28th December, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 4 Comments
2009 has been a great year full of exciting opportunities, great projects, engaging conversations, and healthy dialog about the topics of Intranets, Enterprise Content Management, and Enterprise 2.0. As I reflect on the events that have occurred over the last year, I’m amazed at how much has transpired and how many new people I have had the honor of connecting with.
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20th December, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 12 Comments
Is Enterprise Content Management going the way of the Intranet and becoming an outdated notion? Will better federated search technologies negate the need for a central repository? Are organizations better off investing in the functional elements of ECM like document management, records management, and business process management instead of buying the whole enchilada?
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13th December, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments
The recent explosion of social media platforms coupled with the financial meltdown driving a need for operational improvement has left purchasers exploring low-cost open source options, which is driving commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vendors to rethink their licensing models. In addition, purchasers of Intranet software have started to expect expanded social media functionality and expanded options for licensing/hosting as Software as a Service (SaaS) becomes more popular. In this piece, we’ll focus on the new platforms available for Intranets and some of the options available to organizations to reduce internal costs and maintain system stability while ensuring that their users have access to a wide variety of features.
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27th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 1 Comment
As the centralized point of access to organizational information, your Intranet portal may also represent a potential security risk. This is especially true if your portal is accessible to employees via the Internet. If your Intranet authentication is tied to your Active Directory or LDAP, be sure to put policies in place that ensure that your employees change their passwords on a periodic basis. In addition, be sure to encourage (or require) employees to use “strong” passwords, that are comprised of a combination of alpha characters, numbers, symbols and mixed cases.
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20th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments
Although I’m a huge fan of Twitter, I have never been a big fan of the native Twitter search engine. As a result, I’m always looking for better ways to keep up with tweets on Intranet topics. While Tweetdeck is by far my favorite tool, I have to say I was curious when I heard that both Bing and Google were going to provide search interfaces into Twitter.
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9th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments
As a follow up to my 99 Great Intranet Resources and 99 Great ECM Resources posts, I have also created a list of 99 great Internal Communications Resources on Twitter. If you’re looking for the folks who tweet about employee engagement, thought leadership, internal mass communication tools, and intranets…these are your folks!
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3rd November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 9 Comments
Over the last few years, the social media boom has forced Intranet portal vendors to rethink some of their licensing models and expand their feature functionality. “Traditional” intranet portals that are simply presentations layers with a back-end content management system just don’t cut it anymore. Instead, organizations want their employees to generate peer-to-peer content using 2.0 functionality like blogs, wikis, and tagging instead of relying on one-way messages from the top.
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1st November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 1 Comment
Check out this list of 99 great Intranet resources that I added to my Intranet list on Twitter! If you’re looking for Intranet resources to follow, these are your folks!
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