Comments on: Why Intranet Governance? http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/04/why-governance/ Topics relating to Intranets, portals, enterprise content management, internal communications, and social media in the workplace Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sean R. Nicholson http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/2009/04/why-governance/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Sean R. Nicholson Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:19:36 +0000 http://www.intranetexperience.com/ourblog/?p=166#comment-16 Governance is especially important for organizations that are just growing to the size of needing an Intranet. Often, an Intranet can grow into a series of disjointed internal Web sites that don't have any common look and feel, navigation, or search functionality. Basically, a lot of puzzle pieces that form no logical picture. The key is to balance the governance of the direction and growth of the Intranet with the need for content contribution. One great way to accomplish that is with workflow. Let anyone contribute content, but allow it to be reviewed before being posted. It's a tough balance, but when you combine strong governance with enterprise content contribution, your Intranet can grow at a staggering rate. Governance is especially important for organizations that are just growing to the size of needing an Intranet. Often, an Intranet can grow into a series of disjointed internal Web sites that don’t have any common look and feel, navigation, or search functionality. Basically, a lot of puzzle pieces that form no logical picture.

The key is to balance the governance of the direction and growth of the Intranet with the need for content contribution. One great way to accomplish that is with workflow. Let anyone contribute content, but allow it to be reviewed before being posted.

It’s a tough balance, but when you combine strong governance with enterprise content contribution, your Intranet can grow at a staggering rate.

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