09 September 2009

The New Intranet - Social Media Meets the Enterprise

by Marlon McMartin, MBA - Managing Director, Office Ability

Is it now time for social media to be adopted by the Enterprise and to become an integral part of the Company Intranet? It can be argued very convincingly that there is a great opportunity lost for businesses that do not embrace the Web 2.0 technologies that are an enormous part of our every day lives. Technology that has reshaped the way we network and communicate, but nonetheless is yet to be utilized by the vast majority of businesses.

15 August 2009

Company Intranets Keep Employees on the Same Page

Adapted from original article by Mie-Yun Lee

If you want to share a document company-wide, do you e-mail it to everyone? Perhaps you make dozens of paper copies instead, giving one to each employee and filing the extras away. Or maybe you save a master in one of the various shared directories on your company network and hope that people will be able to find it.

04 July 2009

Internet, Intranets and Extranets - What are all these nets?

By John Lefevre

While most people today are familiar with the internet, when it comes to the words intranet and extranet confusion still exists. Despite Wikipedia claiming the first intranets began appearing in the early 1990s, they were in fact in existence earlier than this – though in most basic form and without the sexy look and functionality available today.