10th October, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 4 Comments
First, let me start off with a bit of a disclaimer. I’m not an anti-Facebook zealot and my goal isn’t to discourage the use of Facebook by companies and organizations. To the contrary, one of the biggest roles of my job is to explain how social media channels can be used effectively. So, with that said, my goal with this series of posts is to educate anyone considering the use of Facebook as their corporate Intranet to seriously reconsider. Using Facebook for a corporate Intranet is like using a hammer to loosen a nut. It can be done, but…why??
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17th August, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments
If you haven’t figured it out already, it’s a Google kinda world out there and your Intranet users expect your search functionality to provide them with accurate, relevant results to their search queries. With that in mind, if you haven’t already begun the process of building a federate search strategy, it’s time to do so.
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9th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 15 Comments
Okay Intranet fans, here it is…the 2009 completely unofficial list of must have functionality for every Intranet:
{drumroll please….}
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28th March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments
Who isn’t interested in accomplishing Single Sign-On? You know, that nirvana of Identity Management where users only ever have to sign on to their local workstation and then have completely unfettered access to applications throughout the enterprise. While this concept may sound great to end-users and executives, it’s an absolute nightmare concept for IT personnel and application administrators.
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22nd March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments
One of the strengths of a good Intranet portal is the ability to integrate the disparate applications that exist within an enterprise. Just because links to the applications are presented in the portal or, in some cases, even natively surfaced in the portal doesn’t make them effectively integrated. Take a look at the following tips and see if they indicate that your portal has mashups or messes.
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15th March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments
How often do we question the technologies that our organization relies on? Are we trapped by legacy systems and users who are unwilling to adopt new solutions? Do these excuses keep us from asking “Why” we need a specific solution, is it useful, and is there a better alternative? This article looks at one such situation and provides some good justification for Intranet Portals.
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