G. Oliver Young is fast becoming my new hero. Every time this Forrester analyst puts out a paper, it provides me with fodder to support my arguments supporting social media in the enterprise.

Intranet search performs miserably because most organizations do not properly manage their content.

The intranet is still in its infancy. It has not yet exploited its potential for creating value for the organization, according to the 2006 Global Intranet Strategies Survey.

An organization-centric intranet is departmental-based. A staff-centric intranet is task-based. Organization-centric intranets fail. Task-centric intranets succeed. Here’s why.

Who’s who? More than anything else, staff want to get in touch with other staff. Most organizations are poor at facilitating such interactions.

How to prioritize content and determine where to link it on an Intranet or portal…

Melcrum Publishing has just published a research report entitled Transforming Your Intranet.’

Travelling to the UK today, ahead of co-presenting the second one-day workshop for Melcrum in London tomorrow on Enhancing your Intranet with New Technology: How to Make the Most of Social Media.

The launch of intranet blogs by McDonald’s is significant because it’s not a high-tech company.

A single website is more connected and credible. It is more consistent and cost effective. It is easier to manage and measure.

The Millennium Experience

A successful project is one that delivers on-spec (`quality’), time and cost. Right? Well consider these two projects

Many intranets are only now beginning to show their true potential. However, many staff, having had unsatisfactory previous experiences of the intranet, may need quite some convincing that the intranet is now genuinely useful.

Thank God for Constantin Basturea’s list of CEO bloggers on his NewPR wiki,TheNewPR Wiki.

JotSpot, which sells an enterprise wiki application, has added a blogging utility to its product line.

In this article, David Viney looks at how collaboration between and amongst teams can become a killer application on your Intranet Portal.

The key difference between an (old-fashioned) Intranet and a Portal

The natural home of the intranet is in communications. However, intranet management requires particular skills that many traditional communications departments don’t have.

The days of easy money are over In these post-dot-com days of the 21st Century, the hype attached to IT is well and truly over.

In this short article, David Viney examines whether Rapid Application Development (RAD) or Waterfall development methodologies should be used during Intranet Portal projects.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.”

Internal blogging is discussed more and more. It doesn’t surprise me. If we compare to web communication in general an intranet is for many companies more effective in terms of ROI than an external site.

Issue

What are the effective compromises in supporting multi-languages on a global Intranet?