“It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead,” quips Miracle Max in the famed bedtime story-come-movie, The Princess Bride. “There’s a big difference between mostly dead, and all dead. Now, mostly dead: he’s slightly alive.” The enterprise portal industry is much like the supine Cary Elwes in the Princess Bride: mostly [...]

Portal or CMS? Social media or none? Commercial or open-source? What is the best technology for your intranet? Choosing the right technology for your intranet is difficult, to say the least. In fact, it can be downright daunting without help or prior experience doing it. There are thousands of solutions to choose from, and each [...]

1-     SharePoint will continue to dominate   All hail the king, SharePoint. SharePoint has become the single biggest, most pervasive intranet platform of all time (present in 50 – 60% of all medium to large-size organizations). While SharePoint is still minimally used for department and team level document sharing and collaboration, more organizations are looking [...]

(LAS VEGAS) Lest you be tingling with excitement about the potential enhancements to your less than spectacular content management system, there are two realities for SharePoint 2010: what is promised, and what is hoped for.   Those working with MOSS 2007 can be forgiven for the vacuous deflating sound from their proverbial balloons – those [...]

It comes up less frequently in 2009 then it first did when I formed North America's first intranet consulting firm (Prescient Digital Media) in early 2001, but the definition of an intranet is still debatable. Toby Ward's definition of an intranet (first committed to paper in 2001 in the Finding ROI white paper): A private [...]

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Like the content of your website or intranet, planning and governance is technology agnostic; whether its SharePoint or another portal or content management platform, the necessity for and the approach to governance is the same. Given its technology neutral status in the realm of website and intranet evolution this module on planning and governance is [...]

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) is becoming the dominant intranet technology platform with nearly half of all large to medium-size organizations using it (or the previous version) to power some or all of an intranet

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