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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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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