Comments on: When will we be freed from the intranet?

By: Katja

Katja — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:14:46 +0000

I agree with the former writers. I think you can have the classical intranet reflecting the organisational structure and presenting the policies, rules, missions and visions of the organisation. You can also have the free intranet where everyone can express their opinion, publish information, build up new pages, start new projects, find new partners, write articles and project plans collaboratively… You can have these two alongside in one intranet. In the organisation I’m studying, they have managed this with a wiki-intranet. It has made a tremendous difference for the internal communication and collaboration opportunities. I think these kind of intranets are the future.

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By: ckreutz

ckreutz — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:47:21 +0000

@Johannes yes you might be right that classical intranets will continue to be that way because they are an equivalent to the organizational structure. But I contradict that only authoritative information is the one you can rely on. In contrary especially an organizational setting would allow to use a wiki because there is a higher trust and better mechanism to verify information. In a company with a wiki intranet I read about, the CEO found a great entry he liked very much. It was very innovative and so he tried to find out who wrote it. He was surprised it was a secretary. So when do we start to unleash the full potential of employees?

By: Johannes

Johannes — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:46:21 +0000

You know how much I would like to agree with your vision, as I am meanwhile a strong fan of wikis and social networks. However, let me play devil’s advocate here. I think the top-down intranet will not die out soon, but will rather be accompanied by flat social software components. Because at some point everyone is just tired of making decisions and rating content and just wants to ‘consume’ authoritative information he/she can rely on. It’s probably similar to the prophecy of the extinction of classical TV programs in favor of interativce TV on demand (where users could even chose camera angles or vote on content). Some actually like it, but in the end, we just don’t have the energy to make decisions all the time. Of course we can see a culture change happening in theset times and maybe at one point we will indeed all be open and social. But I don’t think it’s a given and if it will happen, this is a change process that will probably take much longer than we as current Web 2.0 fans would wish for.

By: Joitske

Joitske — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:54:40 +0000

But there is also intranet 2.0 see the link in my blogpost here http://joitskehulsebosch.blogspot.com/2007/09/organisation-20.html

By: Christian Kreutz

Christian Kreutz — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:03:24 +0000

wrote a blog about a personal hope: When will we be freed from the intranet? http://tinyurl.com/ys8mzm