All posts by Luke Mepham


Vendor profile: Plone

The Intranetizen team are often asked advice about intranet vendors that supply software and hardware solutions to run your intranet. Whilst we have 35 years of blue-chip intranet experience between us, in common with many intranet practitioners, we have relatively limited experience of the 200+ [read more]

Vendor profile: SmallWorlders

The Intranetizen team are often asked advice about intranet vendors that supply software and hardware solutions to run your intranet. Whilst we have 35 years of blue-chip intranet experience between us, in common with many intranet practitioners, we have relatively limited experience of the 200+ [read more]


Ensure intranet project failure: A guide for project sponsors

So you’re sponsoring the intranet project? Good work – you have an opportunity to really make a difference to an under-utilised and potentially hugely valuable tool that is already used by most of the company on a daily basis. But what’s that? You have heard [read more]

What women (and other intranet users) really want

Worldwide Intranet challenge recently ran a poll on Linkedin asking the question “What is the one improvement to your intranet you would like to see in 2012?” Nearly 300 people responded, and the results make interesting reading, but as many commentators before us noted, this is a [read more]

Intranet 2012 predictions

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. — Niels Bohr The second week back in the office after the Christmas and New Year break is the oddest time, the holiday break feels very distant already. It’s a great time to propose ideas, plan out [read more]

Milestones on the intranet mobile roadmap

In her excellent report on Digital Workspace trends, Jane McConnell pointed out that the corporate intranet is becoming increasingly ‘place independent’ — that is to say, employees are expecting to be able to access their intranet from wherever they so choose. For some, that meant [read more]

10 laws for intranet managers

From the outset of this post, it’s vital to point out that neither of the editors of Intranetizen are lawyers — reader, if we were, we’d not be publishing this, but would be charging you a small fortune for the next few paragraphs! It is [read more]

Intranet change freeze

This weekend we upgrade our Intranet.  But rather than it being the invisible, out of hours operation we had hoped, the sheer volume of data that needs to be moved means the work will take over 48 hours and as a result we are having [read more]