Yammer and the intranet beyond the firewall By Nic Price on 8 October 2008 — 1 min read One of the hats I wear is Content Producer for Intranets Live, a subscription-based intranet media channel, with a monthly two-hour online show starting on 4 November. In the first show we’ll be interviewing David Sacks, CEO of microblogging service Yammer, winner of the TechCrunch50 award last month. Yammer is designed to provide a secure... More
Enterprising times – a case for search best bets By Nic Price on 2 October 2008 — 2 mins read Reading the e-Consultancy interview with Lou Rosenfeld on the importance of site search analytics, I was reminded of when I was product manager of intranet (or enterprise) search at the BBC. It was back in 2002. People complained that search was broken, but we had neither quantitative nor qualitative data to analyse. After consulting with... More
IBF24 By Nic Price on 1 February 2008 — 1 min read Wearing my IBF hat, I’m involved in setting up and running a 24 hour online event in June this year. It’s called IBF 24 and is being designed as an online conference focusing on intranet innovation. Starting at 11am GMT on June 18th, the plan is to follow the sun, so there are three consecutive... More
Following mentions of “intranet” on twitter By Nic Price on 5 January 2008 — 1 min read As mentioned in a previous post, you can ask twitter to text message or instant message you whenever any term you’re interested in is mentioned in a tweet. As well as tracking East Dulwich, I’ve been tracking a few others including “intranet” It makes for some pretty interesting reading but was hard to share online... More
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
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
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