My post on ‘Measuring the value SharePoint 2010 can bring to your organisation’ caused a few comments, for example, Stephen Arnold posted ‘SharePoint: The new black?‘ and an intranet professional said ’I'm struggling to find the value I expected, at least obvious enough to sell to management’. The real lesson you must learn is IT IS HOW YOUR ORGANISATION USES SP2010 THAT WILL DECIDE WHAT VALUE IT BRINGS. Like any other technology SP2010 can do lots of things well, or not so well.  That’s mainly down to...

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In my last two posts I have covered the benefits and drawbacks of SharePoint 2010′ restricting use and encouraging best practice and how this fits with a great governance strategy. I’m will now cover the benefits and drawbacks of preventing problems with SP2010 features. You need to get your strategy right and what it is you want to achieve.  Is it encouraging innovation and keeping governance light touch?  Or is it to prevent the ‘wrong’ behaviour and minimise risk of your brand and reputation being d...

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I have completed Jane McConnell’s annual survey.  It is a great way to find out the latest trends in intranets and how your’s fits in. If you are involved in intranet management for your organisation, join the 5th annual Global Intranet Strategies survey and get a free copy of “Global Intranet Trends for 2011″, published end of October (commercial value 750 USD, 550 euros). Over 300 organisations have so far completed this year’s survey.  The closing date is 1 September so you only have a few days left...

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When I posted about the latest results for BT ‘BT Intranet 2010 benchmark results‘ I promised to give examples the Intranet Benchmarking Forum highlighted as global best practice.  The first three examples are:About our content: IBF said all pages across BT’s intranet contain author and date informationHow involving everyone can make your intranet more valuable to your organisation: IBF said BT’s intranet supports our values to be open and straightforward in dealings with colleaguesHow you integrate your...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 659 days, 18 hours, 18 minutes ago

When I posted about the latest results for BT ‘BT Intranet 2010 benchmark results‘ I promised to give examples the Intranet Benchmarking Forum highlighted as global best practice. The first example was about our content.  IBF said all pages across BT’s intranet contain author and date information. My next example is about how involving everyone can make your intranet more valuable to your organisation.  IBF said BT’s intranet supports our values to be open and straightforward in dealings with colleague...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 678 days, 12 hours ago