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Shel Holtz
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While intranets generally may be stagnating, there are resources that can help intranet managers bring their networks to the levels we take for granted on the web. One recently-released resources comes from Melcrum Publishing, a book titled “Transforming Your Intranet,” isn’t cheap ($395 US), the value a company could accrue from paying attention to its advice makes it a bargain.

Kathleen Gilroy has released

The evolution of the World Wide Web over the last five years has been nothing short of astounding. Intranets, on the other hand, haven’t progressed an inch since, oh, say 2001. While the web has witnessed the wide-scale adoption of social networking and the early stages of true web-based applications (like Writely and AjaxWrite), the intranet of 2006 looks pretty much the…

I’ve worked on the implementation of several portals, but always from the content side, never the back-end technology. I don’t know what goes into the guts of a portal that makes it work, but I know it’s complex. Most portals cost about $1 million and take about a year to implement. Customization and personalization are the keys to a portal, particularly the selection of…

I had already been pondering the surge in popularity of online video when Steve Rubel wrote today about the “Big Bang” that occurred when Apple began selling TV series episodes and other video content through its iTunes store.

Steve asks if your marketing or PR program is Big-Bang-ready. I’m wondering more about intranets.

I have maintained for years that anything that succeeds on the web…

A lot has been made in the last couple days over Sun Microsystems President Jonathan Schwartz’s assertion that “intranets are going to die.” Schwartz, who made the remarks during a talk at Yahoo!‘s Syndicate conference in San Francisco, noted that blogs will replace them. His prediction comes shortly after Ross Mayfield told BusinessWeek blogger/podcaster/reporter Stephen Baker that wikis could replace intranets.

Schwartz is a hardcore blogger,…

There are all kinds of intranets. Good ones and bad ones. Intranets that are strictly communication vehicles with maybe a smattering of other content. Intranaets that are nothing more than static repositories of policies and handbooks. Others are mostly application-driven, loaded with tools like benefits enrollment, budget planning, expense reimbursement, and the like. Some are balkanized fiefdoms of departmental sites…

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