http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/ Martin's perspectives on developments in intranets, extranets, content management, enterprise search and the information management industry en-gb Intranet Focus Ltd 2006 martin.white@intranetfocus.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:05 +0000 PHP5 The opening day of the IntraTeam Event 2010 (IE10) was full of interesting papers. The keynote was given by Jane McConnell with a virtuoso presentation based on the outcomes of the Global Intranet Trends report. It was indeed so good I failed to take notes, with Jane using music very effectively to underscore the way in which intranets have matured over the years. Following on from Jane was quite a challenge for Andrew Wright and St Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:23:04 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=82 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=82 Step Two Designs have announced that entries are now open for the Intranet Innovation Awards. As one of the judges I may be a little biased but over the last three years these awards have shown that, even when an intranet is in need of significant investment overall, intranet teams with a strong focus on user requirements can still deliver world-class solutions that have a measurable impact on the organisation. This year William Amurgis from AEP is a judge, joining Jane McConnell and me. William and his team won a Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:39:19 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=81 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=81 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:19:25 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=80 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=80 I sat in on a webinar today that BAInsight were hosting about SharePoint Search 2010 and FAST Search for SharePoint 2010. The presentation was given at an almost glacial speed by Jeff Fried, who is an enterprise search specialist at Microsoft. He said very little about SharePoint Search 2010 other than it would be much improved, which would not be difficult Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:25:05 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=79 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=79 A few years ago I was caught in a heavy rainstorm in Trafalguar Square, London and went into the National Gallery for shelter. In one of the galleries a curator was explaining the signficance about some of the elements of a painting by Caravaggio, and after a very short time I was seeing the picture in a totally different light. I had the same reaction after reading Search Patterns, a new book by Peter Morville and Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=78 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=78 The best source of detailed descriptions of high quality intranets is the series of Intranet Design Annuals from the Nielsen Norman Group which now go back a decade. In case it is of some value to readers I have listed in alphabetical order the organisations whose intranets have been included in the reports for 2007 - 2010. A review of the 2010 report was published here in January 2010 Advanced Micro Devices (USA) 2009Altran, (France) Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:59:13 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=77 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=77 For many years now the annual Intranet Design Annual report from the Nielsen Norman Group has set a very high standard in selecting 10 high-quality intranets from the many that were submitted.  Remarkably no European organisations made it to the final selection. The authors of the report are Amy Schade, Patty Caya, and Jakob Nielsen. The 10 best-designed intranets for 2010 are Enbridge, Inc.(Canada), GE (USA), Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA), Huron Consulting Group (USA), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), MITRE Corporation (USA), SCANA Corp. (USA), Trend Micro Inc. (Japan), URS Corp. (USA) and Wal-Mart Stores Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:02:17 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=76 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=76 At Swiss Intranet Summit in Zurich in November there was a discussion about who invented the word intranet, and when. In a presentation I was giving I had suggested that 2009 marked 20 years of intranets, as 1989 was the year that Lotus Notes was launched. Intranet was certainly in common use in mid-1994 when Netscape was set up by Jim Clark (Sun Microsystems) and Marc Andriessen, who was on the team that had developed the Mosaic browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:15:26 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=75 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=75 Each year I publish a list of the intranet-related conferences I am aware of, extending the scope of the list to some enterprise search events as well. If there are any that I have missed please email me at info@intranetfocus.com and I will revise this posting in due course. Usability Week 2010. January 25-29, Miami. Nielsen Norman Group Effective Intranet Management. 3-5 February, Sydney. Ark Group Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:58:53 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=74 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=74 Jane McConnell recently released the 2010 edition of the NetStrategy/JMC Global Intranet Trends report. This year the number of respondents has increased to nearly 300, and so provide a very sound foundation for analysis.  The 2010 report however steps up a gear from previous years, and moves quite significantly from analysis to synthesis, extending the value of the report beyond benchmarking into supporting the long-term strategic development essential to sustain intranet value to the organisation Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:41:53 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=73 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=73