Intranet 2.0 is a label used loosely to describe the application and adoption of Web 2.0 or social media technology behind the corporate firewall. In short, it’s Web 2.0 but on the corporate intranet. The intranet 2.0 label has largely faded to black, and has been replaced by the more fashionable label, the social intranet. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A team of more than 40 IBM consultants have undertaken a massive redesign of IBM’s web properties: a galactic redesign that includes both the external website and internal intranet. The core objective: a Single design system that converges the intranet (W3) and Internet standards, incorporates reusable design patterns and evolves the design system through collaboration. [...]

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 [...]

“SharePoint provides enough business value to outweigh the hassles,” states the latest Forrester report on SharePoint 2010 (SharePoint Adoption, 2011) which reads less like an analysis and more akin to an ad for Microsoft. I truly question Forrester’s impartiality versus their eagerness to please the mother ship. However, the latter half of the report provides [...]

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 [...]