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31 Jul 2012

SharePoint 2013: What’s New for Intranet Sites

by Sam Marshall
in Communications, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners.SharePoint 2013 SeriesIs SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites (this post) SharePoint 2013 social features SharePoint 2013 for collaboration SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming)See our summary webinar...

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30 Jul 2012

Is SharePoint 2013 Worth Waiting For?

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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The new SharePoint has been released as a public preview, along with hopes by the Microsoft team of “leapfrogging expectations” (see the launch blog post). Is it worth holding out for the full release? Do the new features make it compelling to those planning a social intranet?[frame]This post is the first of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular...

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22 Apr 2012

SharePoint Metadata: What Business Users Need To Know

by Sam Marshall
in Governance, SharePoint, Technology
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With SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced some very flexible tools for representing metadata on intranets. However, getting value from this requires that business units take ownership of it, and the available documentation tends to focus on the "how" rather than the "why".ClearBox therefore presented a workshop at IntraTeam 2012 on SharePoint Metadata: What Business Users Need to Know. Sharepoint metadata workshop from Sam Marshall [frame] Want to...

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12 Apr 2012

SharePoint Intranets: Are We Communicating or Collaborating?

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Governance, SharePoint
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Communication vs. CollaborationImagine if you are going to buy a new sofa, and instead of entering a showroom you are taken straight into the workshop. Inside there are rolls of fabric, wooden frames of part-built sofas, others that look nearly finished but you can’t quite tell. You pick out one that you like only to be told that it’s last year’s model and no longer...

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29 Feb 2012

IntraTeam Conference Day 2: What’s Happening in Intranets and the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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This is part 2 of a day-by-day blog of Intrateam 2012See also: Day 1, Day 3 Tony Byrne - Latest Trends in Collaboration and Social Computing Within Larger Enterprises Tony (@TonyByrne) of the Real Story Group (RSG) began by saying: If you throw in blogs, wikis etc. at the organisation and people don't use them, it's not an adoption problem, it's a technology strategy problem; you haven't...

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29 Feb 2012

How Good is Your People Finder?

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Technology
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Here is a quick checklist that you can use to rate your phone book 'maturity'.Count your points for the following: 1)  1 Point if all your employees are in one phone book —2 bonus points if contractors are too —2 bonus points if you have supplier contacts 2) 1 Point if all employee data comes from a master source —2 bonus points if you have a process to check accuracy (e.g. when...

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28 Feb 2012

What’s Happening in Intranets and the Digital Workplace – IntraTeam 2012

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint
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 I'm at IntraTeam 2012 in Denmark and will be blogging my take on the highlights (apologies to the speakers in tracks I miss).see also: Day 2, Day 3Today's pre-conference workshops featured: Jim Ylisela  on Writing for the Internal Web  Jim (@jpyjr) reckons our employees are getting rapidly cynical as intranet content falls behind web content; it's boring, not interactive, words not video.For articles, nobody follows the Who,...

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04 Jan 2012

A Review of the 2011 in Intranets and the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Governance, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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Many people are boldly doing 2012 predictions, which is nice guesswork if you can get it. I’m going to stick to more certain ground and talk about the 10 things that stood out for me in 2011.1) Intranets remained stubbornly not dead. There seemed to be a rash of articles by people writing headlines “The Intranet is Dead” and then saying why it wasn’t. Unfortunately...

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24 Aug 2011

Intranet Strategy Needs Leaders Not Managers

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy
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When I run workshops on intranets, I sometimes put down cards on the floor labelled “HR”, “IT”, “Communications” etc. and ask people to stand on the card that reflects who sponsors their intranet. Typically there are clusters around Communications and IT, one on “Knowledge Management” and a few people that end up playing Twister trying to straddle multiple cards. Others merely sigh and shuffle over...

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16 Aug 2011

Apps for Intranets

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint
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[caption id="attachment_366" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo by Christiano Betta[/caption]Since Apple launched its App Store, over 1bn applications have been downloaded. This year, it expanded the idea to cover its Mac computers and sold 1 million apps on its day of launch. Given such unequivocal success, are there things that we might learn for the intranet world? The idea could be translated several ways. Perhaps intranet interfaces...

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