Living in a world of writing 140 characters or less has caused basic writing skills to go out the window. Maybe the opposite is true of writing such a long article no one wants to take the time to read it.

Take advantage of the benefits of your Intranet Wiki to encourage non-writers to feel comfortable contributing as well as curbing the enthusiasm of your book authors to shorten their information.

Source: www.virtualroundtable.com Posted by admin 225 days, 7 hours, 22 minutes ago

Introduction to Intranets is a new project and its goal is to create a book called "Introduction to Intranets".

The book will be an anthology, edited by a team and written by practitioners and experts in the field of intranets. It will cover all aspects of an intranet, but on an introductory level.

The book will be divided into sections with several chapters. Every chapter introduces a new subject, written by an expert, that is relevant for intranets, and ends with references and links to further reading in blogs and books.

Background

This project started with a blog post "What do you want from an introduction to intranets book?" published on the 26th of january 2011. A few comments and tweets later this project started!

There are numerous books in English on the subject of intranets (about 2000 books on Amazon.com). Most of these books were published a few years ago and most don't have intranets as their main focus.

There is no single go-to website that serves as a starting place for further reading on intranets. This is what this project is about. A book that you could give to a senior manager. Or anyone else that needs to understand what an intranet is all about.

How to contribute?

There are many ways you can contribute and be part of this project:

• Read articles and comment
• Edit articles
• Add references and links to articles
• Write an article yourself!
• Write a case study for any of the articles

More information: Introduction to Intranets or follow on twitter at: @IntraIntro.

Source: introductiontointranets.com Posted by admin 470 days, 15 hours, 23 minutes ago

If you don’t have one already, rolling out an enterprise internal wiki for your team’s or company’s use should be the ultimate no-brainer decision.

Yet even today, when you suggest using a wiki inside your company, people sometimes raise objections based on fear, ignorance, myths, outdated beliefs about how companies should function, and common misunderstandings about enterprise wikis. Be ready to answer these objections so you can move forward and be productive!

Source: www.voximate.com Posted by bee 567 days, 6 hours, 37 minutes ago

Blink and you will miss it. Waiver and your competition will beat you.

The competition is using social media as a competitive advantage; in fact, the vast majority of organizations (of all sizes) are somewhere between advanced use, and piloting or planning the deployment of enterprise or intranet 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis and even employee networking tools. If your organization is not using social media to engage employees, it is risking obsolescence.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 596 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes ago

The central threads of Web 2.0 – blogs, wikis, user-generated content, bookmarking, social networking groups – are not just providing the wiring for the social web – they are beginning to make their presence felt within the business web too, with some excellent results.

Taking a leaf from their social brethern, some companies are infusing new life into intranets, and even corporate websites with these web 2.0 tools. The use of these tools is increasingly relevant for IT businesses given that they are so knowledge centric.

Source: youtubemarketingcoaching.co.cc Posted by support 626 days, 11 hours, 33 minutes ago

by Angela Cullen

When building a business case around a social Intranet, there are a few key components to consider. Here are five suggested features that you might ask your potential vendors to demonstrate.

1. Forum Collaboration
2. Social Tagging and Ranking
3. Document Storage & Collaboration
4. Expertise Finder
5. Knowledge Base or Wiki

Source: www.intranetexperience.com Posted by bee 662 days, 5 hours, 17 minutes ago

Mike Volpe, the Vice President of Inbound Marketing at Hubspot discusses 4 important ways that using a corporate wiki has helped their company grow to over 2,500 customers in three years.

Source: www.editme.com Posted by msmamet 673 days, 10 hours, 35 minutes ago

Put simply, Enterprise 2.0 is the use of Web 2.0 tools in a commercial/business context where business value is determined through the contributions of participants.

Web 2.0 is the term for web-based tools and services that enable (and often improve with) user participation. The most well-know examples of this technology is found in sites like YouTube and Amazon where user ratings make it easier for other users to find what they are looking for, or Wikipedia, where users provide all of the content. The majority of these technologies began with consumer-facing sites, but it didn’t take long for people to find ways of applying these ideas to the enterprise.

(Enterprise 2.0 is also commonly referred to as Enterprise Web 2.0, Enterprise networking and Intranet 2.0. Intranet 2.0 is the use of Enterprise 2.0 technologies within the intranet. For the purposes of this article we will refer to Enterprise 2.0 technologies.)

Source: advice.cio.com Posted by bee 739 days, 16 hours, 12 minutes ago

The original intranet, intranet 1.0, typically began as a nothing more than a technology outpost under some techie’s desk in the corporate basement. The first version of this intranet was nothing more than a welcome page, perhaps a name and a phone number, and a simple welcome message.

*Intranet 1.0 grew and evolved rapidly, more so at some organizations than others, but in some respects, faster than corporate websites who had a few years’ head start with the advent of the ‘super information highway’ *

Source: intranetblog.blogware.com Posted by bee 763 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes ago