Intranet technology
Portal or CMS? Social media or none? Commercial or open-source? What is the best technology for your intranet? Choosing the right technology for your intranet is difficult, to say the least. In fact,...
View ArticleBattle for CMS supremacy
Content management software (CMS) is a gigantic business. TechNavio’s analysts forecast that the global Enterprise Content Management (ECM) will reach $9.6 Billion in 2014. One of the key factors...
View ArticleCMS or SharePoint?
SharePoint is a lot to a lot of organizations: a plethora of features, and hundreds of third-party applications make it an overwhelmingly robust platform, but overwhelmingly underwhelming for some. Web...
View ArticleOpen source CMS intranet
More than one-quarter of all organizations with an intranet use a CMS to power their intranet; most CMS solutions are commercial, brand name solutions. Preliminary data from The Social Intranet Study...
View ArticleContent curation on the social intranet
Content curation on the 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...
View ArticleLearning from great intranets
SAS SharePoint Intranet. Source: Sharepointdazzle It’s difficult study leading intranets without firsthand access to someone else’s intranet. However, our recent webinar, The Best Intranets from the...
View ArticleSharePoint for intranets
SharePoint 2010 is an amazingly rich, and powerful platform; it’s also frustratingly simple, and frequently underwhelms. It’s a testament to the Microsoft organization that SharePoint (in some shape or...
View ArticleContent migration for the SharePoint intranet
Migrating content is a big job — in fact, it’s often massive. Many intranet content migration jobs involve many hundreds of thousands of pages and documents (as it did with one recent client with only...
View ArticleSocial intranet marketing & change management
Social media tools (intranet 2.0) are so simple and inexpensive to deploy that it is incredibly easy to be lulled into complacency until your initiative begins to fail. Often, failure is simply a lack...
View ArticleThe destruction of home page news
“I no longer support the idea of home page news and features,” says Shel Holtz, Principal, Holtz Communications + Technology. “My opinion has changed 180 degrees in the past two years. Activity streams...
View ArticleIntranet Design: The Very Best Intranets and Digital Workplaces
What makes a great intranet one of the best? In short, a lot. It requires a tremendous amount of intelligent work, planning, investment, and highly engaged executives and employees. But like an...
View ArticleSeismic changes to intranet technology sector
Seismic changes are afoot in the intranet content management space. The intranet technology platform solutions industry has been consolidating furiously in recent years. One of the biggest acquisitions...
View ArticleSharePoint Intranet Governance
Intranet governance details the ownership model (who owns and manages it), and the rules for creating pages and content (roles and responsibilities, and policies); SharePoint intranet governance is...
View ArticleIntranet content curation at Google
On the indexed Internet, there are more than 4.5 billion pages. Finding the most relevant content can be akin to finding a needle in a hay galaxy. “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure,”...
View ArticleGreat Intranets: A Sneak Preview
Great intranets come in many forms, and often look and feel different from one to another. There are, however, some common threads that link some of the great intranets: executive sponsorship, secure...
View ArticleDigital Workplace Content Lessons & Learnings
Content is still king. If there was one over-arching lesson from the 2017 Digital Workplace & Intranet Global Forum is that content, in all its forms, should be the apple of any digital workplace...
View Article7 Traits of a Winning Intranet
Truly great intranets are like snow leopards; very rare, mysterious, and beautiful. Winning intranets are years in the making; building and enhancing slowly over time, supported by active executive...
View Article7 Traits of A Winning Intranet (Part II)
Winning intranets tend to vary in look and feel, with different user experiences, applications, technology, and approaches to content and governance. And they should – every organization and culture is...
View ArticleThe New SharePoint: SharePoint 2019
“At the center of digital transformation, isn’t technology, it’s people,” says Seth Patton, GM, for Microsoft Office 365 Product Marketing, opening up this year’s SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas....
View ArticleIntranet Content Management in a Social World
Your intranet is hungry for good content; but it’s awash in bad, stale content. Feeding the intranet ‘monster’ once was a primary concern for corporate communications, but now it’s culling the dead and...
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