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There's been a lot of talk about Gamification lately, and while I'm no expert, I'd like to take some time to explain why I just don't get it, why I don't think I ever will, and why I think the current treatment of the subject is overblown and heading into "trendy
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As intranets grow in complexity, the importance and challenges of setting up an intranet governance structure grows in line -- but the benefits will be seen in the long run.
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There's a lot of discussion about creating great customer experiences, but it's time we take some of the ideas and methodologies learned in that realm and apply them to creating a great employee experience, specifically, to the intranet. This piece is a follow up to my "Engaged, Informed Employees Get the Job Done." This
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When not trading barbs in Canadian and British slang on Twitter, Jed Cawthorne is busy evangelizing the truth about information management, enterprise content management and intranets to unbelievers. It's time you got to know Jed a little bit better, don't you think? An Interview with Jed Cawthorne CMSWire: What first brought you to the information management industry? Jed Cawthorne: A
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I am really not big on speculative, future prediction posts. There are too many factors in our highly complex world that can derail even the most well researched and thought out theories for how our industry could develop, so I am going to shy away from predictions per se.
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Yes, Virginia, there is life beyond SharePoint. This time last year I was working in an IT Strategy role and attending the SharePoint conference in Anaheim, while an Enterprise Architecture colleague from our ECM team was at the OpenText conference.
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There have been some great articles this month on CMSWire on the future direction for intranets, and how your organization might want to "re-think" or re-imagine its intranet. Subjects such as Information Architecture, the changing nature of work, and developing employee trust in your digital workplace have been covered.
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In last month's column I took a generic look at whether an organization could move its intranet to the cloud, lock stock and barrel. As ever, my conclusion was "maybe" as it very much depends on your organization and what exactly you want to do.
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A recent set of experiences at work has led me to ponder the question: can you move your intranet to the cloud ? The answer it would appear is that often given by consultants: "yes, but it depends!" So what does it depend on? Well, let's investigate some of
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The CMSWire theme for June is "What's working in social business in 2012 ?" I don't have enough knowledge to make any sweeping statements about what is or is not working, but I can deploy the standard consultants response: "it depends!" Whether or not social business is working for you
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Do you have a company issued Blackberry? Perhaps your iPhone or Android device is connected to work systems via a “Bring Your Own Device” (BYOD) program? Maybe you’re a real road warrior with a ruggedized laptop or a corridor warrior with an iPad, but the big question is -- why?
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Digital Asset Management is a specialist sub-set of Content Management, one which has developed along it's own evolutionary past.
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This month's theme for CMSWire is about taking the focus of Customer Experience Management (CXM) and applying it internally to the enterprise, particularly to Enterprise Information Management (EIM) environments.
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Have I mentioned recently how much I truly hate the term "social business"? Maybe hate is a bit strong, and it's really not the term, but the way it is used.
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