Well, Intranets2011 is over! It went very well by all accounts, and the energy in the room was remarkable. Many thanks to all the speakers and participants. As the first …

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Earlier articles like Roles needed in an intranet team highlight the hard skills required to deliver successful intranets. And without doubt these will often differentiate success from failure. But nurturing …

Starting a SharePoint intranet project, whether creating a new intranet or redeveloping an existing one, can be daunting. Alongside strategy and design questions are now a myriad of technology decisions, …

Essential -adjective 1. absolutely necessary, indispensable 2. of the utmost importance In the lead up to my closing keynote at Intranets2011, I’m going to be talking about essential intranets: what …

In the last two days, I’ve given an intranet presentation to a hundred small-medium sized businesses in Sydney, and the same number again in Melbourne. These are all firms with …

A lot of organisations are currently deploying SharePoint for their corporate intranet. And rightly so, as it’s a viable and potentially powerful solution for intranet needs. Like any technology, however, …

We often hear of intranet teams being asked to ‘deliver’ the intranet as if it was a product that can be purchased and deployed in a straightforward manner. While there …

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Many intranets teams are tasked with ‘creating intranet governance’ without further guidance on what that means for the organisation or a clear understanding of what it should contain. Governance is …