Intranet News & Articles

Building the Perfect Beast

If your intranet still consists of the news headlines and local weather along with a phone directory, you're falling behind the times. According to the Nielsen Norman Group's Ten Best Intranets of the Year, applications and information that make your intranet an essential part of the business process and workflow are the way to go. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Gathering Requirements: The Crux of the Matter

Perhaps the most important piece of any application development project is gathering requirements. So why do most intranet teams spend so little time focusing on developing the skills necessary to do this piece well? (read more at Intranet Journal)

Look Before You Leap: The Importance of an Intranet Pilot

Perhaps by past experience, we know that if we take that large leap of faith, one of two things will happen: you'll spit it across the table and commit a catastrophic social faux-pas or you'll gobble it down and ask for seconds. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Keeping Your Content Owners... Content

An intranet is one of those systems that doesn't end at rollout. There's no clear-cut separation between development and daily operation. In this respect, while many IT systems can be compared to a book with a definite beginning and end, an intranet is more like a newspaper that needs to be updated everyday. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Marketing and Promoting Your Intranet

Internet and intranet Web sites, although based on the same technology may appear outwardly similar, serve two very different purposes. And because of this, you need to use different approaches to promote each site. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Creating a Controlled Intranet Management Environment

Whether you manage to achieve the former or fall prey to the latter centers around your ability to create a controlled intranet management environment — and it doesn't necessarily require the investment in bloated software packages. There are a number of things you can do in-house to create an environment that allows for the flexibility of daily intranet management while preventing content owners from turning the system into a free-for-all. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Back to the Intranet Future: Planning For Tomorrow

The system you build today may not be the system you end up with tomorrow. This is entirely normal since intranets are directly affected by changes in business requirements, shifting priorities, and organizational restructuring. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Intranet Content Organization

There's a direct relationship between content organization and the ease with which intranet owners and users are able to navigate, locate, and manage vast stores of information. So, what's the best way to organize intranet content without the fear of being decapitated by a Black & Decker? (read more at Intranet Journal)

When is Web Content Management Right for an Intranet?

When it comes to software for maintaining your intranet, you can choose between a Web content manager and portal software. The right choice depends on exactly what type of intranet you want to build and what type of information you want available to your users. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Putting Paper on Your Intranet

Paper is still the world's most ubiquitous file type, and it's the way every organization did all of its business until just a few years ago. Is it time to get some of those legacy paper documents out of the file cabinets and onto the intranet? (read more at Intranet Journal)