What makes your intranet valuable to users?

I’ve been reading with great interest a series of posts by Enterprise Strategies. They have conducted further research on data from the Worldwide Intranet Challenge with the intent to uncover which intranet attributes most impact a user’s perception of intranet value....

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 create SharePoint taxonomy governance

This week I’ve written a piece for SharePoint Pro Magazine about: How to create SharePoint taxonomy governance Ironically, I’m in Chicago this week to chair ALI’s Intranet and Digital Workplace Summit, where I know taxonomy will come up. It always...

Twitter versus LinkedIn, etc.

I’ve recently been lectured at by three different colleagues on the virtues of one particular social tool over another. One told me: “Twitter is the most important social media tool. It enables you to build influence across all social media. All I post on...