Is it wrong to love your own intranet?
By Matt Wilson, www.ragan.com Without question, intranet managers should care about the communities they curate. But should they be in love with them? According to the Digital Workplace Group, they should. “There is something about how good an intranet is that is down to the personality of the person managing it,” Mark Morell, “the intranet…
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Time for a change of mindset with the UK government’s “Anywhere Working” program
November has seen a surge of activity in support of agile working practices from governments in the UK, Netherlands and the US. The momentum is clearly building. The technology to do it is available and the cost is not prohibitive. But mindsets still seem to be stuck in old ways of working.
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How can enterprise technology serve us – and not the other way around?
In her ground-breaking book “Alone Together” MIT Professor Sherry Turkle reveals the dark currents running through our supposedly wonderful “connected” lives. She talks about the addiction we have to always being online and accessible. Turkle came on IBF 24, our 24 hour intranet and digital workplace marathon recently and talked to me about how we…
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IBF and RBA Consulting co-host SharePoint Executive Discussion Group session in the Twin Cities
18th October 2011, New York Today the Digital Workplace Group announced that they had been invited by RBA Consulting to co-host a session of the SharePoint Executive Discussion Group in Minneapolis on 25th October. Andy Jankowski, IBF Global Director, will be facilitating a discussion on key trends in the enterprise social space. The SharePoint Executive…
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Never fall behind the Dalai Lama – technologically!
Yesterday I was fortunate to be part of a Digital Workplace panel at the 10th annual Strategic Communication Management Summit at a very plush hotel in London’s Mayfair with about 200 internal communications managers from a host of household name organizations. There was a talk from Fiona MacAllan, a very impressive woman from Nationwide Building…
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Pleio: ONE intranet platform for all Dutch government organizations
In 2008 the “Civil Servant 2.0” project started in the Netherlands. This is a Dutch platform and network for civil servants and civilians to discuss the effect that “web 2.0” has on government and the public sector and to support initiatives and experiments to improve the work of the Dutch government. What is Pleio?…
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Usability, aesthetics, functionality… and SharePoint!
CA Technologies (formerly Computer Associates) and EA (Electronic Arts) join us on IBF Live, Sept. 6, to show us their intranets! Maish Nichani from PebbleRoad in Singapore also stops by the studio to talk about his new, free, incredibly useful book: Manager’s guidebook on intranet redesign projects. This month, Paul Miller, our regular host, is on vacation, so…
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How consolidating intranets can serve your staff better
On this month’s IBF Live broadcast, three presenters showed off fragmented intranets they’re trying to bring together into one. By Matt Wilson, Guest Reporter from Ragan.com As Cleveland Clinic grew across the United States and opened facilities overseas, its intranet began to grow as well. At one point, the company was running six distinct intranets…
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Yammer Highlights Business Collaboration Beyond the Firewall
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwire) — 06/21/11 — Yammer, Inc. : , the leading enterprise social network, today featured some of the key ways customers are using its Communities product since the rollout in March last year to create secure groups for external collaboration. Traditionally, company intranets have precluded communication with important business contacts outside…
Blog Collaboration Intranets Just how much customization does SharePoint need?
What’s the key to winning one of the biggest intranet design competitions in the world? If you’re using Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration platform, one big factor is getting the software to work for your company’s culture, Amy Schade, director of user experience for the Nielsen Norman Group told Internet Benchmarking Forum subscribers on this month’s IBF…
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IBF24 in Australia brings SharePoint stories and innovation inspiration
The Australian hosted segment of IBF24 lasted only two hours, but packed a major punch of SharePoint intranet tours. This segment also highlighted Deloitte Digital’s major investment in innovation, which inspired IBF attendees from every continent, and included an interview with collaboration expert Michael Sampson. These two hours of intranet tours started off with a…
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New Research from IBF: Enterprise Mobility
For more than a decade, intranet applications have focused on providing employees working at their desks with access to corporate information. Many organisations have reported that the corporate intranet has made a significant impact on business performance. However, in most organisations there are many employees who spend some or all of their working day outside…
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