Essential intranet reading By Nic Price on 3 January 2008 — 2 mins read Are you involved in intranet (in its broadest possible definition) content, design, management, publishing, thinking, consultancy, evaluation or strategy? What’s on your reading list? I’ll kick off with my blog subscriptions tagged “intranet” in google reader (view posts/subscribe to this list): Column Two – James Robertson in Australia, who is also behind the Intranet Innovation... More
Facebook as intranet – healthy hype By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Bill Ives at FastForward blog writes about how the software company Serena has adopted Facebook as its corporate intranet. They’re using it to take their 800 global employees through a big change programme. They’ve created a few custom apps that staff can use in their private network on Facebook. Apparently it’s boosted staff morale. This... More
Dust to digital dust By Nic Price on 7 December 2007 — 1 min read Before the internet, dying was a simple business. What you said, wrote, created in your lifetime lived on in people’s memories, passed down the generations and turned to myth. And sometimes these had more tangible manifestations, in letters, books, works of art, buildings and of course children. Nowadays more and more of us have digital... More
Intranets. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. By Nic Price on 6 December 2007 — 1 min read Yesterday about thirty Intranetters (thanks to Andrew for pointing me towards the yahoo group) got together in central London. It was a really good event – a kind of intranets anonymous. Big thanks to Simon Hill and Rod McLean for their warts’n’all stand-up routines. It certainly seemed quite a cathartic experience for all involved. Intranutters.... More
links for 2007-11-29 By delicious on 29 November 2007 — 1 min read What the Google Intranet Looks Like Google inside. Via tracking “intranet” on Twitter. (tags: google intranet) More
The intranet: my web at work By Nic Price on 4 October 2007 — 1 min read It’s time to drag the intranet in to the twenty-first century. We need to think of the intranet as the digital workspace, or “my web at work.” As a worker I need access to all the tools and information I need to do my job. It’s becoming increasingly likely that not all of that lives... More
Intranet personalisation: good or bad? By Nic Price on 2 October 2007 — 1 min read If you have web apps like travel booking systems or services like discussion forums running on your intranet you already have personalisation. Whether it’s any good is down to how well it’s designed and presented and how it feels to use. For company intranet homepages I don’t think there’s any question that personalisation will become... More
Social media usage in the “enterprise” – some numbers By Nic Price on 6 June 2007 — 1 min read I get asked regularly – particularly by colleagues in the intranet/enterprise portal management world – how many people use the discussion forum, wikis and blogs which live on Gateway, the BBC’s intranet, which I manage. Below are some snapshot numbers I pulled together in May. To give some context, the monthly reach for Gateway is... More
Intranet vibes By Nic Price on 20 April 2007 — 1 min read I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again… Netvibes is quite simply everything an intranet (homepage) needs to be. As well as being a great way of managing all my stuff on the internet of course. More
IBF Live conference blog By Nic Price on 4 October 2006 — 1 min read David Lucas and Louise Ferguson are blogging the IBF Live conference at the Barbican Centre in London today and tomorrow. If you have an intranet check out what folk like Luke Tredinnick, James Robertson and Toby Ward are saying about where the world of intranets is at and where it’s heading… Oh and here’s a... More