A whopping 20 article post this time covering 4 weeks of articles spotted on my web-travels. Enjoy!
Perhaps it’s not SharePoint thats rubbish, but the way it was implemented in your organisation?
You get the chance to start from scratch - how would you build your company’s IT organisation? Throw IT into the cloud! A provocative but insightful article.
Last month the Global Intranet Trends report for this year was released. An executive summary and a some sample pages are included.
And once you’ve read the sample report from the Global Intranet Trends, why not compare and contrast its findings with these 10 predictions for 2011 from the Internet Benchmark Forum.
Carolyn gives a few quick tips on how you can build a better intranet and then finishes off the post with a fine list of Intranet Twitter people.
It’s a people centric world, individuals are catching up quicker than businesses. Employees are circumnavigating policies and restrictions in the way they work in order to get the job done. Michael gives some suggestions of how you can act from both customer and employee perspectives.
Kristian’s excellent series of posts continues with a look at how his organisation gathers and acts upon the search statistics that they gather on their intranet.
Insights into how the intranet and collaboration works at IBM. With over 400,000 employees IBM is like a small country. The sheer volume of content has forced IBM to embrace employee generated content and curation.
Selling web standards is no easy task. Clients need sites that are effective, but it’s our job as web professionals to bake web standards into our work - the client doesn’t really need to know the dirty details, just how (more) effective their website is.
A wiki filled with examples of user interfaces (web sites) that are designed to trick people. Forget Wikileaks, this is the naming and shaming you should be reading. Educating and enlightening.
Google Preview has the potential to make quite an impact in how people decide to click on a result in SERPs. Just now I suspect previews are not widely seen - but it’s wise to put a bit of thought into how your pages look in it - and an important web management task to check your preview thumbnails.
For anyone managing a website, you should read this FAQ. It pretty much explains everything you need to know about how Google collects, generates and uses the preview thumbnails. Many sites will need some tweaking - and right now i’m not talking about design tweaks, but under the hood stuff.
The PNG image format has become the de facto standard in web design. This is probably the best guide and explanation i’ve read about PNG.
Pseudo-classes? Child-selectors? Descendant Combinator? Ever struggled to remember what all these odd sounding CSS terms mean? well now you’ve got an easy to read reference to help you out.
There are numerous aspects and angles to managing an effective web site and web presence. In this post Dan details some example scenarios and describes some possible solutions.
A well researched and well written blog post by Andreas. My dumb-ass executive summary: Storytelling is da shit.
Johan drums a similar drum sometimes in his posts, but it’s a drum that’s worth beating. He has my permission to keep writing this kind of blog post until the majority of companies have heeded his advice.
As I highlighted in my blog post almost a year ago, the world-wide distribution of smartphone usage and Mobile OS usage is not uniform. The picture in India and Asia is vastly different to North America and Europe. It’s not all iPhone and Android y’know.
And finally… More “Will it eye track” fun from the Acuity ETS blog. This time they show off some eye tracking data gathered from abseiling down a hotel. Pointless fun - well, almost pointless - it was for charity…
Beantin
