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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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04 Aug 2011

Collaborating or Communicating?

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Governance, Intranets, SharePoint
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One of the questions I increasingly encounter with intranet governance is when to use team sites (collaboration areas) and when to use publishing sites (‘intranet’ pages). It's important to be clear about when somethign is still work-in-progress and you want people to make changes (collaboration), and when it is a product that you are disseminating (communication).A variant is when to put content on a department...

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