Any time I write about or discuss SharePoint and I dare mention any of its weaknesses instead of focusing solely on its strengths some SharePoint zealot suffers great indignation at my gall for criticizing the ultimate, perfect technology. (Sarcasm: /Л€sЙ‘r …
It’s difficult study leading intranets without firsthand access to someone else’s intranet. However, our recent webinar, The Best Intranets from the Intranet Global Forum (with Kurt Sorensen, and myself), was a chance for a wide audience (300 organizations worldwide) to …
I ditched a lot of classes in middle high school. In retrospect, it was a dumb move. Learning the error of my ways, I cleaned-up my act later in grade 11 and was highly attentive in the critical final year, …
Steve Jobs never cared much for the corporate market; he was his charming self when he referred to corporate offices as “orifices.” However, “orifices” everywhere are snatching up iPads, and iPhones for corporate use, to access the corporate intranet. One …
There’s a lot to learn from the best: what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. So goes the old proverb: You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are …
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 …
There’s a reason why YouTube is one of the most flocked-to websites on the planet (second or third in traffic only behind parent Google, depending on the measuring stick): people want video. They crave it. Are employees not users too? …
Intranet case study sneak preview: PepsiCo employee videos Read More »
“SharePoint provides enough business value to outweigh the hassles,” states the latest Forrester report on SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Adoption, 2011) which reads less like an analysis and more akin to an ad for Microsoft. I truly question Forrester’s impartiality versus …
If you can afford it, SharePoint may be worth the "hassles" Read More »
Social business has been one of the hottest, most over-used ‘social’ buzzwords since enterprise 2.0. Yet aside from the usual leaders such as Cisco, IBM and Verizon, and a handful of other exceptions,few businesses are true social businesses. And there …
