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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The hype of personalized portals

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

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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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