Comments on: Top 10 Must Haves For Every Good Intranet

By: mstegink

mstegink — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:51:47 +0000

@seanrnicholson Thanks, great Intranet resources. Another one for your list: http://www.netjmc.net/intranet-trends/ Anyone has more?

By: seanrnicholson

seanrnicholson — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:58:55 +0000

@mstegink: RE: NextGen Intranet – Check out http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblo... & http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblo... & Intranet Review Toolkit http://www.intranetreviewtoolkit.com/

By: Wedge

Wedge — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:11:05 +0000

I don’t run a good intranet, but I’m glad to see I can tick of many of these basic ideas. Will come back and re-view, thanks.

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By: Sean R. Nicholson

Sean R. Nicholson — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:43:34 +0000

You make great points and I actually agree with you. An Intranet is most definitely not a single thing, which is my I include document management, ECM, blogging, KM, etc…in my posts. My perspective is that an Intranet is as much of a cloud as the Internet is and each organizations Intranet can be as simple as a group of networked computers and a fileshare or as complex as hundreds of applications operating together, leveraging common interoperability platforms and identity management.

Thanks for the comment! All POV are welcome!

By: Joe Schueller

Joe Schueller — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:12:10 +0000

It feels like you’re treating an intranet like it a single thing done by a single person for the benefit of the enterprise.

It seems like the ideal way to get stuck in an infinite loop of the people “in the field” wondering what people “at HQ” do all day (and vice versa).

Intranet websites, teamspaces and groupware have suffered this for a long time, and they never really ended up supplanting e-mail and distribution lists, and we find enterprise after enterprise chasing good money after bad.

Moreover, you’re going to ask for a massive investment in design, taxonomy, content management, portal technology, etc, that doesn’t really acknowledge that the modern enterprise is essentially going to be a number of free agents banding together in ad-hoc tribes to deliver on initiatives, not a cohesive mass that all is going to want the same information, taxonomy, and interaction. It’s far more heterogeneous than that.

I think you NAILED interoperability, and it really is all about the content and interaction. I just think you may be overstating the importance of taxonomy and governance and a single “thing” that is the intranet. It is kind of like calling Twitter a “website.” While technically correct, it isn’t what it is about.

By: ArianaShef

ArianaShef — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:48 +0000

Hi there, not sure that this is true, but thanks

By: Sean R. Nicholson

Sean R. Nicholson — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:00:06 +0000

Jessica,

Thanks for the feedback! You may use pieces of the post as long as you provide a backlink to the original article.

–Sean

By: Jessicacloks

Jessicacloks — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:25:38 +0000

Great! Thank you very much! I always wanted to write in my blog something like that. Can I take part of your post to my site? Of course, I will add backlink? Regards

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