“Intranet as a platform” can be an effective metaphor when communicating the purpose of the intranet to senior management.

A number of participants in the Global Intranet Strategies survey this year used the term “platform” when responding to the question “How have you achieved or increased the awareness and involvement of senior management in the intranet?”

Source: netjmc.com Posted by support 599 days, 19 hours, 47 minutes ago

Most teams will conduct an intranet review of some description. It could be an ongoing process throughout the year or an annual event. Either way an intranet review should be on your annual to-do-list.

What should be included in the review, to help the team build a better intranet in the coming year? This article suggests some annual activities that will make intranet reviews more productive and useful, but it is not a complete or exhaustive list.

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by support 600 days, 17 hours, 22 minutes ago

Information management agility is about being able to deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. But what if there's just so much information that we are caught in a battle trying to find the things that are relevant to achieve our goals? There is a way to get past this information overload and improve findability.

We’ve been hearing about the problem of information overload for years now. The exponential growth of information within our organizations is deemed as so problematic that it negatively affects employee productivity and ultimately results in increased levels of operational costs as a result of an inability to easily sift through it all.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 600 days, 17 hours, 38 minutes ago

Even as metaphors are worth a thousand pictures, images are worth a thousand words -- at least a hundred. We are a visually active society, and we see images in our own culture, language, and context more than we are able to take words in.

A list of image sources from CoversationAgent

Source: www.conversationagent.com Posted by support 601 days, 5 hours, 9 minutes ago

*This is a list of favorite features of SharePoint 2010 from a consultant that helps clients to find out and describe their requirements for intranet services. *

During the past years working with SharePoint 2007 there were many dark moments where the platform didn’t really live up to expectations. These top-5 items are my favorite additions to SharePoint 2010 that make my work easier with clients:

• Search enhancements (mainly facets)
• Metadata driven navigation
• Managed metadata service
• Ratings and tags
• Workspace – client

Source: www.sharepointblues.com Posted by support 601 days, 6 hours, 21 minutes ago

With the ever-increasing sales of smartphones and the burgeoning tablet market starting to skyrocket, coupled with far greater access to more robust mobile data networks, the internet is now being accessed by our users in a multitude of new ways.

The huge range of mobile devices used to browse the web now means you really have to consider making your site mobile-compatible.

But how do you go about it? Testing your site on mobile devices can be time-consuming and expensive due to the vast number of different mobile devices.

Fear not, because there are some handy tools available at your disposal for making sure that your website renders appropriately on the Mobile Web. This article shares and discusses 10 such tools.

Source: sixrevisions.com Posted by support 601 days, 6 hours, 48 minutes ago

Kill enterprise architecture, provide infinite scalability, cost pennies per day -- these are just a few of our overblown expectations for the cloud

A recent post by Deloitte asked whether cloud computing makes enterprise architecture irrelevant: "With less reliance on massive, monolithic enterprise solutions, it's tempting to think that the hard work of creating a sustainable enterprise architecture (EA) is also behind us.

So, as many companies make the move to cloud computing, they anticipate leaving behind a lot of the headaches of enterprise architecture."

Source: www.infoworld.com Posted by support 602 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes ago

Microblogging is so much more than the 140-character blurb it once was. Today, it's a concept that's heating the cores of collaboration platforms across the enterprise. And, while conversation is still front-and-center for most providers, we're seeing a lot of solutions dressed in the same accessories.

Here are just a few perks that are making the rounds:

• Drag and Drop: Share files directly in an activity/microblog stream by dragging them from your computer into the feed.

• Unified Search: Search a term and unified search sifts through pretty much everything that lives in the stream: messages, files, links, profiles, etc.

• "Follow" More Stuff: Many activity streams offer users the option to "follow" colleagues just like they would follow people on Twitter, but now that functionality is being extended to documents and tasks so being up-to-date on the most recent developments is a piece of cake.

• Groups: Grouping colleagues in an activity stream comes in handy when a user only wants to view updates about specific projects or teams.

• Mobile compatibility: Many enterprise-level activity streams are making their way to mobile devices, enabling employees to collaborate on the go.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by support 604 days, 14 hours, 51 minutes ago

Does social software adoption have you singing the blues? If so, you're not alone.

In the enterprise social software world, everyone's talking about adoption. There are breakouts on it at Enterprise 2.0. Lots of smart people are blogging about it. There's LinkedIn forum. There's even a whole Council dedicated to social software adoption.

Why is adoption such an issue?

The standard response is to blame organizational culture. Eavesdrop on adoption conversations and you'll hear things like this

• "Corporations incentivize for knowledge-hoarding."
• "People over 30 just don't get social networking."
• "Workers aren't comfortable with transparency."
• "We have a culture of email that's hard to change."

To borrow a phrase from always-quotable Dennis Howlett: What a crock.

To borrow another phrase from the also-quotable Pogo: We have met the enemy and he is us.

Source: michaeli.typepad.com Posted by support 606 days, 2 hours, 39 minutes ago

Great collection of resources for understanding the social workplace. Catagorized by:

• REPORTS (FREE)
• REPORTS (PAID)
• MISC RESOURCE COLLECTIONS
• SOME FACTS & STATS
• INFOGRAPHICS
• TRENDS

Source: www.thecontenteconomy.com Posted by support 606 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes ago