No Global Home Page
Date October 13, 2007
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Intranet redesign for Canon Australia : A detailed case study on the analysis phase behind an intranet redesign from the experts at Step Two . One…
How to Foster Collaboration in your Organization
Date October 14, 2007
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Building a Culture of Collaboration : This isn’t about intranets in particular, but it discusses different ways companies get employees to…
Using Social Tools in the Enterprise to Filter Information
Date October 15, 2007
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Social tools for Internal Communications : This is a dense but interesting summary of a discussion that took place at The Social Media Forum for…
Tips for Improving Your Intranet Incrementally
Date October 15, 2007
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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,…
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…
Why Neither IT Nor Communications Should Own the Intranet
Date October 18, 2007
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Intranet management evolution - independence for intranet teams : Ownership of a organization’s intranet is usually a battle between two groups: IT…
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…
Nielsen Norman Group Crowns 2007 Intranet Design Winners
Date October 18, 2007
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2007 Intranet Design Awards : The Nielsen Norman Group has named the winners of their annual Intranet Design Awards. On this promo page, they appear…
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…
The Onomi Project: A Case Study in Enterprise Social Bookmarking
Date October 19, 2007
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Onomi: Social Bookmarking on a Corporate Intranet : MITRE tried social bookmarking on their intranet. They took Scuttle , an open-source bookmark…
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?…
Content Governance: What Happens When the Consultants Leave?
Date October 24, 2007
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Making CMS work: models for content governance : Content management — on intranets or public Web sites — is almost always presented as a technical…
Why Social Networking and Intranets are a Good Fit
Date October 24, 2007
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Are Intranets the Single Biggest Social Networking Opportunity? : Adopting social networking ideas on intranets is the hot new thing lately — it…
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…
Branding Your Intranet Through Its Name and “Personality”
Date October 25, 2007
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Intranet Project Names - Some Ideas : Why are so many intranets called “The Intranet”? If not that, you see two common derivations: a “-net” suffix…
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…
When Social Networking and Corporate Policy Collide
Date November 10, 2007
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We love social networks…no, wait, we hate them…no wait… : Some interesting notes on the inherent conflict about social network inside most companies.…
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…
Measuring Satisfaction with the Navy-Marine Corp Intranet
Date December 14, 2007
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Waiting for NMCI : INteresting article about the Navy and Marine Corp intranet — NMCI. It’s apparently…somewhat unloved. The article concentrates on…