SharePoint 2016 will largely be about easing technology delivery rather than new features. Bitten by a corporate reluctance to move wholesale to the cloud, SharePoint will be more flexible about mixing on-premises and cloud services. ...
Read MoreSharePoint 2016 will largely be about easing technology delivery rather than new features. Bitten by a corporate reluctance to move wholesale to the cloud, SharePoint will be more flexible about mixing on-premises and cloud services. ...
Read MoreThose contributing to the health and usefulness of your intranet deserve a secret grotto. But any community needs a strong purpose to thrive, so invest your time wisely to support your expended comms network....
Read MoreCollaboration isn't so much about the technology, but rather the culture and embedded ways of working. What can you do to support the four elements of collaboration?...
Read MoreThis year's Intranet Innovation Awards by Step Two unearthed a rich set of interesting practices in the intranet and digital workplace world. Notably, it was often the smaller organisations that set the standards. On November 3rd, the European-based winners and commended entries came together. Thanks to Richard Hare of Intranetters for hosting the event, and Steve Bynghall for organising the awards on behalf of Step Two.As...
Read MorePlenty of companies have early success with Yammer. And then it stalls. Or they hit growing pains and the early enthusiasm wanes.This scenario can happen to any enterprise social network (ESN), but it seems most pronounced in Yammer, partly because Yammer has such a large market share, but also because its freemium model means that the usual business-case test criteria (and the useful thinking that...
Read MoreHierarchy has become the bogeyman of the "future of work" movement. Listen to some commentators, and it sounds as if the honest worker in the corporation is being oppressed by power-crazed managers, hoarding information like Gollum with a hangover. Presumably some of these managers were promoted from honest worker level, so does hierarchy bestow power, which immediately corrupts?Not so fast. There are definitely bad hierarchies,...
Read MoreThird and final day of IntraTeam Event Copenhagen 2014. After Kurt's welcome, I spoke first about a roadmap for the digital workplace, and then it was back to live blogging all the other talks and workshops. A fantastic day to end a fantastic conference....
Read MoreLive blogging from Interaction 2013 in London, hosted by Interact Intranet #iic13[caption id="attachment_1580" align="alignright" width="150"] Interaction 2013[/caption] Michael Sampson - Collaboration on the Intranet Michael (@collabguy) began with 'The 5% problem for intranets': Typical functions of the intranet - Communication, Content, Workflow - are important, but only represent a small fraction of what people do in their working day. What really matters in Collaboration.Things people struggle with on...
Read MoreLive blogging from Day 2 (see also Day 1). It's been a fantastic conference so far, so I'll try to do justice to today's tracks (and apologies in advance when it goes silent at the end as I've the privilege of being the closing keynote -- no pressure then!). Conference agenda.Creating Trust and Uniting staff at a global and local level. Kim Sbarcea - ThinkingShiftJames...
Read MoreLive blogging from Step Two's Intranet Conference 15-16th May. Conference agendaIntroduction - James Robertson The conference theme is "Intranets Unite", both in the sense of Intranets uniting people in our organizations, and as an event for intranet managers to come together and share. A lively audience of about 160 have come togetherJames argued that on the theme of uniting mobile intranets, we don't want 20 different apps...
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