In November I was in Stockholm for Intranätdagarna 2011:2 (The Intranet Days 2011:2) and during my two-day visit to the Swedish capital, I had the pleasure of talking to Paul Miller from Intranet Benchmarking Forum. Among other things we spent some time talking about the proclaimed death of intranets which I believe is greatly exaggerated.

Since then I have started at my third intranet related job at a new company and this has given me an opportunity to get a closer look behind the scenes of an intranet...

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Of the thousands upon thousands of companies with intranets around the globe, the Nielsen Norman Group selects 10 each year for its list of the best-designed intranets. There must be something pretty special about those intranets.

According to intranet managers at three of this year's top 10 companies—LivePerson, Genentech, and NCR Corp.—the culture surrounding their intranets is more important than the technology under the hood.

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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.

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“If we gave you a team site, would it be useful to you?”

We’ve said before that the breadth of SharePoint is both its strength and weakness. Intranet and project teams now have a powerful new tool to help the organisation work better, but what features to deploy?

The classic technology-centric approach is to talk to stakeholders in each business area, asking questions such as:

• What additional capabilities do you want on the intranet?

• Which of the following features would be useful to you?

• If you had (feature), how could you make use of it?

• What can we do with the new version of SharePoint?

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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...

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Not all staff needs are the same. Staff in different parts of the organisation, located in different areas and doing different jobs will have quite distinct needs.

In a globe-spanning manufacturing business, these differences are very obvious: individual countries sell different products; the sales division operates very differently from product development; and field engineers are not office-based designers.

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The Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF), the global leader in benchmarking, interaction and research for intranets has announced its research program for 2012. Topics include intranet strategy and governance and the next generation of intranets.

Elizabeth Marsh, IBF’s Chief Knowledge Officer, said “We’re excited about the 2012 research program.  Over the years IBF has built up a rich library of intranet-related research for its members, and there will be some great additions nex...

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The company intranet is kind of like the middle child in a family. We care about it, but its siblings usually get more attention. In this scenario, the siblings are external websites and social media channels. Websites always seem to get the makeover and the budget allocations when push comes to shove. Since social media is the last born, it’s the pride and joy of the company and leaders are focusing on this fun and energizing medium.

What many companies and leaders do not understand is that the intranet connects employees with the company and is an important engagement tool. Engagement equals happy employees, less turnover, increased innovation and savings on the bottom line. These things matter.

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Without question, intranet managers should care about the communities they curate. But should they be in love with them? According to the Intranet Benchmarking Forum, they should.

“There is something about how good an intranet is that is down to the personality of the person managing it,” Mark Morell, “the intranet pioneer” and a benchmarker, told the hosts of this month’s IBF Live broadcast. “If you get the right person with the right qualities, you can achieve a lot more than a similar organization in...

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From blogs to wikis and activity streams to social networking sites, businesses today have a plethora of options to choose from when they select a vehicle for implementing a social strategy. Determining how your organization enhances its intranet with social collaboration ideas depends on the needs and behaviors of your employees. Each business has a different sweet spot when it comes to creating an engaging social environment that sparks collaboration and meaningful dialogue, and its success is dependent on unearthing your employees' key motivational drivers and tailoring a strategy to meet them.

Here are the top three things your organization can do to tailor an approach that will appeal to your employees and drive engagement and participation...

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