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Making your design suck less with bridging roles

The rise and fall of web design, and how fostering broader skill sets and adopting bridging roles can set things right.

Social Intranets and digital natives

One particular statistic from the Swedish internet use report for 2011 was how everyone in Sweden in the 16-25 age group uses social media. For a fair while we’ve been discussing the expectations of young employees in the workplace, but this statistic is about as big as a wake-up

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12 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 22-27, 2011)

For your reading pleasure this time, a collection of links (with summaries) including articles related to: web management, SEO, intranet, UX. Web management The web is critical. The web team is not ‎”According to a McKinsey report, From 2004 to 2009, the Internet’s contribution to GDP in mature countries

Analytics

14 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Weeks 10-12, 2011)

For your reading pleasure this week, a collection of links (and summaries) including articles related to: Social media, UX, intranets, SEO and web analytics. Social Ellos at the forefront of Nordic Digital e-commerce Jesper gets all excited about Ellos and how they are dragging their shopping experience into the future.

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Introduction to intranets

Earlier this week a project to write a book called an Introduction to intranets was launched. I’m pleased and excited to be part of the project. Despite lots of blogs and literature being available about intranets, a number of the printed books are a quite old or aimed at

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20 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 3-5, 2011)

This edition’s collection of links includes posts related to: Eye tracking and user testing, Intranets, UX, usability and web strategy, SEO, and web development. User experience, usability & web strategy Good usability makes a website This one quote from the article pretty much says enough: “Usability testing is no

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Managing disruptive collaboration tools

Yammer has a wonderfully disruptive marketing strategy – anyone with an email address can sign up and become part of the network for that email domain. No IT procurement process, no buy-in, no permission from anyone – you just get on with it and start collaborating. Collaboration behind your back A lot

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11 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 50-52, 2010)

Generations 2010: What different generations do online Useful chart from Pew Internet showing how the spread of Internet activities varies across six different generations. One thing I find particularly interesting (mainly as I wrote about this in my december newsletter) is how virtual worlds are the least common activity across

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9 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 39-41, 2010)

Implementing Yammer within Your Organization Using Twitter Best Practices The featured tool in this article is Yammer, but the tactics and principles described are valid for whatever intranet collaboration tool you are rolling out. Three critical tactics according to Hanesbrands: Gain leadership support, Partner early with IT, Help employees use

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Yammer usage within Swedish organisations

There’s been an increasing interest in internal corporate communications tool Yammer, but in more recent times that interest has jumped. Having noticed this spike in interest Per Axbom decided to investigate. Per created a survey using Wufoo and asked people in his network who used Yammer to take a

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Tweets from IntraTeam Event Stockholm 2010

On October 5th and 6th 2010 IntraTeam held their first intranet conference in Stockholm. It was a great event and the most international intranet conference held so far in Sweden. Day one featured Presentations in English, day two in Swedish – but almost all of the tweets from both days were

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What is Employee Generated Content?

Here is my definition of Employee Generated Content, as well as brief explanation of how it differs from user generated content (UGC) and social content (social media). What is it? Employee Generated Content (EGC) is a variant of User Generated Content (UGC). Both refer to material produced by the users

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Microblogging and bullying in the work-place

The concept of choosing to follow someone is very familiar to those of us active on twitter. As is the concept of not following someone. In small organisations, my experience has shown that normally everyone would follow everyone. This is largely because small organisations are likely to be cohesive as

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6 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 34, 2010)

The business case for social intranets To quote Oscar: “Most people will come to understand that a social intranet is not just about adding features such as blogs, wikis, activity feeds & micro-blogging on top of a traditional intranet; it’s about rethinking the purpose of intranets with the intention

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7 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 32-33, 2010)

Why Your Web Developer and SEO Keep Asking You For Content Anyone involved in creating or managing a website has had “the content problem”. This excellent article lists all the reasons why we should keep on nagging for that content to appear as early in the process as possible. Reductionism

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10 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 29-31, 2010)

BBC News website’s content management and publishing systems The BBC Internet blog often produces some really good in-depth insights into how things work at the BBC. This time, in connection with the recent redesign of BBC News, they take a look at web management, web standards & their in-house

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10 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 21-22, 2010)

The need for speed on the Web “Customers are highly highly impatient” – Page loading times aren’t just an search engine optimisaton factor, people know what they want, and they give your page very little time to deliver it before moving on… Efficiently Rendering CSS The art of optimising page

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5 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 18, 2010)

How do you write good copy for your website? By an interesting co-incidence Econsultancy publish this article the same week as I publish my SEO Checklist for content writers. It’s got some points, but to be honest I think it’s way too technical to be really useful for

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5 Articles worth reading… (Spotted: Week 17, 2010)

Twitteranvändning i Sverige There has been constant speculation about how many active Twitter users there are here in Sweden. This article (in Swedish) makes public some research that Microsoft has commissioned. That survey states that 8% of Swedes have used Twitter. 5% use twitter monthly, 3% user it Weekly. Clearly

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6 Articles worth reading... (Spotted: Week 15, 2010)

Collaboration Is More Important Than Ever – 3 Barriers To Adoption An article looking at some significant reasons that prevent people from using collaboration tools to collaborate effectively within an organisation. Some further comments on the Beantin facebook page. Web customers care about tasks, not goals It’s all task based.

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For your reading pleasure... (week 9, 2010)

5 intranet trends for business managers in 2010 Janus lists 5 trends: metrics, mobility, social, task-based, usability. The same 5 equally apply to any web-based activity, not just intranets… Is collaboration enough to connect-the-dots? Some good solid advice on what components are needed to make collaboration capable of “joining the

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For your reading pleasure (week 1, 2010)

Why Enterprise Microblogging Has More Practical Use for Everyday People Than Twitter Took the time to revisit this post which was published in December. Enterprise Microblogging can be a valuable internal communication and knowledge sharing resource – as long as your company culture is ready for it – irrespective of company size