(PHILADELPHIA, PA – J. Boye) Insights from CMS Watch founder, and co-author of the CMS Watch Report, Tony Byrne. Tony Byrne, CMS Watch: SharePoint is part product, part platform, part ecosystem – a collection of technologies that have varying degrees of finish Under-reported and under-appreciated dimension of SharePoint: built solidly on (almost) latest .NET platform [...]

(NEW YORK) Intranets help empower employees and sales teams to increase sales; a revenue enhancing benefit that is far too often overlooked by too many organizations. IKEA U.S. has 37 stores, with over 12,000 co-workers; an employee audience that is both geographically dispersed, and has limited capacity to connect to the intranet. However, a challenging [...]

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BT, once known as British Telecom, has 160,000 intranet users in 170 countries. A key driver in its technology strategy is an overarching corporate goal to be

The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) is know for helping safeguard the health of U.S. citizens, but its also home to 14,000 staff (9,000 are federal employee + contractors).   In 1993, CDC launched their first intranet, CDC Connects.     Overview: Employees: 14,000 staff Staff: 4 full-time employee communications staff (plus contract [...]

Universal McCann (UM) is a global media communications agency with 2800 employees in 66 countries. UM undertakes massive marketing campaigns and media buys for large Fortune 500s such as Coke, Mastercard, Microsoft, and others. With a highly distributed workforce, UM found that knowledge and expertise was often trapped in geographic silos that could not be [...]

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IBF24 ran a contest during the 24 hour marathon webinar on intranets called

Innovation and collaboration takes many forms at ‘Big Blue,’ including countless Intranet 2.0 tools such as thousands of wikis, blogs and the increasing popular Beehive. Beehive is akin to Facebook, but slightly different. It is an employee social networking site. Like Facebook, Beehive users (appropriately called bees) can: create a profile post pictures post updates [...]