barbara haven: Intranet

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:29:17 GMT

Accessiblity
Wonder call. Stevie Wonder's plea on gadgets [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:20:03 GMT

Social network platform Ning now supports OpenSocial Standard

Ning adds Google OpenSocial support to its social networks. Social network platform Ning announced that it is now supporting the OpenSocial standard that lets applications run across multiple sites and social networks. By heather_havenstein@computerworld.com. [Latest from Computerworld]

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:55:08 GMT

Complex Public Websites

Public websites 'too complex'. Many government websites are still too complicated and difficult to use, says a report by the National Audit Office. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Earlier today I almost bought a book called Untechnical Writing. The hope of possibly being able to express technical things in non-technical terms was appealing. It showed up on an online bookstore's recommendations, where I was researching writing and media style guides for websites. Now it seems obvious to me that a style guide for printed publications isn't going to work for websites. It's not that different people read them but the same people read websites differently than they read printed material.

Related to presenting information, categories, structure and navigation need to be developed with the readers/viewers. I decided to experiment with Websort = Web-based card sorting.
Online card sorting lets participants take as long as they like. None of the site's developers or information architects are visibly reacting to how participants group the subjects/cards.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:58:13 GMT

Collaboration from IBM

I.B.M. to Introduce Workers[base '] Networking Software. I.B.M. plans to announce a set of social software tools typically associated with sites like MySpace and Facebook to the corporate world. By LAURIE J. FLYNN. [NYT > Technology] They still have a huge number of employees and the Lotus legacy, so this could bring something interesting.

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 02:30:40 GMT

Intranet Consistency for Credibility

From Alert Box, "Rather than offering a unified intranet portal, one big company's intranet had inconsistent design and used different systems to manage different areas. As employees moved around the intranet, the navigation options and structural appearance changed. Parts of the intranet looked outdated compared to newer sections, which made users doubt the accuracy of the older pages' information. Again, this is a credibility problem -- trust is not just an e-commerce issue."