Intranet Matters

As always (sorry as I am about this circumstance!), this is not a list of the latest news, but rather of information worth being read that I’ve come across over the last 2-3 weeks or so:

SharePoint as a Collaboration Tool: An Independent Evaluation
Evaluation of the product against his framework for collaboration (7 Pillars reference framework for evaluating collaborative tools)

Best Buy’s “Enterprise Twitter”
But so far, no large corporation has rolled out microsharing company-wide. Enter Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt, Best Buy’s Senior Managers for Social Technology, and better known as the guys who built Blue Shirt Nation

When to Use Which User Experience Research Methods
Modern day user experience research methods can now answer a wide range of questions. Knowing when to use each method can be understood by mapping them in 3 key dimensions and across typical product development phases.

Start here: intranets
Entry point for intranet teams, bringing together the key resources into a single location, giving quick access to the best practice thinking on intranets => in my opinion this is something like the State Library for Intranets - lots of fantastic stuff brought to you by Step Two!

Best-practice approach to SharePoint team spaces
There is also a need to put in place appropriate support and governance, if team spaces are to work well.

What intranet CMS’s can learn from wikis
It is, however, a good time to take a fresh look at how we manage and grow our intranets, and to learn lessons from the wider community

Should Knowledge Workers Have Enterprise 2.0 Ratings?
But what about measuring? It’s a technical no-brainer to measure how much each individual has contributed and to generate some kind of absolute or relative metric. Would doing so be helpful or harmful?

Cut costs by expanding your intranet
It may seem counter-intuitive to some, but I often advocate increasing intranet funding during cost cutting exercises as a lower cost channel for engaging staff and sharing information.

Intranet Innovations 2008
Scroll down for free Exec Summary PDF to this year’s innovation awards

The credit-crunch - financial mis-management or information mis-management?
The problems may well have as much to do with a failure of information management than with financial incompetence