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Intranet 2.0 in Ten (Not-So-Easy) Steps
Chris McGrath of Thought Farmer presented a great session on the new wave of intranets. 1. Blow up your old intranet. It probably has become a document dumping group. (I think of it as a roach motel. Documents go in, but they never come out.) 2. Turn Users into Authors. Turn readers into writers. Let [...]
Back to Work with a Present of SharePoint 2007
After a wonderful four weeks of paternity leave, I am back in the office working on our knowledge management projects. As a welcome back present, the development team upgraded our intranet from SharePoint 2003 to Micrososoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007. Unfortunately, they are still working on a few permission and editing issues which is keeping [...]
Managing Social Networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Eric Charran published his whitepaper on: Managing social networking with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The whitepaper points out a few ways that SharePoint can be used to expose more information about a person inside the firm. It does not provide the level of interaction or a flow information as powerful as Facebook. SharePoint does [...]
Knowledge Management with Folksonomies and Tagging
Although tagging and the folksonomy the tags create have interested me, I have a hard time figuring out how they would work inside a law firm. Sure it would be great to allow users to add tags to pages on our intranet or other web-based applications. It would also be valuable to compile tags for [...]
Knowledge Management and Organization
Way back in June, I sat through (and enjoyed) a presentation by David Weinberger at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. As a result I put his book, Everything is Miscellaneous on my reading list. Having just finished reading the book, I was pleased to stumble across a video of his presentation. It is great [...]
A-Z Indexes on Intranets
Louise Ferguson put together a piece on the Intranet Benchmarking Forum: A-Z Indexes on Intranets. We have an A-Z on the current version of our intranet. It serves three purposes: It serves as a placeholder for content not on the intranet, but just a person to call on the topic. It helps with the short-comings [...]
Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous
Jakob Nielsen in his Alertbox thinks Web 2.0 can be dangerous, but thinks Web 2.0 features are great for an intranet: “Community features are particularly useful on intranets, and many of the Intranet Design Annual winners offer them. The reasons communities work better on intranets also explains why they’re often less useful on the open [...]
Intranet Navigation
An intranet is one of the foundation tools for a knowledge management program. We are currently working on the redesign of our SharePoint intranet. This will be our third generation intranet using SharePoint. The redesign team has spent a great deal of time discussing navigation on the intranet. I have come to the realization that [...]
Facebook as an Intranet
Bill Ives wrote on the The FASTForward Blog about how Serena has Adopted Facebook as Their Intranet. They established a private group in Facebook for the company’s employees. They built a few Facebook applications to interact with a simple content management system behind their firewall. One of the reasons I use and experiment with Facebook [...]
Weather and Your Intranet
I have generally frowned on the weather display on intranet pages. But I saw this and found it interesting. This SharePoint webpart from Bamboo Solutions could display the weather for all or our offices in one place, side by side. Comparing the weather is much more interesting, than just seeing your weather information. In LA [...]
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