Archives for Content management

Successful intranets provide meaningful support to their authoring communities

Use the five purposes to guide intranet technology selection

By: James Robertson Posted: August 28, 2014

Technology selection decisions need to be guided by the focus of the intranet being delivered.

Designing intranet role pages

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: November 27, 2013

Intranets serve many different audiences, and role-specific pages can help to meet these diverse needs.

Signposting within documents

By: Steve Byrne Posted: November 27, 2013

Finding the right document is only half the task: is the document structured in a useful way?

Beyond the standard content audit

By: Steve Byrne Posted: April 26, 2013

Using Excel in more powerful ways can bring further insights beyond a typical content audit

Content migration: start as you plan to continue

By: James Robertson Posted: April 26, 2013

When migrating to a new intranet, it’s important to establish the right authoring practices from the outset.

Structuring three types of content

By: James Robertson Posted: March 30, 2010

When designing and structuring intranets, it is useful to distinguish between core content, and business-unit specific information.

Clean up your Active Directory first!

By: James Robertson Posted: April 7, 2008

Before personalisation can be implemented, underlying LDAP or Active Directory implementations need to be cleaned up.

Avoid long-term strategies

By: James Robertson Posted: July 5, 2007

All too often, 18-24 month information management strategies fail to deliver benefits, but there is an alternative.

Automating three types of forms

By: James Robertson Posted: February 9, 2007

There is a ‘rule of thirds’ that can be used to categorise the main types of forms that exist on an intranet.