Search has been a hot topic in the intranet space for a long time. Why can’t I find what I’m looking for inside the company, just like with Google on the Internet. Martin White’s breakout at the Intranet Conference (Congres Intranet) was about this topic and want to help us improve intranet search.

White started out by asking which search engine we used. A long list of search platforms is mentioned, ranging from open source search technology to Sharepoint search. Not many participants have the same engine.

This illustrates one of the points White wanted to make. Search isn’t easy. It not easy on the internet, and it’s hard on the intranet as well. He shows how different the search results are. This is not helpful for users and it makes search unnessissararily complex. This is one of the reasons user go for the easiest route on the internet: just use Google.

Source: info-architecture.blogspot.com Posted by JennyWilliams 426 days, 1 hour, 30 minutes ago

Where does your site’s best content come from? If you don’t know or if you’re producing it, there could be a problem. Diversifying your content’s sources is key to providing content that represents different perspectives about relevant topics. As well, by diversifying sources you can help facilitate a collaborative workflow.

But how can you begin to get others to create and share content? If your company already has an intranet or uses social collaboration tools such as Yammer for communicating, that’s a great start. You can simply put out an All Points Bulletin for specific content. However, if your company has a culture that isn’t yet conducive to sharing information with others, you might have to start with basic strategies.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by JennyWilliams 431 days, 25 minutes ago

projects), but in reality most companies are doing some form of governance even if they don’t call it “governance”. Taken literally, to govern means to steer, and in general terms governance is the exercising of the required checks and balances to provide guidance to an organization, and maintain the correct course.

You will find that there will not be a “one size fits all” model that works for you. Some content on your intranet will demand very strict governance, but other information is more transient and does not require formal governance models to be in place.

Regardless of the level of governance that you need, there will be some common strategic imperatives that drive adoption of governance models...

Source: www.intranetlife.com Posted by JennyWilliams 446 days, 16 hours, 36 minutes ago

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on the essentials for social computing and collaboration for business. The first of those essentials was a recommendation to have a maniacal focus on garnering adoption. As I speak with customers around the world, I find that an increasing number of companies are struggling with the mechanics of how to accelerate adoption of the social computing capabilities they’ve made available to the enterprise. Worse yet, many are apprehensive about moving forward with some of the truly transformative ways to use social computing because they fear that their organizations are more conservative than most, and their users are probably not going to be up for using these cutting-edge ways of interacting and collaborating.

While these seem like perfectly reasonable objections, accelerating adoption is possible in the most conservative of user bases. Here are a few ways to do so in your organization.

Source: blog.pateljeetu.com Posted by JennyWilliams 767 days, 18 hours, 30 minutes ago