Category: SharePoint

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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Apps for Intranets

August 16, 2011 7 Comments by Sam Marshall
collage of iPhone Apps

Since Apple launched its App Store, over 1bn applications have been downloaded. This year, it expanded the idea to cover its Mac computers and sold 1 million apps on its day of launch. Given such unequivocal success, are there things that we might learn for the intranet world? The idea could be translated several ways. [...]

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Collaborating or communicating?

August 4, 2011 No Comments by Sam Marshall
pyramid

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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