Evaluating your intranet
How do you know your intranet or portal is good? Or god awful? Yes, your intuition is probably a good clue; better yet is formal feedback from stakeholders and users. Formally evaluating your intranet against a set of best …
Communist Cuba opens up university intranet
This is truly fascinating if it is in fact true to the extent the propaganda would have you believe. La Prensa (the dogmatic left-wing media outlet that Commandante Che Guevera once worked for and which he helped promote as well …
Combating propaganda and rumors
The Standard Group (Nairobi, Kenya) has published an interesting read, Propoganda and rumors at work:
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Top 5 killer intranet mistakes
There are mistakes, and there are killer mistakes. A successful intranet needs a lot of work and careful thought; some mistakes will limit success, others will kill the intranet. In his recent column Lessons Learned: How to Avoid the …
User experience bridges technology and marketing-communications
Most of us are very familiar with the frequent even natural tension between communications, marketing and IT. Techies see the world far differently than communicators or marketers. The common denominator for these groups must be the user. In The Enterprise …
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Employees continue to be your biggest threat
Viruses are a threat. Denial of service attacks are scary. Your employees, however, are your biggest threat. While 98% of Canadian business leaders and decision makers believe it is important for a company to secure sensitive data. A …
Brutal employee communications from Telstra
Australian telecom giant Telstra recently announced they were eliminating 12,000 jobs. Unfortunately for the so-called modern communications company, their own internal communications appears to suck dingo. While Telstra has announced the layoffs (no doubt the announcement is intended to impress …
Case study: PNM Resources CEO blog
Steve Crescenzo writes an interesting intranet case study of a CEO blog at PNM Resources, an Albuquerque, N.M.-based energy utility. Steve writes in Hit-and-Run Blogging that the CEO blog was a hit and very successful at driving traffic to the …