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...

Discovering your user voice

It’s always harder to invest time and resource upfront when you really just want to cut to the chase. The fun stuff. The creative challenge. Do we really have to sit around and listen to people first? For communicators and designers working on intranets, that...

Create great news in your SharePoint intranet

As the debate about intranet news rages on, I thought I’d enter the fray with a new post for SharePoint Pro Magazine: Create great news in your SharePoint intranet If you balance curated news with social streams, I think you’ll meet user needs optimally....

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...