One problem I often hear when talking with any organization about new solutions is understanding the cost and inefficiency of their existing way solutions, processes, or general way of doing things. In the past year or two I have used various general measurements around search to help focus the need for improvement not only on search, but the needed information and metadata needed to improve search.

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Source: www.personalinfocloud.com Posted by support 718 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes ago

Content management systems are increasingly becoming back end “black box” content stores. This trend towards commoditization puts a decreasing importance on the system and an increasing importance on the ways in which the system capabilities are surfaced. There are several trends that I have observed and continue to see manifest though customer interactions, blog chatter and market awareness.

I am seeing a resurgence in portal fronted web applications. The difference between these and the all-or-nothing portals that were popular 5-10 years ago is that these that leverage rich ECM capabilities on the back end to provide versioning, document libraries, digital asset management, conversion, transcoding, workflow and other “rich” ECM features.

Source: cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com Posted by bee 731 days, 1 hour, 57 minutes ago

The pursuit of the Enterprise 2.0 utopia promised, described and promoted across the web has attracted the committed, the curious and the cautious. As we move further up the adoption curve the amount of success as well as failures increase. This is the second in a short, three part series about the common mistakes in Enterprise 2.0 strategies and how to avoid them.

The three common mistakes of E20 are:

1. Technology treated as an ends rather than a means.
2. IT as leading the business rather than supporting the business.
3. Information architecture that is walled and gated when there is no good reason for it to be that way.

Source: cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com Posted by support 734 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes ago

There is no doubt, we have a love-hate relationship with email. As much as we say we would like to ditch this modern millstone, there is plenty of evidence to show that email remains entrenched in the information workplace as a core communication tool.

Worldwide email traffic continues to grow at an enormous rate and is now measured in billions of messages per day. This trend is also reflected inside organisations, where according to Gartner Research it is typically growing at a rate of 30% each year.

However, these numbers only tell one side of the story. Access to corporate email might be common place, but opinion remains divided about its effectiveness. As the volume of email has increased, so have the complaints about information overload, the impact of poor communication and inefficient collaboration practices. In response to these issues, technologists have created more new tools that each promise to solve the email problem better than the last.

Source: www.headshift.com Posted by bee 738 days, 6 hours, 41 minutes ago

Toby Ward

SharePoint 2010 officially launches on May 12, 2010. However, there are many organizations already using the BETA version, and some of us had the opportunity to initially play with it last year.

There have been many improvements to 2010, not the least of which are those in social computing and enterprise content management (ECM). But does MOSS 2010 live up to the hype? Is it worth the investment or at least serious consideration?

Source: intranetblog.blogware.com Posted by bee 740 days, 20 hours, 23 minutes ago

One of the key issues is the implications of these approaches for the organization and its key functional areas. Not surprisingly, there are a particular set of pressing issues for the IT department. These are covered in the report - we have excerpted Chapter 19 on the implications for IT below.

WHAT ENTERPRISE 2.0 MEANS FOR IT

Enterprise 2.0 has significant implications for the IT function of organizations. It is of course generally the responsibility of the IT function to facilitate the adoption of technologies that create value for the enterprise. However Enterprise 2.0 technologies both have significant cultural aspects to their use and uptake, and can have a significant impact on the underlying business processes and even value creation inside the organization.

Source: rossdawsonblog.com Posted by bee 742 days, 18 hours, 44 minutes ago

Is good navigation important? A client recently asked me: “Navigation, isn’t that a bit old hat? I mean, this is the time of Google. Doesn’t everybody just search?”

No, they don’t. Good navigation and good links are vital for the success of a website. A search feature is an added bonus, sure. But if you have one, it has to be as good as Google or even better.

Less than 5% uses the search feature Google might be insanely popular but that doesn’t mean the search feature on your website is too.

Source: webusability-blog.com Posted by bee 744 days, 7 hours, 22 minutes ago

Enterprise 2.0 means different things to different people, and Microsoft has had to play catch up to the smaller and often more nimble vendors that play in the social software space. Nevertheless, MOSS2007 was probably the first foray into 'social' computing for many an enterprise, providing blog and wiki functionality, and RSS feeds. So how does SharePoint 2010 stack up?

For our quick and dirty evaluation of SharePoint 2010 from an Enterprise 2.0 perspective, where better to start than the ‘father’ of the term, Prof. Andrew McAfee, and his SLATES model.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by bee 744 days, 19 hours, 10 minutes ago

Google search appliance helps you to search your local company intranet.  It is as fast and simple as the google.com website. At google.com we search the whole web. But Large companies and even small companies are now started to feel the need for searching the documents in their intranet in a google way.

Google search appliance is a device which indexes the documents in your local intranet in a sea...

Source: www.axleration.com Posted by bee 746 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes ago

I’m about to install and muck around with Open Atrium as an social network intranet product for a client. It’s based on social networking software Drupal, and is free to download.

Open Atrium is completely customizable. If you want a feature that’s not on that list, you can add it yourself. Read the documentation, specifically the How to Build a Feature section, to find out how to do it.

Source: laurelpapworth.com Posted by bee 750 days, 18 hours ago