Part of my interest in social media at the moment is related to how I’m encouraging its use within our agency. I’m very interested in hearing about what other agencies are doing. At work we have a team rolling out a community of practice using a wiki-based system, with an extranet to follow. I hope…
I heard some good reports from people who attended Web Directions Government back in May. For those of you, like me, who missed it, Web Directions South has made a number of the presentations and podcasts available online via their blog, Web Directions Government resources now online.
Last year my agency participated in the Global Intranet Survey for the first time. The report from the survey has proven very useful in our intranet planning and given me a number of ideas that we’ve been able to apply in the ongoing management of our intranet. The survey is on again this year, we’re…
I’ve seen a lot of hype about SharePoint, Microsoft’s solution for, well, just about anything related to online. The product has been promoted as a Information Management system, as a Web Content Management system (Web CMS), as a replacement for shared drives and file systems, as an enterprise search tool and even as a platform…
A big issue in government, as in the private sector, is the drain of experienced older people as they decide to change lifestyles. Dow has followed an interesting strategy of developing an alumni social network, which helps keep ex-employees – both retirees and others – linked into the organisation. This keep their experience on tap…
This post was triggered by a question post over at Strange Attractor, asking Why isn’t social software spreading like wildfire through business? This is a question I have considered as well, in the last year from a government perspective. It particularly puzzled me late last year when I made unsuccessful efforts to get a wiki…
It has felt a little like ‘Intranet Day‘ in the last few days as I’ve posted a number 0f times about intranet developments. It really was Intranet Day on 18-19 June – a global online event where intranet managers were able to discuss their intranet strategies and a number of large organisations such as the…
Microsoft is joining the race to add social networks to intranets. Computerworld has reported that Microsoft is prototyping a Face-book style tool for providing employees with feeds and updates about their colleagues. I’d expect this to be an extension of their SharePoint product, allowing them to leverage their customer base to defend again online-only alternatives,…
It’s an established fact that intranets (or internal networks) grow and live within your organisation’s firewall. Or is it? New approaches and technology are now challenging the concept that intranets must be stored within your organisation’s direct structure. For instance in Australian government there is Govdex. This wiki-based extranet system meets secret level Federal government…
What are the top priorities for your intranet? There’s a few interesting surprises in this quick poll by the organiser of the 2008 Global Intranet Strategies Survey, 3 surprises on the “relevancy list” for Intranet managers If you don’t currently participate in this survey I strongly recommend that you consider it for this year.
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