Presentation: Governance for SharePoint intranets

By: James Robertson Posted: October 9, 2012

Yesterday I gave a presentation in Denmark to a diverse group of organisations, all wrestling with SharePoint. While they’d all found SharePoint to be useful, the common story was the …

Improving intranet content

By: James Robertson Posted: August 22, 2012

As one of the five key purposes of an intranet, content is too often left out of the equation when redesigning or improving the intranet. To be of any real …

A checklist for quality content

By: James Robertson Posted: August 22, 2012

Quality content is key to the success of any intranet, making it both useful and usable. To achieve this, intranet teams must ensure intranet authors have the right tools, training …

Three fundamental reasons for having an intranet team

By: James Robertson Posted: August 15, 2012

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 …

Intranet governance in three pages

By: James Robertson Posted: July 31, 2012

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 …

Intranet governance in three pages

By: Steve Byrne Posted: July 31, 2012

While intranet governance is a big topic to make sense of, a great start is to get three key documents in place.

How to make this your last big intranet redesign

By: James Robertson Posted: June 25, 2012

Intranet redesigns involve a huge amount of work, so how do we make this the last big redesign that’s needed?

Two streams of SharePoint governance

By: James Robertson Posted: April 3, 2012

A few weeks back, we were at the Australian SharePoint conference in Melbourne, which was packed with both attendees and vendors. The word of the event was “governance”, to the …

How to create the right sites on your SharePoint intranet

By: James Robertson Posted: January 18, 2012

When you want to create a new site in your SharePoint intranet, this is the page you’re presented with. It’s pretty daunting for an inexperienced site administrator or content owner: …

Helping intranet authors write quality content

By: James Robertson Posted: September 29, 2011

p>One of the keys to a successful intranet is high quality, well written content, making it both useful and usable. Writing for the online medium is different from writing for …