May 8, 2013 by James Robertson
A few weeks ago we asked the intranet community to vote for your favourite intranet myths, which we’ll duly bust as part of the program at Intranets2013. With a huge response and voting now closed ahead of the conference, we’ve selected the most popular intranet myths. Drumroll please… The myths to be busted are: Social [...]
Tags: Intranet Myths, intranets2013
April 30, 2013 by James Robertson
Nearly a decade ago, we created the Intranet Roadmap — the first comprehensive methodology on how to design (or redesign) an intranet. It was an immediate hit, and now 1,000 of the brightly coloured posters adorn the walls of intranet teams around the globe. Late last year, we sold out of the posters, and we [...]
April 26, 2013 by James Robertson
With the deployment of a new technology platform for the intranet comes the daunting task of migrating content from the old site. Hopefully there’s been a content cleanup, and a lot of the old and unused content has gone. This may still leave thousands or tens of thousands of pages to migrate. As outlined in [...]
Tags: authoring, content migration, Intranets
April 26, 2013 by James Robertson
Content is at the heart of all intranets. Pages, documents, and files populate the architecture with varying degrees of elegance and are managed under different authoring and publishing regimes. Over time, an organic process somewhere between glacial and viral overtakes the well designed structures (assuming they were there to begin with) and starts to clog [...]
Tags: content, content audit, content inventory, Content management, Intranets
April 23, 2013 by James Robertson
When it comes to designing and managing intranets: what is truth, and what is a myth? Some of the most widely spread theories are in fact false, while many real insights remain hidden away within organisations. No longer! As part of the Intranets2013 conference in Sydney (just three weeks to go!), Step Two Designs will [...]
Tags: intranets2013, myths