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Intranet has become a dirty word in the technology world, but that won’t be the case much longer.
Changes are brewing for intranets, and for once it isn’t only at the enterprise level.
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I first wrote about the convergence of intranets, extranets and websites in 2001. The concept was pioneered by a select few trailblazers who were merging the technology and user experience of various online properties into a single experience.
Nearly 20 years later, the concept is still foreign to most enterprises.
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They say any publicity is good publicity. So with that in mind, thank you Seth G … thanks for citing my blog post.
I understand that this is a little friendly debate between Seths (perhaps Seth Maislin can chime in). And I know you are being provocative.
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I got a sinking feeling when I read a recent article entitled Why the Timing is Right for Knowledge Management Portals.
"Been there, done that" — a reaction both to the idea of resurrecting the failed portal concept and to the thought that respectable folks still see knowledge as manageable,
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Everything you do to market to, sell and support a customer requires a different application, each with its own content and data.
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It's easy to get despondent about the state of search. But then a company takes a fresh approach, and it gives one hope. The example below from DNV-GL serves as a reminder that search can act as both an application and a platform.
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Liferay and Red Hat are collaborating on an open source portal that combines Liferay Portal and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).
The product is targeting a growing cadre of companies that want more open-source, enterprise grade portal options, the companies maintain.
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In the midst of all the Office 365 Groups questions and Windows updates, an interesting trend bubbled under the surface at Microsoft Ignite that remains to be answered: What’s the preferred way to build your intranet in the cloud? Microsoft won’t be answering that — it’s not in its model
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How do you determine the success (or otherwise) of your intranet? It’s the million dollar question and there are many ways to answer it.
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Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my intranet. Prepare to die. We turn today to the silver screen to see what lessons information management professionals might learn from a classic Hollywood comedy.
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Experiencing dèjá vu? If the title of this article sounds vaguely familiar, you would be right. Laurence Hart's recent post, “Forget Intranets, Give Me an ESN,” deserved a rebuttal. And here it is. Intranets Have Failed.
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Intranets held such promise in the early days of the Internet. Then they became the butt of many a joke in the enterprise. Q: Where does useful information go to die? A: Our intranet.
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Traditional intranets, dominated by top-down corporate communications, are seen as outdated, no longer fit for modern, networked organizations. ESNs, so their champions say, are the way of the future -- enabling conversation in a way that’s flexible and responsive, aligned with modern ways of doing business.
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Should I replace my intranet with an Enterprise Social Network? Internal communications departments have debated this question, as have ESN teams and intranet teams. Maybe they saw higher adoption and engagement on their ESN platform, or read success stories from their peers.
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