Intranets News & Articles

I think I'll sit down and watch some television now. Let's see… hmm… What am I in the mood for? Am I feeling guilty about watching TV? If so, maybe I should check PBS and see if Nova is on? Maybe I'm a little depressed and I should check out Comedy Central and see if Louis CK is on. But wait a minute… there are comedy shows on other channels and there are educational programs all over the dial as well!

There's been nothing more talked about this week than the Facebook IPO. Not just because a lot of people are going to make a lot of money -- well OK, maybe that's exactly why everyone is so jazzed up. It's been reported that more than 1000 millionaires were created yesterday.

The FB stock closed at a mediocre US$ 38.23 with a market cap of US$ 104.82 billion -- roughly 50% of Google's market value. A vigorous first day on the market saw 580 million shares trade hands but not much of the spike that many expected.

But we see more here. The IPO signifies notable things for big data and acts as a health signal for the social business space overall.

Beyond the Facebook IPO chatter, we've been looking at changes taking place within the social enterprise:

• Say 'No' to Expensive Intranets
• Social Business Software - Solitary Child, Amongst Close Friends or Mr. Popular?
• How Mobile is Changing Organizational Structures and the Future Workplace

REMINDER: Next Wednesday, May 23rd, our Mobile Experience Tweet Jam takes place and we'd love to see you there. Get the details here.

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• Gartner's Cool Vendors in Content Management Are Social, Collaborative, Cloud-based
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• Say 'No' to Expensive Intranets
• Gartner's Cool Social CRM Vendors Feed Information Into Business Processes
• Apple's New Features for iOS 6 on the Map? Plus, More Mini iPad Rumors

Editor's Picks

• Adobe Muse 1.0 Promises Web Design Without Code Writing
• Organize SharePoint Content: Don't Upgrade Your Mess
• OpenText, Autonomy Lead Digital Asset Management Pack in Forrester Wave
• Social Business Software - Solitary Child, Amongst Close Friends or Mr. Popular?
• Adobe Updates on Communities, e-Commerce & a New Cloud Manager

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• Social media is reinventing how business is done
• Naming Things

Featured Events (all events | post your event)

• May 30 -- (Webinar) How to Drive Innovation, Productivity with a Social Intranet
• Jun 03 -- Semantic Technology & Business Conference San Francisco
• Jun 18 -- Enterprise 2.0 Summit Boston
• Jun 19 -- The Gamification Summit San Francisco
• Jun 26 -- Forrester's Customer Experience Forum New York

Featured Jobs (all jobs | post your job)

• Content Manager -- Textbooks in Seattle at Amazon
• Web Content Editor in California at Esri
• Director of Solution Services in San Francisco at Limelight Networks
• Software Sales Representative in Sydney at Telerik
• UX Designer in Virginia at Appian

You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a great intranet.

A great many of the content and tools for employees are badly designed and managed because management does not respect employee time.

Seth Godin describes a Linchpin in his best selling book "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?" as:

the person who is indispensable, because they refuse to become an interchangeable part, someone who merely follows the manual...the linchpins leverage something internal, not external, to create a position of power and value.”

Earlier this month we pointed out that Yammer has moved past basic social networking and into primary productivity tool territory. But that news was nothing compared to its latest announcement -- universal search.

Intranet governance is critical to intranet success. Why, then, do so few organizations get it right?

Signs of social business are readily found on the internet today. But when considering social business inside the enterprise, the evidence isn't always as clear.

While organizations are recognizing that they no longer control the message in the social web, and a lot is written about how consumers shape perceptions about brands, products and services, the role of the employee is often underrated.

Intranets are usually envisioned as a centralized tool for collaborating and sharing information, but in many cases the vision does not equal the reality. Intranets often become stagnant repositories of hard to locate, inconsistent information.

It seems the intranet is getting an infusion of new life in the form of social networking. Last week we reported on Jive’s new social intranet; this week platform-as-a-service provider eXo is announcing their social intranet as a service, Cloud Workspaces.

The theme of this month’s issue is digital asset management, a technology that I know very little about. What I do know is that they help web managers manage photographs, videos and other graphic media assets, so let me offer some reflections on these.

In this week's installment of The Art of SharePoint Success, we are going to consider how we can further evolve the model developed in the previous two posts, discuss what Microsoft are doing to “fix” their own intranet and speculate wildly about what might be coming in SharePoint 15.

Hold on to your Easter bonnets…

Digital Asset Management is a specialist sub-set of Content Management, one which has developed along it's own evolutionary past. It has grown out of the needs of the traditional publishing industry to manage photographic images for print publications, and developed into an adjunct of web content management to manage still images, video and audio files as "rich media" content for web sites and other media.

The sun is shining and spring is in the air. What better way to spend the warmest day of the year in the UK than penning the latest episode of the Art of SharePoint Success?

Many companies face the challenge of getting their customers the right product at the right time. And many companies employ a taxonomy to help drive product sales and improve findability on consumer-facing public websites.