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 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:20:01 +0100 PHP5 Over the last few years two consultants have transformed our understanding of intranets. I'd first like to highlight the work of Jane McConnell, who through her Global Intranet Trends survey and report aggregates information on individual intranets to give managers a sense of how intranet development is proceeding world-wide, what are the emerging issues in enhancing the value of an intranet and what solutions are others finding to common problems of quality, relevance, impact and governance. Now is your chance to Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:50:55 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=61 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=61 Just as I was thinking of packing up for the day Google announced the launch of the Google 6.0 Appliance. The focus of the announcement was very much on the scalability of the new version, with the capability of searching billions of documents. Much is made of the small hardware footprint of the appliance, as if this is a primary consideration in the selection process. Indeed it seemed to me that the product data sheet was an exercise in how many times the marketing staff could include the word scale in a seven-page pdf Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:52:52 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=60 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=60 This blog sets out to list what I regard as a core set of resources for anyone involved in enterprise search.  I am sure that there are other resources that I have omitted and if you know of any please send me an email Thu, 28 May 2009 14:55:10 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=59 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=59 There cannot be many intranet managers who have not benefited from the wealth of insight and encouragement that James Robertson offers through the reports and papers published by his company, and through his Column Two blog. The volume of content that he and his colleagues have created is vast (over two hundred articles on the web site alone) to the extent that intranet teams almost need a Step Two Librarian to manage it. Now James, together with his colleagues, has written Tue, 19 May 2009 14:07:56 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=58 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=58 Thanks to the video production skills of Line Berg Ostergaard, Communication Channel Manager, Nycomed International Management GmbH, Switzerland there is now a movie of JBoye Philadelphia 09. She videoed many of the speakers and delegates talking about what they thought were the highlights of the event and then edited them together with great skill. It's only a four minute video on You Tube but it gives you both an indication of why Nycomed won an Mon, 18 May 2009 20:53:58 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=57 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=57 The annual Enterprise Search Summit in New York continues to deliver excellent papers and intruiging conversations. The former are public, the latter usually very private. But then enterprise search is a very private business. To the best of my knowledge no one actually demonstrated a live search application in the conference, which is rather like going to a Magic Summit where the magicians talk about their illusions but never actually perform them. However you can learn a lot even from the description, and this year there were some outstanding papers Thu, 14 May 2009 17:51:35 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=56 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=56 Over the last few years JBoye has established its Aarhus conference as an invaluable meeting point for delegates with diverse interests in making the best possible use of web technologies. The model works well, with multiple parallel tracks, good speakers and excellent opportunities to network with delegates and sponsors. Taking this model to the USA in the middle of an economic recession was a brave move but it worked out well, and over a hundred delegates at Sun, 10 May 2009 19:43:20 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=55 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=55 This is an updated version of the list published on 22 January 2009 with some additional details added. Please let me know if there are any errors or omissions. In addition J.Boye are running a number of events for members of its Communities of Practice. April 16-17 Intranet Insider World Tour, New York An innovative approach to presenting case studies of intranets from Communitelligence, as well as presentations on intranet topics and some round tables Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:12:58 +0100 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=54 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=54 I spent much of last week taking part in the IntraTeam Conference in Copenhagen. It was an exceptionally good conference, with excellent speakers, a well-planned programme, stimulating conversations and superb food. What more can you ask? What marks this conference out as being different is that a signficiant number of the delegates were members of the communities of practice that IntraTeam run in Denmark, and so the event was run by a company who really understand the intranet business and who clearly listens to members of the CoPs when developing the conference programme Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:43:47 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=53 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=53 The report that Stephen Arnold and I wrote last year is now available in both print and download versions, so please help our royalty payments by purchasing a copy from the Galatea web site. Janus Boye has persuaded us to come out of hiding and run a workshop based on the report, and this will take place in central London on 21-22 April. We will be running the event in a highly interactive style so there will be plenty of opportunities to table your specific queries, as well as some case studies Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:41:03 +0000 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=52 http://www.intranetfocus.com/blog/entry.php?entry=52