For the last ten years, we’ve worked with intranet teams across a wide variety of organisations, both large and small. It’s been good work, and together we’ve delivered some great intranets. What’s been surprising for us, however, is how many organisations we’ve worked with in the last year that don’t have an intranet team at [...]
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Also tagged: governance, intranet teams, Intranets, management, teams
Intranet governance can be a daunting subject, so daunting that it is rarely addressed comprehensively, and often even the core aspects shied away from. This can leave intranets and their teams dangerously adrift. To be sure, complete governance is far from trivial, embracing design, architecture, visual aesthetics, function, roles, responsibilities, content types, training, resources, stakeholder [...]
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Also tagged: governance, homepages, Intranets2011, policies, teams
The role of an intranet manager is very new, and most intranet managers only started on this career path in the last five to ten years. Intranet managers come from all walks of life and have very different skills. Because of this, the role of intranet manager is not well defined. The key skills needed [...]
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Also tagged: governance, Intranets, leadership, managers, teams
Michael Sampson has pre-announced his new book called SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration. To quote: SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration is the indispensable guide for the CIO and IT department about what to do after installing the software. This book takes everything that I teach in my SharePoint Roadmap workshop — about using the collaboration capabilities of [...]
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Also tagged: Collaboration, teams
James Dellow has posted an article on successful virtual teams. To quote: While it might not be recognised, in many organisations collaborating together as part of a virtual project team or a remote workgroup (where the staff are not co-located with each other, including tele-workers) is a normal fact of working life.
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Also tagged: teams