5 Key Features To Consider When Choosing A Social Intranet

30th July, 2010 - Posted By Angela Cullen - 2 Comments

When building a business case around a social Intranet, there are a few key components to consider. Here are five suggested features that you might ask your potential vendors to demonstrate.

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99 Great Enterprise Content Management Resources – Sean’s ECM Twitter List

6th November, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments

As a follow up to my 99 Great Intranet Resources post, I have also created a list of 99 great Enterprise Content Management Resources on Twitter. If you’re looking for the folks who know, speak, live, learn, and love ECM, these are your folks!

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Intranet Best Practices – Creating an Intranet Governance Team

26th October, 2009 - Posted By Angela Cullen - 3 Comments

When developing your Intranet, it’s best not to develop in a vacuum. You may not be the best person to make decisions on how employees will use the intranet to do their job. Be sure to identify employees that will be involved in the maintenance of the portal and get everyone involved in the design process. Create an Intranet Governance Council that will include at least one member from each department throughout your company. Bigger departments might have 2 or 3. Let the members of the governance council represent their department and tell you what employees in their department need to be able to do their job more efficiently.

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It’s 2AM, Do You Know Where Your Organizational Information Is??

21st October, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments

The reality is that organizations are generating more and more information on an hourly basis. Take a moment and think about all the documents, spreadsheets, presentations, emails, voice mails, and sticky notes you generated on a daily basis just 3 years ago. Now, add modern day blogs, tweets, text messages, forum posts, comments, status updates, videos, podcasts, and wiki posts to your list and what do you get? More information? Definitely! But the larger problem is the fact that the information is now spread out in more places, making it harder for other employees and customers to find it.

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Calling All Intranet Professionals! The 2010 Intranet Trends Report Wants You!

23rd July, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments

In April of 2009, I published a blog post listing the Must Have Resource for Intranet Professionals in 2009. Included in the list are the valuable resources located at Intranet Strategies by JMC and, in particular, the annual Global Intranet Trends Report. This comprehensive resources consolidates feedback from organizations of all shapes and sizes and analyzes the trends impacting Intranets in the coming year.

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Document Management vs. Content Management vs. Knowledge Management Part 2 – Understanding Content Management

31st May, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 1 Comment

In the second article in this series, we’ll focus on understanding Content Management and how it differs from Document Management and Knowledge Management. If you recall from the first article in the series, Document Management is all about how we create, manage, route, retain, and destroy the container that we refer to as a document. Content Management, on the other hand, focuses primarily on the information stored inside that container and how you can effectively add/edit/delete the information in the document.

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