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Cuban Search Engine Indexes Castro Speeches

Toby Ward — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:14:13 -0500

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

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Selling A New Intranet to Senior Management

Toby Ward — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:12:12 -0500

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.

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Hiring an intranet consultant or manager

Toby Ward — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:10:40 -0500

“8 of 10 hires are hired for their knowledge and technical skills,” says Edgar Papke, CEO of Living Change. “9 out of 10 fires are for poor teamwork and interpersonal skills.”

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Converting paper forms to intranet forms

Toby Ward — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:25:48 -0500

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.

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Poor intranet policy management could lead to lawsuits

Toby Ward — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:21:14 -0500

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.

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6 timely intranet resolutions

Toby Ward — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:19:19 -0500

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.

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5% of your website delivers 25% of the value

Toby Ward — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:49:41 -0500

“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...

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Intranet key to good HR

Toby Ward — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:39:03 -0500

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.

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Social media (Web 2.0): are you in?

Toby Ward — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:40:38 -0500

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?

Intranet design is important, but not that important

Toby Ward — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:04:25 -0500

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?

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Intranet Officer

Toby Ward — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:24:23 -0500

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

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Predictions for 2007

Toby Ward — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:49:18 -0500

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

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How to craft a policy for Internet usage

Toby Ward — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:06:41 -0500

(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 ...

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Intranet as a shopping mall (for ROI)

Toby Ward — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:05:52 -0500

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.

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Why you should or shouldn’t choose Microsoft Sharepoint

Toby Ward — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:03:03 -0500

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.

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Job: Senior Communications Officer

Toby Ward — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:49:31 -0500

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

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10 Best Intranets of 2007

Toby Ward — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:52:41 -0500

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.

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Goodwill goes open source for intranet

Toby Ward — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:53:44 -0500

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

Calculate the Cost of an E-Mail Storage System

Toby Ward — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:33:55 -0500

(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

Good to great intranet

Toby Ward — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:22:34 -0500

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

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The end of internal communications

Toby Ward — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:20:10 -0500

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.

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Job posting: Corporate Journalist/Writer - Global Financial Services Company

Toby Ward — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:25:16 -0500

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 ...

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Portal personalization: who’s doing it?

Toby Ward — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:24:37 -0500

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.

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Standards for Good Intranet & Extranet Design

Toby Ward — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:32:47 -0500

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

Standards for Good Intranet & Extranet Design

Too much useless information

Toby Ward — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:31:31 -0500

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

The 2006 PCC Excellence Awards

Toby Ward — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:12:16 -0500

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

Intranet job – Technical Publisher

Toby Ward — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:04:41 -0500

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.

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Definition of an intranet

Toby Ward — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:56:26 -0500

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

Open source myths

Toby Ward — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:53:28 -0500

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

A Cure Worse Than the Disease

Toby Ward — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:09:15 -0500

(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