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Feb 2024
Sharing highlights from one of our assessment scenarios - along with the scores for 20 intranet products....
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information architecture Tag
13
Dec 2021
Intranets can work really well when considered in isolation, but if the surrounding area has dozens of disconnected communication sites, it's time to reassess....
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15
Jul 2019
There can be no user experience design-related matters without user research; but if you need to keep costs close to zero, you’ll want to do your own lightweight research....
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Jul 2013
At Intranets 2013 in Sydney earlier this year I was invited to join a 'mythbuster' session where I was asked to debunk the belief that "Everything must be 3 clicks or less from the intranet home page". This post summarises the case I made, or you can watch the 5-minute video:[video file="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2M97pGKhGE" width="560" height="315" tjpbbb7E="false"]The principle that everything should be within 3 clicks has been...
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Apr 2012
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
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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