Content Management Matters ™

Intranet search is appalling because people don't want their content to get found, and the organization does not value the importance of finding.

The first step in creating a genuinely useful intranet is to ban the intranet team from using the word "information".

Jakob Nielsen has released his latest Intranet Design Annual. In it he lists the 10 best Intranets for 2008, discussing why they won. While the winners are interesting to know, what’s even more important are the reasons why they won – offering best practices and guidance to companies who want to make their own Intranet better.

Today marks the release of TagManage 2007, an SMB (small and mid-sized business) app for social bookmarking and blogging. TagManage was created by samuelbressi productions (yes, all lowercase).

Clients can install TagManage onto their intranets and enable employees to bookmark frequently-visited sites and publish blog entries.

"TagManage is built upon four basic, fundamental principles: bookmark, blog, tag, and share," said Samuel Bressi. (We'll let you guess what his position is in the company.)

"Users can apply tags to bookmarks, blogs, and even other users, creating a social mesh of shared resources."

Bookmarks and blog entries can be marked either public or private, making it a dandy addition to enterprises that want to reinvigorate the line between public and private activity.

Mess around with TagManage at the TagManage website.

If the intranet is to show genuine value to the organization, it must prove that it is increasing productivity and reducing costs.

Copenhagen-based Web CMS purveyor Sitecore has just announced the launch of Intranet Portal, which helps businesses provide employees with contextual information within a secured and central locale.

What makes this intranet offering such a big deal? It boasts a user experience that promises to match a given enterprise's website.

Staff overwhelmingly want a better organized intranet where they can quickly find people, policies and procedures, and forms.

Wikis are making the Internet a more collaborative source. Today, technology is ubiquitous and knowledge is not created alone, but by groups.