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About Joe Lamantia

Joe Lamantia has combined deep insight and elegant design to create meaningful experiences for people in a wide variety of industries and settings since 1996. His clients range from Fortune 100 enterprises to startups, non-profits, digital product companies, and social media. He is currently based in Amsterdam, working as a strategy consultant for interactive agency Media Catalyst and he blogs at www.joelamantia.com. For detailed discussion of the Building Blocks framework, see the series of articles by Lamantia at BoxesandArrows.com www.boxesandarrows.com.

Articles by Joe Lamantia
Enterprise portals promise increased productivity, utility, and convenience by gathering scattered content and functionality into a single destination experience. Yet many portals become victims of their own success. Rapid expansion and frequent changes in audience and content lead to problems of poorly integrated or conflicting assets, impaired usability and findability, and inflated management and IT support costs. The cumulative inconvenience of sprawling collections of portlets stuck in a flat information architecture quickly overwhelms the value of the business assets, content, and functionality the portal brings together.
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