The new Cuban Internet search engine does not connect users to the World Wide Web, but instead runs on Cuban servers limited to a Cuban Intranet

Read Cuban Search Engine Indexes Castro Speeches (Slippery Brick)

Getting the necessary support and funding for an intranet redesign is usually a struggle at most organizations, particularly when most view the intranet as a cost center – a necessary evil. To change this mindset, intranet managers need to show them the money.

Read Selling A New Intranet to Senior Management 

Read Hiring an intranet consultant or manager

Despite the advances in technology and the potentially massive benefits and impressive ROI accrued from converting paper-based forms to online submission, many intranets still host a majority of their forms in MS-Word and PDF.

Read Converting paper forms to intranet forms.

New research shows that nearly 50% of UK organisations could be leaving themselves open to litigation through managing their corporate policies primarily on the intranet.

Read Poor intranet policy management could lead to lawsuits.

t’s a little late for New Year’s resolutions, but we’re still early in the budget year for most (or near the end for others). Nonetheless, the intranet is usually in a state of improvement.

Read 6 timely intranet resolutions

“The Long Neck is where the business case of your websites lies. It is the small, crucial set of tasks and content that your customers really come to your website for...

Read 5% of your website delivers 25% of the value

The value of a really good intranet is considerable and immense. While usage, ROI, and employee satisfaction are typical and traditional performance measure for the intranet, the intranet is also leading to improved retention and job satisfaction.

Read Intranet key to good HR

How pervasive are social media tools (such as blogs and podcasts) becoming? Here are some of the numbers (taken from the CNW seminar series).

Social media (Web 2.0): are you in?

The world’s biggest intranet, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet serves more than 500,000 users. The end users are happy with the intranet – whether its dependability, support, or the ability to find information – user satisfaction is about 70%. Mission accomplished. Or is it?

Read Intranet design is important, but not that important

(The Observer - UK) Our remit includes managing and developing the Council's website, Intranet and geographical information systems along with records and knowledge management.

See Intranet Officer

Predicitions for intranets in the coming year including CMS, KM, and Web 2.0.

Read Predictions for 2007

(ZDNetIndia) It is imperative that you inform your users about the purpose and use of the company Intranet and Internet. By educating your users and setting out a clear ...

ReadHow to craft a policy for Internet usage

Intranets don’t deliver good ROI; applications deliver great ROI. Or so we’re told.

The intranet benefits applications as the mall benefits stores. Intranets drive traffic to applications which reap the big ROI.

I receive many, many questions about different content management systems and portal products and asked for my opinions on one product or vendor versus another. The number one vendor I’m questioned about is Microsoft, particularly Sharepoint.

Read Why you should or shouldn’t choose Microsoft Sharepoint

The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (UK) is looking for a senior communications officer that includes leading the website and intranet development.

See Senior Communications Officer

The start of a new year brings a lot of hype – the promise of bigger, better, faster; predictions and prognostications for the future; and the annual Intranet Design Annual by Jakob Nielsen et al.

Read 10 Best Intranets of 2007

Not a lot of organizations are choosing open source software for their enterprise intranet. It has been seen as risky. But open source is changing and evolving – for the better.

Goodwill goes open source for intranet

(Baseline Magazine) Last year, it felt as though you spent half your day on e-mail. This year, you actually do. Like most companies today, the volume of e-mail continues to outpace your wildest expectations. That's why implementing an e-mail storage management system is as close to a no-brainer as your I.T. initiatives get.

Calculate the Cost of an E-Mail Storage System

What is the difference between a good intranet and a great intranet? What do you do to get to great?

See Good to great intranet

The intranet is not a communications tool; nor a technology. And it’s certainly not just a website. The intranet is a business system to support the entire company. It touches and represents all facets of the business, and if executed properly, improves all aspects of the business.

Read The end of internal communications

Day-to-day you will be writing for a 75000 circulation magazine and group intranet site as well as contributing when necessary to shareholder reports and ...

See Corporate Journalist/Writer - Global Financial Services Company

Personalization is a feature set on an intranet or portal (customer, partner or employee) that allows the user the pick and choose the types of information or applications (portlets) that will appear on his or her home page.

Read Portal personalization: who’s doing it?

Dave Pollard’s 16 standards for improving or constructing an effective intranet.

Standards for Good Intranet & Extranet Design

Middle managers spend more than a quarter of their time searching for information necessary to their jobs, and when they do find it, it is often wrong, according to results of an Accenture study.

Too much useless information

This year’s winners from the Shared Insights' Portals, Collaboration, and Content (PCC) Conference, including Best Customer or Partner Portal, Best Employee Portal, Best Content Management Portal.

The 2006 PCC Excellence Awards

A Seattle area recruiting firm is seeking a Technical Publishing/Project Management resource who will contribute to the overall design and architecture of a client’s intranet portal site, and going forward, will manage all publishing, site/content maintenance, content and features enhancements, etc. to facilitate communications about the group’s vision, mission, and execution of all key initiatives.

See Intranet job – Technical Publisher

Though intranets are about 15 years old now, the definition of an intranet continues to vary from source to source. To ensure there are no misunderstandings and to let the reader better understand and define for themselves the meaning of intranet, here are some of the varying definitions...

Definition of an intranet

Perhaps the most valuable education you can get on open source solutions, and more bang-for-the-buck then any book or course: Seth Gottlieb’s top 8 myths about open source – myths for both the critics (anti) and supporters (pro).

Open source myths

(Strategy Page - USA) The NMCI (Navy Marine Corps Intranet) project, a $9 billion effort to improve security and networking, has encountered a lot of unexpected problems.  

A Cure Worse Than the Disease

Any of you fellow parents out there know that the wish list letter to Santa is a big deal. My daughter Rachel had her letter in the mail on December 1. Anything Barbie or Bratz is an instant winner. Frankly, I think they all look like cheap harlots.

The intranet wish list for Santa

Corps planners are hashing out something bigger than the $11.9 billion computer network leathernecks and sailors love to hate.

Navy, Corps plan next-generation computer network

An intranet is about 20% technology, 80% people and process. To change or redesign the intranet has in fact little to do with design, and everything to do with change management.

Changing intranet, changing attitudes

Users Unhappy With Massive Navy Intranet, GAO Says

(Computerworld) -- The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet program has yet to meet user expectations even though $3.7 billion has been spent on the effort over six years, according to a report released earlier this month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

December 18, 2006

The best IT advice

I can’t speak much to punch cards and wave division multiplexing doesn’t resonate with me but I can sure speak well to the remaining advice and recommendations.

For intranet case studies and other musings visit www.IntranetBlog.com

© 2006 Toby Ward - Prescient Digital Media

Syndicate Bank Deploys e-Circular

Extending intranet access with VPN

Branding the intranet

Government's £30 million Connect project gathers pace

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© 2006 Toby Ward - Prescient Digital Media

The hype of personalized portals

Portals Show Signs of Sanity
Feds reach out to remote employees through satellite technology
Blogging Intelligence

For intranet case studies and other musings visit www.IntranetBlog.com

© 2006 Toby Ward - Prescient Digital Media

Usability overkill

Dabble DB releases Web database, bags financing
Top Ten tips for a successful Intranet

Intranet communications: improving HR service and communications

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© 2006 Toby Ward - Prescient Digital Media

Leading an intranet redesign

Town looks to wire intranet on Comcast’s dime

KMWorld & Intranets Returns to San Jose with Added Content

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© 2006 Toby Ward - Prescient Digital Media

BellSouth among IT social-service winners

Global intranet survey

SharePoint Gets Search Analytics

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© 2006 Toby Ward - Prescient Digital Media

Intranet discussion forums deliver mixed results

CEO's Guide To Enterprise 2.0
Case study: Runnymede benefits from Document Management
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