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 [...]
Categorised under: Announcements, Intranets
Also tagged: intranet roadmap, Intranets, project planning
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 [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Also tagged: authoring, content migration, Intranets
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 [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Also tagged: content, content audit, content inventory, Content management, Intranets
A few months ago, I put out a message inviting people to join an Advisory Panel for my next intranet book (working title “What every intranet should do”). Open only to practitioners running intranets, there were many applications. The panel has now been up and running for a month now, with approximately 30 members. Panel [...]
Categorised under: Announcements, Book & product reviews
We live in interesting times. As part of our work at Step Two, we provide ongoing advice and mentoring for intranet teams around the globe. With the financial crisis and all that goes with it, we’re seeing new challenges for intranet teams. Processes for getting business cases approved have become more uncertain and drawn-out. Many [...]
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: business cases, goals, Intranets, planning, strategy, vision