Time to get your priorities straight; unless you have very strong governance, content, information architecture, and self-service tools, social media shouldn’t be a top priority. Social media shouldn’t be ignored either… The problem with most intranets, is that they are pretty awful. This is not usually the intranet manager’s fault, nor IT’s; lack of governance, [...]

Despite the moans and groans about the difficulties in managing SharePoint, the inherit governance properties of SP2010 is comparatively strong – when compared to similar portal and enterprise content management platforms. In fact, it is one of SharePoint’s strengths. The site collection concept – think the portal home page, structure and information architecture (though you [...]

Speculation is running rampant, and Microsoft has yet to confirm anything, but expect the next version of SharePoint (SP) – dubbed SharePoint 15 – to be released by Spring 2013. We do know for certain, however, that MS has put significant money into redesigning the user interface – the look-and-feel –by a factor of four. [...]

Imagine one of the big banks or manufacturers turning their corporate website into a social website, allowing readers to comment on press releases, or inviting users to rate executive bios? That would be amusing… but not going to happen. A social business (referring to the common definition associated with enterprise technology, akin to enterprise 2.0, [...]

PepsiCo Russia is the largest producer of soft drinks and snack products in Russia, and the CIS states (the former Soviet Union). A consolidated consumer brand company that includes Frito Lay, Gatorade, Quaker Oats, that recently integrated many regional food and juice brands and companies such as ZKZ Lebedyansky and Wimm-Bill-Dann. Of course, with many [...]

(MOSCOW, RUSSIA) Not unlike the great literature and poetry of some of the Russian greats such as Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Pushkin, of which I am so fond, the Russian intranets also show great potential. And akin to ours in the Western World, the social intranet is still in its infancy in the former Soviet Union. [...]

Truth be told, a successful social intranet is remarkably similar to an intranet. Not unlike like the high-performance sports car to the family car, a high-performance social intranet resembles the corporate, family intranet at first glance… but only when it’s not performing to expectations. A flourishing social intranet needs many of the requisites of a [...]

Intranet 2.0 is a label used loosely to describe the application and adoption of Web 2.0 or social media technology behind the corporate firewall. In short, it’s Web 2.0 but on the corporate intranet. The intranet 2.0 label has largely faded to black, and has been replaced by the more fashionable label, the social intranet. [...]

Let’s face it, Intranet 1.0 kind of…. well, it sucked. As I wander the halls of clients and talk with employees in focus groups and workshops, I’ve yet to hear, “Wow, remember that first intranet we had… that rocked. Good times.” Yeah, Intranet 1.0 really sucked. Intranet 2.0 is the promise of something so much [...]

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 [...]