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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“If you’re looking for a low threat, low risk introduction (to social media in the enterprise)… curation is a good place to start,” says Shel Holtz, speaking at The Social Intranet Summit in Vancouver (Surviving your intranet’s content crisis). “Curation is a relatively new trend online, and is absolutely vital to an organization; not an [...]

The Intranet Innovation Awards are the awards that recognize and reward intranet innovation and excellence. This does not mean that in order to qualify for an award that an organization have the World’s best intranet, but merely a very innovative quality, application, or solution to a challenge or strategic objective. Past winners have won awards [...]

Social media on the intranet (Intranet 2.0) is not a fad, or a passing trend that will fade away. Despite the curmudgeonly calls of the greying Luddites it’s not just here to stay, it’s breaking through the firewall with increasing velocity. Consider the findings of the Intranet 2.0 Global Study: 87% of organizations have at [...]