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 [...]

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 [...]

There’s a reason why YouTube is one of the most flocked-to websites on the planet (second or third in traffic only behind parent Google, depending on the measuring stick): people want video. They crave it. Are employees not users too? Sadly, given the allocated funding to the corporate website versus the corporate intranet, employees matter [...]

Social business has been one of the hottest, most over-used ‘social’ buzzwords since enterprise 2.0. Yet aside from the usual leaders such as Cisco, IBM and Verizon, and a handful of other exceptions,few businesses are true social businesses. And there are more social media consultants – or social business consultants – than there are Starbucks [...]

Social media continues its’ persistent march across the firewall and into the day-to-day lives of intranet users, but executives and employees alike are less than thrilled with the end results. In fact, the initial overall rating on internal employee-only social media (intranet 2.0) is middling at best. READ AND DOWNLOAD THE SOCIAL INTRANET WHITE PAPER [...]

More than one-quarter of all organizations with an intranet use a CMS to power their intranet; most CMS solutions are commercial, brand name solutions. Preliminary data from The Social Intranet Study (855 respondents) reveals that while portal solutions such as WebSphere and SharePoint (also called a “development platform”) power one-third of intranets, but pure breed [...]

Social media tools on the corporate intranet (intranet 2.0) became mainstream nearly two years ago.  Preliminary results from The Social Intranet Survey (open now, prepared by Prescient Digital Media and sponsored by IABC) show that about two-thirds of organizations have at least one social media tool on their intranet. Shockingly, there are some pundits that [...]

Social media is now present on just about every big and medium-size corporate intranet. Though most deployments are minimal, if not pure pilots, and are usually not done with much planning or change management. It’s no surprise then that most executives (senior management) still need to be sold the value of social media on the [...]

Luddites are frequently overused as consummate examples when contrasting technophobes of the past with those of today. I prefer more timely and recent comparisons than those textile artisans of the early 1800s because there there are more obvious and laughable, modern-day comparisons to today’s technophobes. Famed negotiator Herb Cohen went to work for GM in [...]