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Stigmergic systems SEO projectFuture projectsTechnical notesReferencesKemplelen Box Site map [Top] Copyright Peter Small 1995 - 2008 What Screenshots Can't Tell You: How NCR Made NNG's Best Intranets I took a peek at the article last week reporting on the NNG 10 best intranets of 2012 with some curiosity regarding what would be reported and I found something that was infinitely more interesting to me in the user comments. You Can't Judge an Intranet by its Homepage Dreissen writes: “Thanks for sharing, but may we see some screenshots of those intranets to understand why they won?!” How to build a successful intranet By William Amurgis Is your organization’s intranet an unqualified success? If so, congratulations – you’re likely in the minority. For the rest of us, we may often see glimpses of success, but continue to confront obstacles, or take missteps, or simply lose our way. I’ve worked on intranets since before the term was even coined (around 1995), and I’ve made plenty of mistakes.
10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical If content is the heart of every website publication, then navigation is its brain and a fundamental pillar of information architecture design. When dealing with large quantities of content, the critical importance of navigation cannot be overestimated. Content that can’t be found can’t be read. World population World population estimates from 1800 to 2100, based on "high", "medium" and "low" United Nations projections in 2010 (colored red, orange and green) and US Census Bureau historical estimates (in black). Actual recorded population figures are colored in blue. According to the highest estimate, the world population may rise to 16 billion by 2100; according to the lowest estimate, it may decline to 6 billion. The world population is the total number of living humans on Earth.
My Beautiful Intranet 2011 You can browse through the entries below, or read why the Government of British Columbia were announced winners. Another competition, My Beautiful Intranet (Goes Social) took place early in 2013. As the name suggests, this focused on social intranets. See the entries. Improve Intranet Tools “Thanks to the use of SnapComms tools, we have increased use of our intranet by more than 40% in the first year.” 10 Intranet Tips and Low Cost Tools: Intranet Tip 1 - Desktop Notifications Stickynotes for UX, web and mobile designers - UX stickynotes What are they? UX stickynotes help you design your web and mobile projects on paper – the quickest, easiest and most flexible design tool of them all. Shape your ideas around the pre-printed layouts and stick them wherever you want without any fuss. Perfect for creating wireframes, sketches, page flows and site architecture or just doodling.
gource visualisation tool Gource is a software version control visualization tool. See more of Gource in action on the Videos page. Introduction Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves.
How ‘The Garden’ grew into an award-winning intranet for ScottsMiracle-Gro By Kelly Kass As the name of its successful intranet (The Garden) implies, ScottsMiracle-Gro is the world’s largest marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products. It’s headquartered in Marysville, Ohio and has 8,000 employees. Why most online communities are failures By John Hagel and John Seely Brown, guest contributors FORTUNE -- As anyone who has started their own blog certainly knows, it takes all of an hour (if that) to create your very own space to share your most brilliant ponderings for the entire world to see. But when it comes to building a space online that people want to visit regularly and contribute to, well, most of us never get there, and for good reason.
Users Decide First; Move Second By Erik Ojakaar Originally published: Oct 25, 2001 Designers use interactive design elements, such as fly outs, rollovers, and dropdowns, to conserve space, make the screen less cluttered, and enhance the users' experience. Visualising Subversion with Gource Over the weekend I stumbled across a video link, released (I assume) by Flickr. The video is a visualisation of the last 7 years of commits into the Flickr Subversion repository. Wow, there’s a lot of work been done to Flickr over the past 7 years! What’s even more interesting is you can easily create the same type of visualisation with your own project using an open-source project called Gource.
A Definitive Guide to Social Intranet Strategy A social intranet is only one part technology, and two parts people and process. In fact, technology is only an enabler, and may only be worth 20% of the total value of an intranet.Truth be told, a successful social intranet is remarkably similar to an intranet. Not unlike like the high-performance sports car to the family car, a high-performance social intranet resembles the corporate, family intranet at first glance… but only when it’s not performing to expectations. A flourishing social intranet needs many of the requisites of a regular, run-of-the-mill intranet: well-defined governance and process(es), highly engaged people, and highly functional technology. You’ve probably figured out by now that the technology behind a wiki, or a blog pales compared to most web content management systems… and can’t carry the dirty laundry of a killer portal or enterprise content management solution.