Social business is nothing new
on Nov 19, 2009 in Main Page Intranet 2.0 Web 2.0 (SAN JOSE, CA) “Digital work became more social… but work has always been social,” says Thomas Vander Wal, InfoCloud Solutions, addressing the KM World 2009 conference. “Businesses by nature are social – you need to have people in your org...

Enterprise 2.0: key ingredients & barriers
on Nov 17, 2009 in Main Page Intranet 2.0 Knowledge Management (SAN JOSE, CA) “Enterprise 2.0 is the use of emergent social software platforms by organizations in pursuit of their goals,” says the man who coined the phrase, Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan S...

Innovative intranets
on Nov 17, 2009 in Main Page Best Practices Case Studies Intranet 2.0 (SAN JOSE, CA) While an innovative intranet may be cool, and look great, a truly innovative intranet delivers true value and advances an organization's standing in its industry. The Intranet Innovations 2009 report celebrates the winners of the 2009...

Intranet design
on Nov 4, 2009 in Main Page Design This is the story of a very profitable, successful, large enterprise that spent over $2 million on their intranet. When the intranet launched, it crashed in seconds. It has never gone live again (more than a year later).Leaving an intranet design to...

SharePoint for ECM: 5 big enhancements
on Oct 21, 2009 in Main Page Content Management (CMS) Portal Technology Vendors Wiki SharePoint (MOSS) (LAS VEGAS) Lest you be tingling with excitement about the potential enhancements to your less than spectacular content management system, there are two realities for SharePoint 2010: what is promised, and what is hoped for.   Those working with...

Introducing Microsoft SharePoint 2010: learnings from SPC09
on Oct 19, 2009 in Main Page Applications Content Management (CMS) Technology Vendors SharePoint (MOSS) (LAS VEGAS, NV) If there was one, overarching message delivered by CEO Steve Ballmer in his keynote unveiling Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (at the annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas): SharePoint is no longer just an intranet solution, it’s been...

UPDATE: Introducing SharePoint 2010: learnings from SPC09
on Oct 19, 2009 in Main Page Applications Content Management (CMS) Technology Vendors SharePoint (MOSS) (LAS VEGAS, NV) If there was one, overarching message delivered by CEO Steve Ballmer in his keynote unveiling Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (at the annual SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas): SharePoint is no longer just an intranet solution, it’s been...

Intranet governance begets intranet success
on Oct 13, 2009 in Main Page Best Practices Planning As is the case with most websites or intranets it is simply impossible to achieve any long-lasting success without a clearly defined ownership and management structure. Intranet governance provides clarity and rules: namely the titles, roles and resp...

Intranet in the cloud
on Oct 7, 2009 in Main Page Applications Security Technology Vendors You’ve probably seen the term, or heard it bantered about by geeks, or maybe your head is in it… but you may not fully understand the term “cloud” or “SasS” (software as a service) or perhaps just think its another catchy marketing acrony...

Top 5 intranet KPIs
on Sep 23, 2009 in Main Page Best Practices Planning ROI In many ways, websites and intranets are like telephone systems – they assist us in accomplishing mission-critical work all the time but their true value is rarely measured. --------------------------------------------------------------------------...