Comments on: Cleaning up intranet content http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/cleaning-up-intranet-content/ News and opinion on all things intranet & CM Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:17:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Candace http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/cleaning-up-intranet-content/comment-page-1/#comment-1374 Candace Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:27:56 +0000 http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/?p=3797#comment-1374 James, thanks for sharing this story. We suffer similar challenges within my organization - outdated, irrelevent content. I often think we should just 'unplug' the intranet and see what sites are the most requested as 'necessary to get the job done.' But instead we're in the process of doing a cleanup - identifying sites that have not been touched in 'x' period and remove; identify sites that have not had content updated since 'x.' I'm very interested in hearing what others have to say on this topic. James, thanks for sharing this story. We suffer similar challenges within my organization – outdated, irrelevent content. I often think we should just ‘unplug’ the intranet and see what sites are the most requested as ‘necessary to get the job done.’ But instead we’re in the process of doing a cleanup – identifying sites that have not been touched in ‘x’ period and remove; identify sites that have not had content updated since ‘x.’ I’m very interested in hearing what others have to say on this topic.

]]> By: Fredric Landqvist http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/cleaning-up-intranet-content/comment-page-1/#comment-1372 Fredric Landqvist Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:11:44 +0000 http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/?p=3797#comment-1372 A similar event, using the search engine to refine a shortlist of 'web sites' that needed to be archived due to outdated content base, lack of ownership etc. The reversed set of queries to the huge intranet, made it pretty visible to the top management about the critical state of having 30% or more outdated content. Second action, using the same refinement techniques to get a short list of web chunks where there were no trace what so ever of the actual owner: hint no way finding a responsible person to contact manually to improve... Lastly archive stuff that didn't 'change' similar to the example mentioned in your blog. A similar event, using the search engine to refine a shortlist of ‘web sites’ that needed to be archived due to outdated content base, lack of ownership etc.

The reversed set of queries to the huge intranet, made it pretty visible to the top management about the critical state of having 30% or more outdated content.

Second action, using the same refinement techniques to get a short list of web chunks where there were no trace what so ever of the actual owner: hint no way finding a responsible person to contact manually to improve…

Lastly archive stuff that didn’t ‘change’ similar to the example mentioned in your blog.

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