Intranet teams can never maintain a whole site themselves, and empowered authors will do much to deliver great content.
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What intranet content should be in PDF format?.
The typical corporate intranet will consist of a mix of HTML-based web pages and a variety of PDF-based content available for download. PDFs can be…
What intranet content should be in PDF format?.
The different uses for PDFs and web-based content on intranets is a common source of confusion.
Five intranet publishing models.
Intranets can grow to be thousands, tens of thousands or millions of pages in size. With content as far as the eye can see, the…
Five intranet publishing models.
There are five fundamental publishing models for an intranet, and each has strengths and weaknesses.
Don’t try to boil the content ocean.
Too many approaches to improving intranet content are destined for heroic failure.
The "all together" rule for intranets.
Intranet content and tools should be aggregated, to help staff find required information, and to complete key tasks.
Not all content needs to be of equal quality.
Efforts should be targeted at improving the quality of key information, while applying lower standards to the majority of intranet content.
Intranets: losing the language of enforcement.
All too often, centralised intranet teams find themselves battling with decentralised authors to enforce consistency and quality standards.
Centralised or decentralised authoring?.
There is no ‘correct’ answer to this question. To get the best business outcomes, you must understand the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches.