Andrew McAfee argues that pilots should be abandoned. To quote: I believe these kinds of pilots are unintentionally set up to fail, or at least underwhelm. This is essentially because they contain too few people, most of whom know each other too well. While I agree with Andrew that pilots are ...
Monthly Archives: April 2010
April 30, 2010
Forming organic online communities on the intranet: #hashtag everything!
Simon Goh explores the interesting idea of #hashtagging everything on an intranet, to spontaneously create internal communities. To quote: Twitter has popularised the use of #hashtags as a way to aggregate relevant tweets together. #hashtag is a special kind of tag because people learn about them before using them. For ...
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets, social media, tagging
April 29, 2010
Do intranets only need search?
Every once in a while, intranet teams have to justify the amount of time they spend structuring their sites and improving navigation. Stakeholders, often very senior ones, ask: 'Why don't we just provide search, like Google'. This would save the time spent ...
Categorised under: Intranets, James' articles, Search tools, Usability & user-centered design
Tags: Information architecture, Intranets, search
April 29, 2010
Three types of intranet communication
As a fundamental purpose of intranets, communication has a vital role to play in the ongoing development and success of a site. But understanding how an intranet can perform as a useful communication platform is often lacking. This article will explore three types of communication that can be found or deployed ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: communications, Intranets
April 29, 2010
Educating the executive about the intranet
Executive support is crucial to successful development and evolution of an organisation's intranet. However in many organisations executive support is limited. Many executives do not even use the intranet, but ask others to find information for them. This article focuses on ways to educate the executive about the intranet, in a ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: business cases, executive, Intranets, sponsorship
April 23, 2010
Intranet Innovations 2010 – last day to enter!
It's Friday 23 April, and this year that means today is the very last day to submit your entry for the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Again, entries close today. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on past ...
Categorised under: Uncategorized
April 21, 2010
Intranet support for emergency planning – the air flight ban in Europe
Martin White makes some interesting observations about the role of intranets in emergency planning. To quote: Some brief discussions with clients last week indicates that senior managers may be increasing their perception of the value of the intranet as managers at all levels in the organisation are in the wrong ...
Categorised under: Intranets
April 16, 2010
Intranet Innovations 2010 – just one week left to enter!
It's Friday 16 April, and this year that means just one more week left to enter the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Entries close next week - Friday April 23. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on ...
Categorised under: intranet innovation awards
April 13, 2010
Future intranet scenarios and screens in Melbourne
The future of intranets is something that I've been focusing a lot on recently. All of this came together for a keynote presentation at the IntraTeam conference in Denmark, about a month ago. This hour-long presentation explored two day-in-the-life scenarios that ...
Categorised under: Intranet Leadership Forum
April 9, 2010
Video killed the intranet star
Carolyn Douglas writes about the limits of video on the intranet. To quote: This got me thinking about your intranets. I suspect your employees may feel the same way. How many employees will sit through a 5 minute weekly video blog of the company CEO talking about corporate initiatives? Videos ...
Categorised under: Intranets
April 9, 2010
Enterprise search versus federated search
Theresa Regli writes about the difference between enterprise search and federated search. To quote: A question often asked by people learning about search technology is, "what's the difference between enterprise and federated search?" It is not the simplest question to answer, and in my travels I have found that the ...
Categorised under: Search tools
Tags: enterprise search, search
April 9, 2010
Intranet Innovations 2010 – just two weeks left to enter
It's Friday 9 April, and this year that means just two weeks left to enter the 2010 Intranet Innovation Awards. Entries close on Friday April 23. All details about the awards, including entry form, information on past winners, judging ...
Categorised under: intranet innovation awards
April 8, 2010
Intranet themes for communicators in 2010
I was talking to an organisation today and they asked what I thought the "themes" were corporate communications teams regarding intranets. This got my thinking going, further spurred by my upcoming intranet workshop at the Melcrum conference in Melbourne. Based on what I've seen in Europe, US and Australia, these ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: communications, Intranets, strategy
April 8, 2010
Evaluating vendor proposals – kill your spreadsheets
Alan Pelz-Sharpe has written about evaluating vendor proposals, and recommends killing the all-too-typical evaluation spreadsheets. To quote: We strongly advocate a test-based approach to procurement, based on the value of scenarios; nevertheless, many enterprises want to apply a quantitative, spreadsheet-based assessment approach. In some cases these can become really quite ...
Categorised under: Content management
April 8, 2010
E2.0 Community Approval Criteria
Christy Schoon writes about approval criteria for new collaborative spaces. To quote: In my last blog post I covered open vs. managed community creation inside the enterprise. The next logical question I am asked is “If we do go the managed creation route, what types of questions should we ...
Categorised under: Collaboration
Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, governance
April 7, 2010
How to get quality intranet content
Mark Morrell writes about how to get quality content on intranets. To quote: We have a tool which checks content every day and informs publishers 4 weeks before the review date expires to review and update or remove the content. Failure to do this results in the content being ...
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Tags: content, governance, Intranets, publishing
April 7, 2010
Do you have an elevator pitch for your online activities?
Dorthe Raakjær Jespersen asks: do you have an elevator pitch for your online activities? To quote: It can be very tiring to have to explain the same things over and over again. But have you stopped to look at how you reply and respond to people? Are you speaking their ...
Categorised under: Intranets
Tags: business cases, Intranets, sales pitch, website
April 6, 2010
Alstom: communities of practice
When I was recently in Europe, one of my stops was Paris, for an intranet breakfast event organised by Jane McConnell. This brought together some of France's biggest companies to talk about intranets, and it was a great morning. One of the presentations was by Alstom, talking about their efforts ...
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0
April 6, 2010
Holistic information management
Alan Pelz-Sharpe has written about holistic information management. To quote: In this project, we were able to actually bring both sides around the same table (figuratively and literally), and facilitated the conversation so that each began to understand the others' frustrations and hopes. Both sides learned a great deal, ...
Categorised under: Information management
Tags: Information management
April 6, 2010
Video interview from Denmark on the future of intranets
I'm catching up my blogging after the recent whirlwind trip around Europe. This is a video recorded at the IntraTeam event in Denmark at the start of the trip, discussing "intranets in 2015".
Categorised under: Conferences & presentations, Future intranet, Intranets
