Intranet statistics

So your employees want an intranet?????? Yeah right.

Statistics, findings and highlights from the Intranet Insider World Tour in New York City (April 17, 2009).

· 80% believe intranet navigation needs improvement
· 50% don't actually use their intranet on a daily basis
· 50% find search ineffective

Employees use on the intranet:
· employee phone directory
· cafeteria menu
· expense report
· pay stub

Employees use outside of work:
· 75% use Facebook
· 75% use LinkedIn
· 45% use YouTube
· 35% use Wikis
· 32% use Blogs

Intranet 2.0 used at work:

· Collaboration 34%
· Blogs 31%
· Customization 31%

What technologies are powering the intranet 2.0?

· 75% have SharePoint
· 3% have Notes Connections
· 14% have other

Intranet 2.0 Global Survey

· 42% have intranet blogs (10% enterprise deployment); 10% have no plans or interest
· 47% have intranet wikis (16% enterprise deployment); 10% have no plans or interest
· 23% have intranet podcasts (5% enterprise deployment); 29% have no plans or interest
· 15% have intranet social networking (5% enterprise use); 21% have no plans or interest
· 20% have intranet content tagging (9% enterprise use); 23% have no plans or interest
· 35% have intranet RSS (12% enterprise use); 11% have no plans or interest
· 15% have intranet social networking (5% enterprise use); 21% have no plans or interest
· 48% have intranet discussion forums (19% enterprise use); 9% have no plans or interest
· 49% have intranet instant messaging (29% enterprise use); 18% have no plans or interest
· 7% have intranet mashups (4% enterprise use); 43% have no plans or interest
· 47% of organizations using SharePoint for Intranet 2.0 tools

Intranet ROI – cost savings attributed to IKEA intranet

· Paper cost savings = $192,000
· Streamlining processes / Self-serve travel process saves $4,590
· Modernizing communication technologies video conf to WebEx = $90,000
· Self-service hr = $219,000

Con Edison intranet survey

· 3054 completed surveys (55% management; 45% union)
· 90% say company communications are somewhat or very helpful/informative
· Preferred communications channels are:
1. email
2. intranet
3. elevator screens
4. hard copy (print)
· 54% have seen CE eye (employee video channel; employee stories are most popular)
· Most popular video: “To Catch a Thief in Brooklyn!” (documenting how a Con Edison nabbed a cable thief in a Brooklyn sewer – including a physical wrestle, chase & scuffle!)

How a company treats its employees is tantamount in influencing the level of trust amongst its customers.

When you think of good and responsible companies how important is each of the following factors to the overall reputation of the company? (4475 people – 25-64 years of age)

· Offers high quality products & services - 94%
· Is a company that treats its employees well - 93%

5 Trends for Intranet Innovation:
· Attention Management – separating signal from noise
· Openess – cultivating transparency, sharing, and flatness
· Networks of Knowledge – graphing known and unknown connections
· Ecosystem Efficiency – orienting around business processes
· Back is the New Front (Office) – data and infrastructure drives innovation

Office 2007 SP2 now out

link Speed increase on Outlook with cache mode enabled, and none of the dreaded rebuild messages ..

Apart from that, nothing noticeable!!

Excel Training Workshop - Presented by Jet Reports

For those who attended the webinar last week.

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· Relative Cell Referencing
· Data Validation
· IF Statements
· Date Formatting and more…

As an added value- the workshop also includes interactive exercises for attendees and practice materials to utilize on your own.

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EXCEL TRAINING WORKSHOP
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More SharePoint Designer and workflow

As a continuation on from this post - link

This blog post maybe of interest. link

Gp Data To SharePoint Presentation

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So this is what happens when you call a call center

SharePoint Designer for workflow…….Oh really.

SharePoint Designer is free and does have its place for workflow, but there are some inherent limits with the product, such as:

-Workflow design history: No version control in different versions of a deployed workflow. Only the latest version on the server.
-Deployment: The workflow has to re build the entire workflow, from a dev, test, live environment. This is roles, actions
-Can only work with information in a site, not across a site collection. The following cannot be done:
-Archiving items to the archive site collection (Another site collection)
-Grabbing information on another site or farm
-Creation functionality. Can’t create a list\ library\team site. This is a design action, not content creation.
-The flow is sequential, therefore you can’t go back a step in the process.
-No automatic escalation process if there’s no response.
-No back up approvers
-No Parent / Child processing, share of information between processes. A workflow can’t kick off another process.

It's still a great product, however, and this post is more of an FYI.

For further information on workflow with SharePoint Designer, this free webinar maybe useful. Link

The 10 greatest flops in computer history

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They were way ahead of their time and could have advanced the power of mass home computing by years. But these revolutionary concepts became the biggest failures in digital history.

I didn’t realize Steve Jobs had so many ‘not so good ideas’. In some ways I’m surprised Apple asked him back, given his track record!!!!

I agree Microsoft Windows ME, was problematic. It’s plug and play was nice idea.

They did forget: HP OmliBook- A cut down version on a PC, with no hard drive.

Project Management 2.0 webinar- slide

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SharePoint Designer 2007, is now free

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This is MS's replacement to FrontPage.

Firefox 3.0 ekes ahead of Internet Explorer 7 in Europe

Link The Register.

Wow. I'm noticing this with clients...folks are using Firefox more an IE. No one uses Chrome. At last a Google product that hasn't taken the market by storm....:)

The stats on my blog, is that IE, commands a 70% market share.

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