by swilson | Jul 29, 2014 | Digital Workplace, Intranet and Portal, Intranet Governance, social technology, Usability
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...
by swilson | Jun 12, 2014 | Digital Workplace, Eloquor, Intranet and Portal, Usability
I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. When it comes to intranet navigation it’s about the topics. It’s not about the channel. I recall having a conversation with someone at Sprint PCS in 1997 about the home page of our new intranet. This...
by swilson | Feb 6, 2014 | Digital Workplace, Intranet and Portal, social technology, Usability
I just got off the phone with a company trying to reach a multi-generational employee base. They’ve had a large influx of new employees, nearly all of whom are millennials. These young people have been tossed into a conservative company with many soon-to-retire...
by swilson | Jun 7, 2012 | content migration, Eloquor, Intranet and Portal, Intranet Governance, Usability, Writing
Doing content migration well is time consuming and politically challenging. It’s tough to get people to step up and do what should be done to improve the user experience. Many will ask you why, why should we bother? Here’s an experience from one of our...
by swilson | Mar 13, 2012 | Intranet and Portal, Intranet Governance, Usability
We are supporting a client with intranet content migration. Like so many others, they are moving to SharePoint. In my limited time on the project I’ve worked with at least three other firms contracted to the project – many chefs involved. One point of...
by swilson | Jul 8, 2010 | Intranet and Portal, social technology, Usability
I was talking with a client last week about how they could enable different parts of the organization to provide RSS news feeds for their SharePoint portal. I said it was as simple as using the SharePoint blog template. That’s right, use the blog template, but...
Recent Comments