“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
Socrates preceded the corporate intranet by more than 2,000 years, but his sage wisdom holds eternal: learning and the acquired knowledge can only lead to good things.
The intranet is a funny creature — it’s so awful in so many organizations, that it’s embarrassing, and most definitely not worth learning about. However, the good ones are not frequently showcased, and rarely are truly opened up, because there are these corporate creatures called lawyers — who are foolishly and instinctively overly protective of all corporate knowledge — and rarely allow common folk intranet managers to open the door to the public.
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There are though, for those that invest the time, rare openings and opportunities to view some of the best intranets on the planet in a variety of sources including:
- Conferences
- Webinars
- Blogs
- Reports
Some of the noteworthy conferences worth attending:
- Intranet Global Forum (NYC) – October
- Intrateam (Copenhagen) – March
- Enterprise 2.0 (Moscow) – March
- Intralife (Oslo) – May
- Intranets 2013 (Sydney) – May
Various reports show and reveal a lot of quality intelligence and case studies:
- Intranet Innovation Awards report
- Digital Workplace Trends report
- The Social Intranet white paper
- The Intranet Design Annual
- Social Intranets & Employee Engagements
Blogs are a good means of keeping abreast of changes in the industry, best practices, and upcoming events:
Webinars come and go, and they are not all created equal. Regular intranet webinars from one particular source are even more rare, but a couple of sources exist:
The next noteworthy intranet webinar of note is, in fact, one of my own: The World’s Best Intranets (Nov. 6). We hope you can make it 🙂