Taking your intranet profile to the next level

My most recent post for SharePoint Pro is about how to more fully leverage your intranet profile, even making it a robust expertise finding tool. The ability to find people we don’t know in our organizations by a skill or keyword is always in the top 5...

How to ID the Right Business Processes to Web Enable

This week’s post for SharePoint Pro Magazine is about How to ID the Right Business Processes to Web Enable It’s ironically timely given some of the sessions I’ve seen this week at Denver’s SharePoint Fest. There is a lot of talk about apps:...

Can a SharePoint intranet increase employee engagement?

I’ve talked about engagement within the context of the intranet before. In fact, I co-wrote a white paper on the topic and posted about that back in June (you can download the white paper from that post). SharePoint Pro Magazine asked me to cover the topic for...

Catching up on measuring social and embedding governance

This blog was down for a bit while we moved all our websites, blogs and email to a new host (sayonara #Machighway).  Now that we’re back up and running, I’ve got some catching up to do on two important topics. Measuring social First, measuring social....

How to design content for online use: write for how your users read

My most recent post for SharePoint Pro Magazine is about: How to design content for online use: write for how your SharePoint or intranet users read There are many things we can do to make content easier to consume onscreen. Some of these are more important than...

Getting from “Intranet” to “Digital Workplace”

More and more consultants and conference speakers are talking about the “digital workplace.” While it annoys me to add to our large volume of jargon, and in many ways we’ve already been working in a digital workplace for a long time, it’s...