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For most of us, a few days away from the computer results in a few hours of sifting through email messages and other documents delivered during the offline period. Now imagine that you've been asked to sift through several years of email and other documents to find information specific for a lawsuit against your company.
It goes without saying that innovation is a process that will be forever in motion. Whatever its speed may be, technology is eternally, invariably moving forward. So when it comes to discussing technology, the conversation inevitably turns to the subject of the latest advancement or to predictions of the next big step forward.The questions, "What's new?" and "What's next?" are especially salient in the field of intranets, where technologies, tools, implementations, and integrations are never quite as far along as perhaps they might be, since the outward-facing online environments tend to take up most of an organization's figurative bandwidth.
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I think that 2011 will be seen as the year that mobile access arrived, and 2012 will be a year of significant development. Interestingly, two of the award winners in the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards, which were run by Step Two Designs Pty Ltd., were mobile implementations. When the next "Intranet Design Annual" report from the Nielsen Norman Group is published in early 2012, I expect there will be a significant increase in mobile application development.
Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 provides features that enable organizations to deploy content-rich applications in less time and for less cost. SharePoint creates an opportunity for more efficient content curation, search relevancy, and automated display of related content on your intranet.SharePoint 2010 has constructs that did not exist in 2007-namely content types and managed metadata across site collections. Content types are collections of metadata along with rules for how a document created with the content type is managed. There is support for taxonomies and folksonomies, as well as for inheritance of metadata models and structures.
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The Social Organization; The Digital Workplace: Redefining Productivity in the Information Age
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