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Nonprofit organizations like the United Methodist Church can put information technology to work to improve financial control and internal business processes and protect against potential abuse. IT-based solutions can help ease the management of program funds by automatically documenting donation flow and providing secure levels of access as well as providing a trail for conducting internal or even external audits.
What if your knowledge workers could easily tag important documents so they could be retrieved precisely using today’s search engines, but without the thousands of irrelevant documents that are returned in a typical search? And what if your extranet partners could use the same technique to retrieve pages relevant to their needs? Perhaps you’ve tried metatags and taxonomies with limited success, but there’s a way to go deeper, to provide utterly accurate search results. The secret is “tagging” your “memes.”
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At home, you have broadband, with a wireless router allowing you to surf the net anywhere in your house. Your news aggregator tracks RSS feeds of dozens of different blogs, and your bookmarks are stored in del.icio.us. Having long since abandoned film cameras, all your digital photos are uploaded to Flickr to share with your friends. Maybe you even post to your own blog. The Web seems to be undergoing a new phase of rapid evolution, under the “Web 2.0” banner. Whatever it is called, there are many new services being delivered, driven by entirely new forms of interaction. It’s an exciting time to be using the Web . . . well, at home anyway. When you get work, it’s a whole different story.
Intranet teams should proactively participate during the acquisition of content management technologies in their organizations. Public Web initiatives may get the spotlight, but if a CMS is to serve as a pivotal organizational asset, intranet teams need to step up and get involved. Typically, during the initial discovery phase for CMS selection, we find that the requirements for the intranet are much more sophisticated than are those for Internet-based sites. When we point this out to the CMS stakeholders, they get a glazed look in their eyes and a faint Mona Lisa smile on their lips.
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Reviewed this issue:Ambient Findability; Useit.com; IAI Intranet Review Toolkit
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