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Early this decade, the U.S. Navy was involved in a number of major global crises - such as disaster relief for tsunamis and hurricanes. The U.S. Navy Office of Information was responsible for sharing photos, videos, reports, and images to media outlets. Damon Moritz, video program manager, was just beginning his career with the Navy Office of Information at this particularly hectic time. At that same time, the department was changing from a tape-based workflow to an all-digital workflow.
"[W]hile the role of technology and digital networks such as the Internet or intranets is important for the perceived KM, technology is just an enabler. ... The role of technology is only an enabler within KM initiatives that includes business and people. ..." (from Chapter 1 of KM-WM).
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In the U.K., UKeiG (www.ukeig.org.uk) runs an intranet forum as a community of interest for intranet managers. At a recent meeting in London, there were about 20 attendees, but none of them had the title "intranet manager." One of the main reasons was that their intranet management role was only a part-time position.
In my last column, I wrote about an individual organization moving through the various stages of maturity. The same thing happens on an industrywide basis. I recently attended Taxonomy Boot Camp, where I saw colleagues and new and old clients. One client in particular stood out: The company had been embarking on a faceted search project and needed to review, evaluate, and improve a large taxonomy that was used to navigate thousands of pages of product data.
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Global Intranet Trends For 2011 Report; Professional Microsoft Search: FAST Search, SharePoint Search, and Search Server
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