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Tag: toby ward
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Why Cisco Converged Its Intranet, Extranet and Website
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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Save Your Tears, Intranets Aren't Dying
With the digital workplace, are intranets obsolete? Not exactly. Find out what to expect from internet technology now and in the future.
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CMSWire's Top 10 Hits of 2013: Intranets
Pity the modern intranet. It's hard to define, underappreciated, suffers from an identity crisis and is often regarded as a source of frustration. It may even have grown too big to fail. But the death of the intranet has been greatly exaggerated.
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The SharePoint 2013 Intranet: Pros and Cons
SharePoint conquered the enterprise intranet. Although the conquest was never as bloody nor expensive as more invasive conquests, such as the Mongols under Genghis Khan, intranet citizens are not always thrilled by the new system and structure under Gates Khan.
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The Social Enterprise: The Truly Social Intranet
In a truly social enterprise, social requires more than just a Facebook page and Twitter account; you need to live and breathe social, inside and out. Anyone can Tweet, but creating a truly social intranet requires incredible commitment, change management and intelligent execution.
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The Slow Advance of Social Business
While the adoption of enterprise social media continues to grow, these tools continue to be poorly deployed and adopted, to the detriment of all. Executives are not happy, employees are not thrilled and social media owners and managers are frustrated with their internal social business efforts.
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The Poor State of Enterprise Social Business
Most companies are using social software internally, but the results to date are underwhelming, if not awful. Failing Grades Preliminary findings of the 2012 State of the Social Intranet Study find that both front-line employees and executives give their organization’s social media use a failing grade.
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Beware the Information Architecture Trap
IBM’s intranet information architecture is not good enough for you; nor is Microsoft’s.
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The Social Intranet: Tools, Trends and Who's Using it [INFOGRAPHIC]
This month we're talking about the company intranet -- its history, its culture, its future. Intranets have always been about enterprise collaboration, but now that they've evolved into platforms for enterprise social networking. The success of an intranet is not just determined by what it offers, but how employees use it.
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SharePoint 2013 and IBM's Lame Response
SharePoint was originally developed as a response, albeit a very weak one, to IBM’s Websphere software, which quickly became the leading enterprise portal solution. However, the mighty Microsoft, never one to rest on its laurels, decided to chase the leader by pouring billions of dollars into SharePoint and has arguably displaced
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Say 'No' to Expensive Intranets
You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a great intranet. SharePoint, WebSphere, Autonomy and other big-name, big-price solutions are rarely the right answer for most organizations.
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5 Tips for a Truly Social Business
Signs of social business are readily found on the internet today. But when considering social business inside the enterprise, the evidence isn't always as clear. A social business (referring to the common definition associated with enterprise technology, akin to enterprise 2.
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The Hub of Enterprise 2.0: The Social Intranet
Enterprise 2.0 was once a trendy designation, a moniker for corporate social media use that has been in decline in the past 18 months.
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Despite SharePoint's Success, The Social Intranet is Still Rare
Microsoft’s takeover of the corporate intranet has been rapid, and nearly overwhelming. Nearly two-thirds of all organizations (all except the very smallest) in the Western World use SharePoint, in some shape or form (according to multiple surveys).
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