The Workplace Blog

Tracy Cohen, a user experience lead at Avenue A | Razorfish spoke on Social Networking & Collaborative Spaces at the Connect & Collaborate Conference held in New York on September 27th-28th. She discussed Peers, an in-house social network that enables collaboration and knowledge sharing between consultants at the company on both a professional and social level. Forrester Analyst Charlene Li has praised Peers as an innovative construct and a “unique marketplace for ideas.”

Excellence in project management is essential, but PMOs can do as much harm as good. Read CIO Magazine’s article which examines the fundamentals and scope a proper role for a PMO.

Read the Intranets that Fit (PDF) white paper which discusses how intranets mature in large organizations. The white paper introduces a maturity cycle that can be used to evaluate your own intranet.

Enterprise wiki vendor SocialText has decided to open the code to its applications in a move that will help promote the wiki platform and aid SocialText in the development of its products. Ezra Goodnoe has written a thoughtful article on how wikis can be used in businesses. The article also compares wikis to traditional content management systems. Read the article at Information Week.

Paul Chin has written an article about intranets that have too much content. He believes that it is the content management system’s job to help you determine what content should be archived and how. Read the full article at intranet Journal.

Training has become more important as intranets evolve to include new content, collaboration, and office productivity applications.

Subscribe to Intranets Today to read Shiv Singh’s article on Intranet Training and why it is important.