“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

SharePoint offers so many services, so many bells and whistles, it is a mile wide… but only an inch deep (possibly a foot deep). SharePoint is such an effective, all-encompassing, basic solution for so many challenges and opportunities that the bulk of the services, without expensive customization, leave much to be desired – the basics [...]

Last year at this time, I first defined “social intranet” in a white paper,  The Social Intranet: An intranet that features multiple social media tools for most or all employees to use as collaboration vehicles for sharing knowledge with other employees. A social intranet may feature blogs, wikis, discussion forums, social networking, or a combination [...]

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 [...]

It used to be so difficult to find and read quality intranet case studies. Although, long detailed case studies with screenshots are hard to come by, many organizations are opening the hood to allow the outside world a peak at their intranet. Here are a few good intranet case studies from the past few weeks: [...]