Ditching email is dumb
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, …
Apple & Android want your mobile intranet
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 …
World-class intranets
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 …
IBM’s Galactic Intranet Redesign
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 …
Intranet case study sneak preview: PepsiCo employee videos
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? …
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If you can afford it, SharePoint may be worth the "hassles"
“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 …
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It’s more social, but it’s not social business
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 …
Content curation on the social intranet
If you’re looking for a low threat, low risk introduction (to social media in the enterprise) content curation is a good place to start,” says Shel Holtz, speaking at The Social Intranet Summit in Vancouver (Surviving your intranet content crisis). …
Social business doesn’t thrill employees (yet)
Social media continues its’ persistent march across the firewall and into the day-to-day lives of intranet users, but executives and employees alike are less than thrilled with the end results. In fact, the initial overall rating on internal employee-only social …