“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 team of more than 40 IBM consultants have undertaken a massive redesign of IBM’s web properties: a galactic redesign that includes both the external website and internal intranet. The core objective: a Single design system that converges the intranet …
(NEW YORK, NY) Lawyers love pouring cold water on new ideas; “that’s not the way we work,” or they proclaim something to do with “liability” and “privacy regulations” as knee-jerk arguments for blocking innovation. “Sometimes listening to legal counsel is …
On the corporate intranet, social means better business. Despite the initial executive fears that social media equals ‘goofing around’ on the job, enterprise social media is supporting the business, driving innovation and collaboration, and allowing employees to perform more effectively …
Information sources should never be designed solely by a creative designer, but rather an information architect, business analyst or content expert. Twitter has unveiled a new design for its’ profile page: an underwhelming, and shallow design that crowds out desired …
Tip: Cute labels don’t work. Trick: Old, tired labels that everyone knows should be kept. While the number one complaint by users in any organization during the past 15 years continues to be “I can’t find anything!” the reason behind …
At the risk of sounding repetitive, this is still the number one complaint of most employees at most organizations, regardless of size, industry and geographic location. Notwithstanding the effectiveness of the search engine which, more often than not, is rated …
There’s a new SharePoint coming, and it features a load of upgrades; particularly to the editing interface, social media, cloud services, and file synchronization service via the cloud. The new upgrade is tentatively called SharePoint 2013, but that’s not the …
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The intranet is dead. How many times have we heard this tired, uninformed complaint or false prophecy in the past 10 years? Too many, which coincidentally is equal to the number of half-wits out there that don’t know any better. …
