Seth Gottleib asks: are content managers ready for personalization? To quote: It is easy to get excited by this functionality. But then you think of the difficulty your average organization has with even the basic aspects of content production and you wonder if they ready for these tools. How can ...
Articles tagged: personalisation
iGoogle-like intranet start page to the rescue
Stimmt have shared several Swiss case studies on iGoogle-like intranet start pages. To quote: Just as can be seen with iGoogle, the intranet Start page features several tabs containing widgets (or ‘gadgets’, to use the iGoogle term). The tabs are pre-populated with a general set of useful widgets. The user ...
Connecting bookmarks and “my links”
I had lunch today in Zurich with Lukas Karrer from Stimmt (a user experience consultancy doing great work in the German-speaking region of Switzerland). Many great intranet ideas were shared, but a little thing that stuck in my mind: One Swiss firm is implementing "my links" as part of their ...
Hyper-personalisation of the intranet
Alex Manchester points to the hyper-personalisation of the intranet that is being attempted at Sun. To quote: WebNext will allow each employee to tailor their own site, relevant to them – but this is a big step away from the local portals and customizable homepages of old. The program is ...
“My sites”: do they work?
"My sites" is a concept coming very much into vogue at present, driven by the adoption of SharePoint and a range of other intranet and enterprise 2.0 platforms. The idea is to give each person within the organisation a place to publish their identity, share their links and collect together ...
Triangles of information delivery
This diagram captures some of my evolving thinking on intranets, information management and enterprise 2.0. It outlines three scenarios: Scenario A This is the "now" scenario, typical of most intranets and information management strategies. Information is mostly published at the corporate ...
