Don’t miss the boat!!!
on Aug 21, 2009The annual “Global Intranet Trends” survey closes in just a few days (10 to be exact).  If you run an intranet make sure you take the survey!  Oh, and by the way for doing the survey (took me less than an hour) you will be send a free...

Cheep recognition
on Aug 11, 2009 in involvement social media These days it seems like everyone is trying to save a dime and companies are obviously no different.  The problem is in corporate America, employees tend to get a little sore if they loose all the little recognition perks they have been so used...

Just finished the Global Intranet Survey…have you?
on Aug 11, 2009 in involvement survey If you are involved in your company’s intranet and have not yet taken Net Strategy JMC’s Global Intranet Survey 2009, you should.  Just head on over to http://netjmc.typepad.com/globally_local/2009/06/2009-global-lntranet-survey-goes-live-pa...

Run an intranet??? Take a survey!!!
on Jul 22, 2009Jane McConnell of netjmc.com is running an intranet survey through the end of August. For your effort, you will get a copy of the 2010 "Global Intranet Trends" report. That reminds me....I still need to take the survey...thanks for extending it Jan...

My Twitter Experiment
on Jun 5, 2009 in twitter No, Twitter is not really strictly intranet related. But everyone is doing it right?I have been seeing all kinds of websites talking about how to increase your business through Twitter. Some even suggesting you can get 17,000 followers in a month!

Intern Wanted!
on May 21, 2009Are you a college student working towards a 4 year degree in Computer Science or a related field? Do you live in the St Petersburg, FL area (or know someone that does)? Can you get credit from your school for an internship? Have a passion for usab...

Why are we afraid of employee comments?
on Feb 18, 2009 in involvement blogging I am currently working on an internal blogging package for my company. Besides the standard blog pieces, it contains some special communications features such as digest and on-demand emailing.I have been fighting for allowing employee's to comment o

Pooped for Performance Management
on Jan 2, 2009It's a new year and time for new projects!!! We have just completed our new Performance Management system and its up, running, and doing quite well.Our new system was all built from scratch using ASP.NET 2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server back-end. Th

Wiki Works - the workhorse of any social intranet
on Oct 26, 2008 in wiki involvement Blogs are cool, social bookmarking sites are neat, but I really think wikis are the big news in the intranet 2.0 space.At our company, we launched a wiki last fall (almost a year ago now...wow!) and it has mostly become the internal wikipedia. The w...

Building a better "Employee Chooser"
on Oct 21, 2008 in user experience UI I have been faced with a UI design problem on our Performance Management system that I am currently building.There is one area within the site where leaders have the ability to choose another employee within the company to request feedback for one of...