Category: Governance

A review of the 2011 in Intranets and the Digital Workplace

January 4, 2012 7 Comments by Sam Marshall
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Many people are boldly doing 2012 predictions, which is nice guesswork if you can get it. I’m going to stick to more certain ground and talk about the 10 things that stood out for me in 2011. 1) Intranets remained stubbornly not dead. There seemed to be a rash of articles by people writing headlines [...]

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4 Guiding principles for blending social and traditional intranets

August 11, 2011 No Comments by Sam Marshall
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Blending top-down and bottom-up How should how traditional intranet and social intranet approaches co-exist? Many organisations have invested heavily in highly structured and well governed intranets, but they also struggle to get regular, widespread content contributions. A social approach offers the promise of higher engagement levels and more dynamic content, but such tools are often [...]

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Collaborating or communicating?

August 4, 2011 No Comments by Sam Marshall
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One of the questions I increasingly encounter with intranet governance is when to use team sites (collaboration areas) and when to use publishing sites (‘intranet’ pages). It’s important to be clear about when somethign is still work-in-progress and you want people to make changes (collaboration), and when it is a product that you are disseminating [...]

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What flavour is your intranet?

August 4, 2011 No Comments by Sam Marshall
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At the IntraTeam Event in Copenhagen earlier this year, the ever-popular debate about how much news should feature on your intranet homepage was given another outing. There are other variants such as “who should own the intranet?” and “should we have one intranet or several?”. Like relatives at Christmas, these pop up periodically, hang around [...]

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