Do bloggers have a responsibility to check their facts before publishing speculative content? Is the better to be first than be right? I would love to hear thoughts and opinions from other bloggers!
Your Blog Stinks! You Should Quit!
Are you really giving your blog the attention it deserves? It’s not going to become the resource you want it to be unless you commit to making it great. Here are some tips to help improve your blog in 2012!
Social Intranet Best Practices – Balancing Sensitive Information With Organizational Culture
Building a great Intranet environment is often about balance. Balancing acts like those between openness and security, corporate needs and individual desires, and the balance between content and culture often make for long meetings and tough decisions. Internal communicators and Intranet managers often have to determine how much to share and the right format in which to share it.
Is It Time For Your Intranet Annual Performance Review?
It never ceases to amaze me how few people trust their organizational intranets. A tool that was designed specifically for the purpose of helping employees do their job better and faster is often the joke of the water cooler. Yet organizations knowingly ignore the fact that employees don’t use or trust the information stored on their intranet.
Periodically, I have the great opportunity to sit in front of a group of employees and ask them about their intranet experiences. Often, it’s in anticipation of an intranet revamp, so the need for a “do-over” or an evolution has already been defined at some level. While the individual users and comments might be different, they usually go start with something like this:
Out With The Old…Rethinking Outdated Intranet Portal Models Part I – Introduction
Over the last few years, the social media boom has forced Intranet portal vendors to rethink some of their licensing models and expand their feature functionality. “Traditional” intranet portals that are simply presentations layers with a back-end content management system just don’t cut it anymore. Instead, organizations want their employees to generate peer-to-peer content using 2.0 functionality like blogs, wikis, and tagging instead of relying on one-way messages from the top.
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