Facebook As A Company Intranet Is A Nightmare Waiting To Happen

29th August, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 6 Comments

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about whether Facebook is a suitable platform for organizations to build a corporate intranet. The fact that most employees are already on Facebook, combined with the low pricepoint (aka Free) often leads fiscally-focused executives to make statements like “Why build an Intranet, we can just use Facebook.”

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Recent Volcanic Eruption Can Help Stress The Importance Of Your Intranet Apps

24th April, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

Sometimes opportunities knock quietly….and sometimes they hit us with explosive force. The trouble is, we often miss them even though they are staring us right in the face. As an example, take a look at the recent volcanic explosion in Iceland. This natural disaster has demonstrated the need for business travelers to have access to their corporate information, regardless of where they are located.

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Intranet Tip – Weak Passwords Jeopardize Organizational Security

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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Intranet Best Practices –
Building A Federated Search Strategy

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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Intranet Tip for 08/04/09 – Identity Management Expectations

4th August, 2009 - Posted By Angela Cullen - No Comments

When selecting an Identity Management Application, don’t expected it to integrate seamlessly with every application in your enterprise.

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My Foul Owl Ordeal – The Juicy Details Of Getting My Blog Hacked And Being Suspended By Twitter

23rd June, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 7 Comments

Warning: This is a long blog post detailing my adventures through blocked blogs and suspended Twitter accounts. If you’re looking for a short read or have a really short attention span, you’d be better off checking out my Tweets or skipping to the end of this post where there are some key lessons learned from [...]

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