When it comes to intranets (and information management in general), there is always a temptation to put in place simplistic rules, or to pursue simplistic…
Content migration: options and strategies.
Explores the options for migrating content as part of a site redesign, giving tips and suggestions.
In-context vs back-end authoring.
There are two common ways of editing content in a CMS, and each has its strengths and weaknesses.
Clean up your LDAP or Active Directory.
Before personalisation can be implemented, underlying LDAP or Active Directory implementations need to be cleaned up.
Automating three types of forms.
There is a ‘rule of thirds’ that can be used to categorise the main types of forms that exist on an intranet.
CMS vendors are evaluating us.
We are looking for the product that is the best fit to the organisation’s needs. What is rarely recognised, however, is that while we are…
Not all content needs to be of equal quality.
Efforts should be targeted at improving the quality of key information, while applying lower standards to the majority of intranet content.
More users = simpler CMS.
When deploying a CMS across the whole organisation, the rule is: the more users, the simpler (and more usable) the system should be.
Is workflow the wrong metaphor?.
The unspoken truth is that workflow often doesn’t work well in practice, leading to the question: is workflow the wrong metaphor?
Content reuse in practice.
While content reuse may be a goal of many CMS projects, it is often complex to implement in practice.
