Promoting the intranet as a service

By: James Robertson Posted: March 24, 2011

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 …

How to find intranet screenshots

By: James Robertson Posted: March 24, 2011

Designing website is easy. Want to see what the leading companies are doing with their sites? Open them up in your browser. Want to know current best practices? Browse a …

Creating an intranet governance guide

By: James Robertson Posted: March 24, 2011

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 …

Book review: The Intranet Management Handbook

By: James Robertson Posted: March 23, 2011

There are over a million intranets in the world according to Martin White, and I have no reason to doubt it. The field of intranet management is large and active, …

Executive presentation on delivering a mobile enterprise

By: James Robertson Posted: March 18, 2011

I’ve been writing a lot on delivering a mobile enterprise since late last year. I’ve also been presenting on how to deliver a mobile enterprise, most recently in Sydney, and …

Interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup

By: James Robertson Posted: March 7, 2011

When I was in London late last year, I was pleased to have an opportunity to record a video interview with Faith Wainwright of Arup. Gold winners of the 2010 …

Don’t rely on vendors to meet your mobile enterprise needs

By: James Robertson Posted: March 2, 2011

Mobile is hot, increasingly so within enterprises. This has been picked up by the major technology vendors, who are all scrambling to deliver mobile functionality, from mobile-friendly web interfaces to …

Moving on from newsletters

By: James Robertson Posted: February 24, 2011

In the old days, corporate news and information was communicated on paper, either as internal newsletters or a company newspaper. Created weekly, monthly or quarterly, these paper communications were delivered …

As an intranet becomes more popular and contributions to the site increase, the number of pages, documents and articles and, subsequently, the number of results on search queries, grows exponentially. …

The appetite for enterprise mobile functionality

By: James Robertson Posted: February 3, 2011

I’ve been in New Zealand this week doing client work, and one of the client sessions that I facilitated highlighted the very real appetite and demand for enterprise mobile functionality. …