Intranet News & Articles

Your Next Move: Planning Intranet Upgrades

Before investing time and money in all manner of retrofits and upgrades, you must determine whether you're doing it because of a real need for improvement or whether you've simply fallen prey to rampant consumerism fueled by an unwavering onslaught of marketing glitz. An intranet, because it's so scalable, can too easily become a victim of this type of chronic upgrading. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Managing the Keys to Your Intranet

We need to realize that for all the technological security mechanisms we put into place to protect our intranets and their content, there are still human beings on the other side who must manage all of it. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Top 10 Ways to Lose Your Intranet Users

Avoiding these 10 common intranet pitfalls will go a long way toward extending not only the life of your intranet, but also your user community's trust and faith in the system, says Paul Chin. (read more at Intranet Journal)

The Keys to Maintaining Intranet Integrity, Part 2

The procedures and mechanisms you put into place to ensure intranet integrity must focus more on prevention than reaction. If you plan for all foreseeable contingencies, your actions will be well-orchestrated. (read more at Intranet Journal)

The Keys to Maintaining Intranet Integrity, Part 1

PWhat type of architecture is right for your intranet? There are dozens of possibilities, from a single server to a whole array of servers. Where and how you house your various intranet components is dependent upon your budget, your resources, and the importance of intranet availability. (read more at Intranet Journal)

The ABCs of Intranet Learning

Putting a new system into a production environment without providing your users with training is like washing a marble hallway without putting down a "wet floor" sign; some will get through it unscathed, some will stumble, and some will pay unwitting homage to Buster Keaton and land flat on their faces. Training will help to increase overall intranet usage across the entire spectrum of your corporate user community. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Selling Old-School Management on an Intranet

Old-schoolers delay the inevitable by finding ways around the technology, bending the tools to their will in order to avoid having to learn and adapt to new methods. Rather than adapting themselves to the improved processes, they warp the processes and tools to adapt to them. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Recipe for Successful Requirements

Every food recipe consists of a number of ingredients that must be included in the correct proportion and order for the end result to end up tasting like it should. The same holds true for an intranet application to end up working as expected. (read more at Intranet Journal)

The River Wild: The Influence of Corporate Culture on Intranets

One of the fundamental rules of intranet design is to develop a system to fit the needs of the audience, but we rarely consider how the audience itself shapes the outcome of the intranet. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Intranet Standardization: All For One, and One For All

Your corporate intranet should act as a portal that enables users to access the various internal sub-sites. And as a portal, there needs to be an overall sense of unity. (read more at Intranet Journal)