SharePoint 2010 is an amazingly rich, and powerful platform; it’s also frustratingly simple, and frequently underwhelms. It’s a testament to the Microsoft organization that SharePoint (in some shape or form, at some level of deployment, often limited to a work group or department) is present and running in more than two-thirds of all medium to [...]

Who should own the intranet? Communications? IT? HR? All of them? You may be shocked to learn that many companies don’t know the answer; in fact, many organizations can’t clearly answer with any confidence whom is the present intranet owner. Gone are the days where a single IT geek creates an intranet on a server [...]

The good news: most organizations have social media on their intranet. The truth: very few organizations, about 9%, have a true social intranet. According to the Social Intranet Study of 1,401 participants in organizations of all sizes (conducted by Prescient Digital Media and IABC), intranets are becoming more social, but there’s a fair bit of [...]

God bless dictatorships. Particularly authoritative states, and communist ‘republics’. In fact, let allah bless all nations that have an absence of any form of true or suppressed democracy. Where there’s a lack of democracy, there’s a fantastically large intranet in the making. In fact, if it weren’t for dictators, communist strongmen and military fuhrers, the [...]

Any time I write about or discuss SharePoint and I dare mention any of its weaknesses instead of focusing solely on its strengths some SharePoint zealot suffers great indignation at my gall for criticizing the ultimate, perfect technology. (Sarcasm: /ˈsɑr kæz əm/ Noun. 1. harsh or bitter derision or irony. 2. a sharply ironical taunt; [...]

It’s difficult study leading intranets without firsthand access to someone else’s intranet. However, our recent webinar, The Best Intranets from the Intranet Global Forum (with Kurt Sorensen, and myself), was a chance for a wide audience (300 organizations worldwide) to see how some of the very best intranets look, operate and achieve success. Great case [...]

I ditched a lot of classes in middle high school. In retrospect, it was a  dumb move. Learning the error of my ways, I cleaned-up my act later in grade 11 and was highly attentive in the critical final year, grade 12. I was a kid, naive and a little stupid, but not so stupid [...]

Steve Jobs never cared much for the corporate market; he was his charming self when he referred to corporate offices as “orifices.” However, “orifices” everywhere are snatching up iPads, and iPhones for corporate use, to access the corporate intranet. One of Prescient’s clients has purchased 3,000 iPads for its staff, and plans to purchase 2,000 [...]

There’s a lot to learn from the best: what to do, what not to do, and how to do it. So goes the old proverb: You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing. Amongst the very best, elite intranets on the planet were on showcase at the [...]

A team of more than 40 IBM consultants have undertaken a massive redesign of IBM’s web properties: a galactic redesign that includes both the external website and internal intranet. The core objective: a Single design system that converges the intranet (W3) and Internet standards, incorporates reusable design patterns and evolves the design system through collaboration. [...]