Angie Cullen just listed five key features to consider when choosing a social intranet: Forum Collaboration Social Tagging and Ranking Document Storage & Collaboration Expertise Finder Knowledge Base or Wiki They all remind me of my own findings when asking my colleagues what they really need from our intranet, even though I focused less on… Continue reading Does the potential in social intranets lie in Personal Knowledge Management?
Category: Intranets
My Top 10 Tools for Learning
Here are my top 10 tools for learning, as asked by Jane Hart at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, and answered already by people such as Harold Jarche (feed), Clark Quinn (feed) and more. Twitter: Excellent tool for keeping updated on what people such as my mentors and more are up to. Very quickly I can interact with people… Continue reading My Top 10 Tools for Learning
What employees really need from our intranet
Following the advice from James Robertson (@s2djames) in his book “What every intranet team should know“, I have conducted interviews with 11 of my co-workers to find what they really need from our intranet. So, instead of asking them “Which features would you want?” resulting in answers like “a feature like Apple’s Genius”, we spoke… Continue reading What employees really need from our intranet
I Wish I had an Intranet Mentor – Oh, I do!
Working as the editor of an intranet can be rewarding, and it can be hard. Many times, I have wished that I had a mentor who could engage in conversations regularly, and guide me when building an excellent intranet in SharePoint 2012 from the ground up. Until I have this mentor by my side, I… Continue reading I Wish I had an Intranet Mentor – Oh, I do!
Diving into the TermStore for metadata in SharePoint
It is time to fill SharePoint’s TermStore with useful tags, so people can find the correct material. Luckily TechNet has created an intro to metadata and the TermStore. Now, all I need to do is engage in meta discussions about the meta information. Update: Metadata is now even more central to SharePoint 2013, and here… Continue reading Diving into the TermStore for metadata in SharePoint
Five Things I Learned When Migrating Our Intranet
When moving from our decade old intranet, to a modern platform, there have been many lessons. Here are five of them: 1. Being a Global Intranet Editor is a job closer to being an organizational psychologist, than being an engineer. Migration is far less about moving files, than it is about understanding a culture. People more seldom… Continue reading Five Things I Learned When Migrating Our Intranet