Based on my experience and knowledge gained when I was the BT Intranet manager and helping other organisations implement many SharePoint 2010 features I can help you too using my checklist.

SharePoint 2010 may be “the best sweetie shop in town” for all its range of features for people to use but the need for effective governance raises for intranet professionals a different set of challenges. The strategy for SharePoint 2010 governance has to be very different to other publishing or collaborative tools.

I believe there are three approaches which can give your organisation the right governance it needs with SharePoint 2010. You don’t have to use just one. You can combine some of each to find the right blend for your organisation.

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 90 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes ago

Who should own the intranet? Communications? IT? HR? All of them? You may be shocked to learn that many companies don’t know the answer; in fact, many organizations can’t clearly answer with any confidence whom is the present intranet owner.

Gone are the days where a single IT geek creates an intranet on a server under his desk, and manages the whole kit-and-kaboodle (at least in a real business environment that doesn’t feature the cast of Dilbert). Also in retreat, facing extinction (where budget permits) is the ‘wild west’ intranet: anyone can do whatever they want, and they do.

Source: www.intranetblog.com Posted by admin 115 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes ago

I have been answering the question “How do I engage employees and improve collaboration?”...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 197 days, 9 hours, 45 minutes ago

When you have one of the best intranets globally – don’t take my word for it, ask the Intranet Benchmarking Forum who independently assessed it – why would you decide to make the biggest change to your intranet since it was created over 15 years ago?

Simply communicate have published a great article I have written which explains why BT decided on SharePoint 2010 and how it went about implementing it successfully while I was the BT Intranet manager.

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 218 days, 14 hours, 36 minutes ago

The global intranet manager should govern the intranet, not manage it. The word “governance” is often used to cover both, but we should in fact make a distinction:

• Governance is a steering framework that defines strategic goals, decision-making (who and how), accountability, and procedures for reconciling differences.

• Management, on the other hand, refers to how the governance decisions and principles are put into practice. For example: the definition of guidelines and rules, life-cycle steps, processes, editorial policies, standardization, and so on.

Intranet managers responsible for large intranet eco-systems should focus on governing, not managing. Their vocation should be to help bring meaning and relevance for people using these systems.

Source: netjmc.com Posted by bee 286 days, 13 hours, 27 minutes ago

Intranet governance, especially social intranet governance, is tough. We believe intranet governance matters and that it is a crucial factor in the success or failure of an intranet implementation.

We help our ThoughtFarmer clients in their intranet roll-outs by doing a review of some basic governance topics, providing links to some great resources from folks like Martin White, James Robertson, Maish Nichani, and Toby Ward, and by asking a lot of questions.

I’ve compiled some of the big questions that we find lead to important discussions when it comes to intranet governance and management. While long, it’s by no means an exhaustive list — as always, we appreciate hearing what questions you’ve found helpful in making your own intranet decision-making process that much better.

Source: www.thoughtfarmer.com Posted by admin 299 days, 6 hours, 2 minutes ago

19 new case studies of enterprise portals find slow growth in new features; the focus is on robust integration and formalizing governance.

For this latest research round, we looked at intranet portals in 19 organizations, spanning the globe from Australia's ANZ Bank to the British Red Cross and South African Breweries. In total, across all the research, our recommendations for portal design are now based on 67 case studies of intranet portals.

Source: www.useit.com Posted by admin 309 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes ago

This year’s Digital Workplace Trends survey (open in the second part of June) will be taking a look at some future scenarios.

Organizations often need to provide goals and plans for 3 to 5 years out. Knowing what other organizations are thinking about can help!

Source: netjmc.com Posted by admin 355 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes ago

In less than 24 hours I had great feedback to my definitions of groups regarding collaboration. Once again, the internet has accelerated my work! Clearly, I need to adjust and enlarge my definition of “community of practice”. If you did not follow the conversation, you can see it here in the comments. Thanks very much to Peter, Willem, Graham and Martin.

My original definition of CoP was too limited. I was thinking of the groups of managers who practice the same functional role in large global organizat...

Source: netjmc.com Posted by bee 400 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes ago

Creating a policy about blogging and social networking offers a chance to minimize the risks for employers, says attorney Thomas Deer. It makes employees aware of their employers’ position on the use of social media, and it provides a reference point if it is necessary to take adverse action against someone for their online activity.

When preparing policies to deal with blogging, employers should be cautious about not going “too far,” Deer says. The NLRA can be a tripwire for the unwary. For example, a policy prohibiting employees from saying “anything negative” about their employer would clearly run afoul of the NLRB since this type of discussion is at the core of the right to form unions or engage in concerted activity.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by bee 414 days, 5 hours, 29 minutes ago