“Toby, I just wanted to phone you and thank you for your article on Employees demand a clean home page, no scrolling,” says John, an intranet manager with a very large, prominent government organization. “It’s what I’ve been saying all …
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(SAN ANTONIO, TX) Your employees demand a clean, white home page, with absolutely no scrolling. This is a fact, supported by dozens of employee focus groups, at dozens of leading, and medium size organizations in North America. I’ve heard the …
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Blogging is more than popular, it’s revolutionary. Blogging has turned ordinary Joe and Janes into celebrated authors, and celebrities. However, for every Arianna Huffington, there are millions of Joes and Janes that have contributed one or two posts and subsequently …
From mundane to social: intranets are rapidly evolving into social media systems that greatly distance themselves from their former, glorified brochure-ware sites. To be clear, for those still learning about a concept that has really only emerged in recent months, and was only formally defined …
The vast majority of organizations that have implemented social media tools on their intranet (intranet 2.0 tools) have done so at little or no cost (or simply activated bundled tools that came with SharePoint or another CMS or portal solution). …
I’ve been labeledÐ’Â a “SharePoint hater” by more than one SharePoint consultant. I snicker to myself every time I think of it 🙂 The truth: I like SharePoint; I use SharePoint; SP powers our own intranet at Prescient Digital Media. …
Intranet 2.0 is cheap. It's so cheap that small organizations, non-profits, miserly Fortune 500 types, and even cash-strapped communications departments can afford it. The results may not always be spectacular, but the cost of entry is rather cheap. Final …
I’m quite certain that no one has outstripped by voracious capacity to write about intranet governance, but at the risk of repeating myself, here’s another recommendation: social intranets need governance too. Duh. Actually, if you already have a …
A few footnotes and suggestions for supporting intranet social media (intranet 2.0): Folksonomy – a folksonomy is surprisingly simple to implement (or begin); it’s far less advanced that you’d believe, and requires far less set-up than a taxonomy. But most …
