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Intranet Solutions with Lotus Notes and Domino
Chris Toohey introduces a new series that will be exploring ways to implement or expand a corporate intranet using IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino technologies. [more Collaboration; more Intranet Development]
Lotus Embraces Expanded Collaboration
IBM announced enhanced collaboration capabilities with audio, video, and VoIP as IBM executives defended their Lotus position at Lotusphere 2006. [more Collaboration]
Choosing Between a User Control or Web Part for SharePoint
Most people believe that you have to write Web Parts if you want to do work with SharePoint. This is only partially true. But in trying to decide whether to employ user controls or Web Parts, you must first understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. [more Microsoft SharePoint; more Intranet Development]
Support! Support! My Kingdom for Support!
Unlike software packages with a central focus, multi-discipline and multi-module corporate systems such as ERPs and intranets involve so many different groups that it makes it difficult for a centralized help desk to provide all the necessary answers to users' problems. [more Intranet Administration]
Google Adds a Little Leg Room to Mini
Google says its Google Mini is becoming a de facto standard for Web site search in one year's time. The company is celebrating with new capacity upgrades. [more Knowledge Management]
Five Questions to Consider Before Migrating to VoIP
Do you know what to expect from an enterprise-wide implementation of VoIP? Are you truly ready to take the leap? These questions will guide you to an informed answer. [more Administration]
Joyent Brings Collaboration in a Box
Joyent is an installed hardware and software combination that offers multiple collaboration features. [more Collaboration]
Tackling Site Management with Tacklebox 5.0
Tacklebox began as an intranet creation tool, and it's blossomed into a full-featured content management application complete with a hosted version. [more Knowledge Management]
PHP: Three Versions, One Promise
After 10 years of growth, 2006 looks to be a banner year for the open source language as its collaboration framework, partner ecosystem and the language itself are expected to grow and gain new users. [more Intranet Development]
Intranets Through Users' Eyes
End-users are not at the mercy of IT and have more say than they think, but perhaps they are unaware of the avenues available to them. To these users, Paul Chin offers five pieces of advice. [more Intranet Administration]
Are Intranets Dying?
Sun's president and COO Jonathan Schwartz said that intranets are dying at the hands of blogs and wikis. Are they dying, or are intranets evolving? Join the discussion. [more Intranet Discussion]
Lil' Orphan Intranet: Adopting an Ownerless System
What's IT to do if renegade developers were to leave an unofficial system at their doorstep and then disappear into the night, never to be seen again? [more Intranet Administration]
Supporting Key Business Decisions: Do You Make the Grade?
Information technology is crucial to business operations because it provides data, information, and analyses that drive critical business decisions. But just because the capabilities exist doesn't mean they can provide the support needed for decision making. [more Intranet Administration]
Embedding Apache Pluto
David DeWolf explains how to embed the Pluto Portlet Container into a Web application and investigates the basic architecture of Portal Systems, provides an overview of Pluto's public API, and discusses two different integration techniques. [more Intranet Development]
Developing a Custom Web Part, Part 3
In Part 3 of his series, Paul discusses how to save the data entered on the user input form and then how to render the output of the Web Part. [more Microsoft SharePoint; more Intranet Development]
DayPoint SE Offers a Start for Collaboration
Want to start out with a small collaboration investment before making a big investment? DayPoint SE offers the same look and feel as DayPoint Enterprise with much of the same functionality. [more Collaboration]
Senforce's ESS Offers Easy Integrated Security
Senforce Endpoint Security Suite (ESS) covers firewall protection, VPN enforcement, WiFi control, theft protection, and endpoint integrity. The latest version is easy to install and configure. [more Security]
Human-Centered Intranet Design
Developers need to have a deeper understanding that regardless of what technology allows them to do, the end product must conform to the natural way in which humans work. [more Intranet Administration]
Inxight Searches for Relationships in Enterprise Data
Corporations spent a great deal of time over the last 10 years creating digital content and building intranets, portals, and repositories to store it all. Throw in departmental efforts, a merger or acquisition or two, and now no one can find anything. [more Knowledge Management]
Developing Portlets with Apache Pluto
David DeWolf takes a look at the basic architecture of the portal driver and introduces the development utilities and techniques for the Pluto Project. [more Intranet Development]
Multi-Tier Intranet Ownership
The biggest ownership mistake involving large, multi-disciplinary intranets is to appoint a single department as the sole governing body of the system. [more Intranet Administration]
Eliminating Employee Burnout in IT
With the end of the year approaching, it's a good time to make sure you're aware of the signs of employee burnout and what you can do to combat it. [more Intranet Administration]
The Jury is Out on Microsoft's ECM Plan
Now that analysts have had time to review and digest Microsoft's plan for enterprise content management, they are starting to weigh in on what to expect. [more Knowledge Management]
Developing a Custom Web Part, Part 2
Paul's series on developing a custom SharePoint Web Part continues by discussing the forms necessary for user input. [more Microsoft SharePoint; more Intranet Development]
Test Drive: Web-Based Word Processors
Collaboration is at the heart of the Web-based word processors that seem to be popping up all over the place. See how Writeboard, Writely, and Zoho Writer compare to e-mailing around various versions of a Word document. [more Collaboration]
Macromedia Lowers the Price for Rich Applications
Flex is Macromedia's platform for creating Rich Internet Applications, and it's now available in a less-expensive version called Flex Builder 2. [more Intranet Development]
Zimbra is E-Mail with a Touch of AJAX
The typical e-mail client is almost identical to the ones we were using five years ago. That's why Zimbra, an open-source collaboration suite that uses AJAX to spice up e-mail and calendars, is making some noise. [more Collaboration; more Intranet Development]
The Evolution of Corporate Communications
Effective corporate communication involves not only the message itself, but also the medium that carries and delivers it. The use of e-mail is giving way to RSS, podcasts, and video messages. [more Intranet Administration]
A Sensible Framework for SharePoint Intranet Navigation
Although the fundamental concepts behind a sensible navigation framework are simple, they are not well understood by developers or designers. [more Microsoft SharePoint; more Intranet Development]
Enterprise Search Gets Refined in ISYS:web 7
ISYS is one of the search companies looking to step in where the big names have yet to step up. ISYS:web 7 is the latest version of its search solution for Web sites, intranets, and portals. [more Knowledge Management]
What's the Buzz About Alfresco?
Can Alfresco do for enterprise content repositories what Apache did for Web servers? Founded by executives from commercial content management vendors, the open source repository launches later this year. [more Intranet Development]
Marqui Adds Blog Module to Marketing CMS
The company that ignited a controversy with a pay-for-bloggers program last year has launched its own blog module to help corporate communicators join the game. [more Knowledge Management; more Collaboration]
Unplugged: Information Overload Requires a Human Solution
Before we can design better software, Paul Chin says we first need to understand and address our own abilities (or inabilities) to manage information and organize our work day. [more Knowledge Management]
Goodbye Intranets.com, Hello WebExOne
WebEx CEO Subrah Iyar said the acquisition of Intranets.com would result in new products and services to help small businesses communicate and collaborate. That day has arrived. [more Collaboration]
Developing a Custom Web Part, Part 1
Paul Schaeflein walks you through the process of developing a Web Part for Microsoft SharePoint. [more Intranet Development; more Microsoft SharePoint]
Skeletons in Your Intranet Closet: Legalities of Content Use
If it ever gets out that your organization is making use of content that oversteps the boundaries imposed by the copyright holder, it can land your company in a lot of legal hot water. Part One of Paul Chin's series on the legalities of content use. [more Knowledge Management; more Intranet Administration]
SocialText Opens Up Code to Promote Wikis
Enterprise wiki vendor SocialText is opening up the code to its applications in a move that will help promote the wiki platform and aid SocialText in the development of its products. [more Collaboration]
NextPage Adds Activity Center to Track Documents
NextPage 2.0, a remarkably simple tool for tracking document versions, has added a handy Activity Center control panel that shows users the status of all the documents they're tracking in real-time. [more Collaboration]
New Appliances from McAfee Keep the Network Tight
McAfee has introduced three new online security appliances that should block any outside or inside threats while leaving your network moving as quickly as ever. [more Security]
Ektron Adds Automated Replication to .NET Offering
The latest enhancement to Ektron's .NET content management offering is automated site replication, an integrated feature Ektron unveiled earlier this month. [more Knowledge Management]
An Alternative for Search and Knowledge Management
An alternative to traditional search and knowledge management capabilities is emerging that eliminates the reliance on these assumptions, making the process of locating internal information more productive and successful. [more Knowledge Management]
Cisco Adds Flash for Conferencing Product
Cisco's MeetingPlace Express is designed to put conferencing features behind the corporate firewall for customers so they don't have to buy it from outside vendors. [more Collaboration]
Interwoven Puts Records Management Front and Center
Traditionally a back-office task focused mostly on paper, records management is integrated with e-mail and document management systems in Interwoven's Records Manager 5.0. [more Knowledge Management]
Microsoft to Tackle Office 'Overload'
Colin Haley of InternetNews reports back from Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference, where the next version of Office has been unveiled. [more Intranet Administration]
MindManager 6 Takes It Up a Notch
The latest version of Mindjet's MindManager visual planning and collaboration tool features enhanced integration with Microsoft products and makes it easier to create incredibly slick and versatile maps. [more Intranet Administration]
Taking Stock: Intranet Content Audits
Content audits are needed to evaluate not only the state and performance of a corporate intranet, but an organization's information assets in general. Paul Chin shows you how. [more Knowledge Management; more Intranet Administration]
Reading and Writing RSS with SharePoint
This month, Paul takes a look at some easy to install and use solutions for including RSS content in SharePoint sites. [more Intranet Development; more Microsoft SharePoint]
Establishing Intranet Content Credibility
The credibility of the content providers translates to the credibility of content, which in turn translates to the credibility of the intranet as a whole.[more Intranet Administration]
Central Desktop Offers Wikis Without the Wiki
The idea behind Central Desktop is to improve on the wiki foundation and give people an online collaboration tool that simply works, no special training required. [more Collaboration]
Harnessing Properties in SharePoint Search
Learn how SharePoint uses document library fields to create properties that are searchable and how to enable searching on those properties. [more Intranet Development; more Microsoft SharePoint]
Easy RSS for All with FeedForAll
Sometimes RSS isn't always so simple. That's why NotePage, Inc. has come up with FeedForAll, a beautifully simple program that makes creating and editing RSS feeds a breeze. [more Collaboration]
AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML?
Is AJAX simply a development technique that combines "Asynchronous JavaScript + XML," or can AJAX include something else, such as "Asynchronous Java + XML?" [more Intranet Development]
Composite Applications Signal New Direction for Portals
The original concept for portal software was a place where enterprise workers could get access to the resources, documents, information, and people they needed to do their jobs. But now the market for portals has evolved to a point where some analysts have no idea what to call it.[more Knowledge Management]
It's Easy to Secure Windows 2000 Servers, Part 6
In Part 6, Laura Taylor covers how to secure a Windows 2000 Exchange server, a messaging application designed for the secure transmission of enterprise e-mail. [more Security; more Securing Windows Servers]
Providing Equal Access: Implementing Information Kiosks
Every organization has a fundamental set of resources that can be considered essential services. Access to the Internet, e-mail, and more importantly, corporate resources only available through an intranet, are no longer seen as a privilege but a necessity and a right. [more Intranet Administration]
Something to Watch Over Your Intranet
Software to monitor Web sites and intranets for broken links and poor performance is nothing new, but Watchfire's new Intranet Standards module for its WebXM product monitors your intranet for compliance and privacy problems and much more. [more Intranet Administration] | |||||||||||||||||
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