I ditched a lot of classes in middle high school. In retrospect, it was a  dumb move. Learning the error of my ways, I cleaned-up my act later in grade 11 and was highly attentive in the critical final year, grade 12. I was a kid, naive and a little stupid, but not so stupid [...]

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 [...]

To be successful on the intranet, social media (intranet 2.0) cannot work in isolation; successful social computing requires effective integration and change management. In the early days of social computing on the IBM intranet Big Blue built their own standalone applications – Dogear, Fringe, Beehive, and many others. While some like Beehive, a social networking [...]

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 [...]

Hey, why reinvent the wheel when you can cherry-pick from the very best? Here are the full slides and screenshot examples from my recent webinar, Learning from the very best websites. Learning from the Best of-the-Best Websites march2011 View more presentations from Prescient Digital Media Also read: Creating a Business Case for a better website [...]

Content management software (CMS) is a gigantic business. TechNavio’s analysts forecast that the global Enterprise Content Management (ECM) will reach $9.6 Billion in 2014. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is increased adoption of ECM in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Enterprise Content Management market has also been witnessing need [...]

No one said it was going to be easy. The intranet is not a website. On an intranet, design is a secondary consideration – unless it’s bad and then you’ll learn how important it really is. Oh, the whining about the design… at your organization, it probably rivals the whining about the search engine. Yes, [...]