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XPages: The Time is Now
This new technology will pretty much change how you will build Lotus Notes web apps (and soon Notes apps themselves) forever. [more Administration]

Developers Can't Discount Human Nature
Good applications are centered on the people who use them, not those who made them. [more Administration]

Kathmandu Picks Intranet Dashboard Over SharePoint
The Outdoor clothing retailer implements the intranet service across its 80 stores in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. [more Administration]

ThinkFree Brings Document Collaboration to the Enterprise Times
The company has signed up 700,000 users worldwide with its free online office document tools, and now it's trying to expand that appeal to small- and mid-size businesses. [more Administration]

Mutiny on the Intranet: Maintain a Healthy Staff During Tough Times
Strong employee morale is vital to ensuring intranet content quality, employee collaboration, overall job satisfaction, and ultimately, employee retention. [more Administration]

Enhance Your Lotus Skills on the Cheap
If you look around, chances are you can find a very helpful local user group in your area. [more Administration]

Social Media: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids� Brains!
I know that social media is a very divisive topic, but I didn't know to what extent until I wrote last month�s op-ed column, �Is Social Media Diluting the Message?�. The article brought out strong proponents and opponents on either side of the issue. [more Administration]

Top Open Source Apps For OS X
Matt Hartley explains why he likes Camino, Miro, Vienna, Burn, NeoOffice, and other applications. [more Administration]

Create Your SharePoint Governance Plan
Rather than a specific step-by-step process, what appears here is a rough framework that you can and should tailor to your unique situation. [more Administration]

Acrobat.com Learns a New Trick: Presentations
The prosaically named Presentations is launching in beta and it delivers a similar experience as Buzzword, the suite's word processor: it makes online document collaboration easy, although it doesn't wow with features. [more Administration]

What Does Your Intranet Brand Say?
Although you�re marketing your intranet to an internal user community, an effective intranet brand can affect and direct user�s perception of the system. [more Administration]

Is Your Intranet at Recession Strength?
A recent poll showed that people tend to underestimate the value of the intranet compared to what IBF has found through the Intranet Financial Value Benchmark. [more Administration]

Lotus's Killer App: Augmenting Backups with Replication
I've written before about what I think is the killer feature that really separates Lotus Notes from its competition. When it comes to application and data mobility, that feature is Replication. [more Collaboration]

Is Social Media Diluting the Message?
Has the focus shifted away from a desire to transmit an important message through an effective medium to conjuring up any message as an excuse for using the medium? [more Collaboration]

Tips For Collaborating with SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint provides a central place to access, manage, share, and interact with relevant information, documents, and people. [more Collaboration]

5 Tips for Maximizing SharePoint
Tips to help your workforce adapt and accept portals as collaborative, successful ways of working. [more Development]

Six Steps to Intranet Success
One rule is: When your employees log on to the network every day, the first thing they should see is your intranet. [more Development]

Good Technology Makes Mobile Connections Easy
The company just released version 6 of it's mobility platform Good for Enterprise, making it easier for companies to stay secure while allowing access from a variety of mobile devices. [more Development]

Understanding Your Intranet User Types
When you have an understanding of the backgrounds, abilities, and work habits of your users, you�ll stand a better chance of finding that middle ground that makes them happy. [more Development]

Case Study: Intranet Dashboard Boosts Australian Job Site
SEEK's fast growth as Australia's number one employment website was putting pressure on its customer service staff. Intranet Dashboard forged a new internal information hub. [more Development]

Determine the Financial Value of Your Intranet
The Intranet Benchmarking Forum will soon launch its new Intranet Financial Value Benchmark. [more Development]

Choose an Overseer to Conduct Your Intranet Orchestra
Large-scale intranets require the cooperation of distributed, multidisciplinary, and self-governing groups of developers and designers, content managers, and business analysts. [more Development]

Desktop Linux Video App Roundup
There's a belief with this platform that there's really nothing available for seasoned media professionals. Matt Hartley puts those fears to rest. [more Development]

Is Your Career with Lotus Safe? (Part 2)
In this column, John Roling focuses on what you, a Lotus Notes and Domino professional, can do to keep yourself employable and weather the current economic storm. [more Development]

QueSearch: A Search Engine for your Legacy Data
QuePlix's new product can pull structured data from CRM apps, tracking systems, knowledge bases, product catalogs, billing systems, and marketing. [more Development]

10 Must-Have Linux Applications
Matt Hartley sings the praises of Evolution, WINE, GIMP, Filezilla, Swiftfox, Pidgin, and others. [more Development]

Acrobat.com Gains Three Needed Features
The new features all have to do with Adobe's Buzzword acquisition: document comparisons, full justification, and EPUB exporting. [more Development]

Wacky Developers: Dangerous or Brilliant?
A story of a highly talented but egocentric developer, the type we all know and dislike. Can we stop enabling these people? [more Development]

Open Text Beefs Up Translation, eDiscovery Tools
The enterprise content management company rolls out several significant upgrades in the translation and compliancy arenas. [more Development]

Jive Launches Tools, Strategy for Social Business Software
The small software innovator debuts what it's calling the industry's first enterprise-class, social business software application suite -- Jive SBS 3.0. [more Development]

Could R360 Change the Way You Communicate?
A little-known communications platform called R360 blends e-mail, instant messaging, search, project collaboration, and document sharing into a single interface. [more Development]

E-commerce, Web 2.0 Trends Growing, Survey Finds
Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET web content management system (CMS) software, has identified three key web content management trends from its second annual customer survey. [more Development]

Intranet Dashboard Pilots Jetstar's Intranet
Launched in mid 2008, the project has been a resounding success, with the intranet widely regarded as the "source of truth" by Jetstar's employees. [more Development]

Intranet Journal Announces Product of the Year Winners
Sorce Intranet had a phenomenal year, winning two categories -- Document Management and Intranet Design -- with large margins of victory. [more Collaboration]





Intranet Stimulus Package: Surviving Tough Economic Times
Here's how you justify the continued existence of your intranet, convince management to support an intranet re-design, and attract new users. [more Development]

Can Social Networking 'Friend' the Intranet?
Many managers are reluctant to take the social networking plunge and invest in communication systems that seem like time wasters at best and security nightmares at worst. [more Development]

The Dangers of Vendor Lock-In
When looking at software with which to build your business, consider using open source solutions. Not because you want to support something with which you may or may not agree, but out of self preservation. [more Development]

A Purpose-Driven Technology Life
While all manner of effort is made to inject new technology into the corporate bloodstream, developers are sometimes unable to answer the most basic question: Why? [more Development]

Surviving the Rough Economy with Lotus Software
With businesses looking to cut costs whenever possible, John Roling shares some ways that products from Lotus can help you reduce costs in some obvious, and not-so-obvious ways. [more Development]

Case Study: DocuLex Eases Lawyers' Case Management
Attorneys dealing with 40,000 cases and 1,250,000 images a year, all in a small space. That was the document-management challenge faced by a Florida agency. [more Development]

Microsoft Unveils FAST Search for SharePoint
In a move to further penetrate the enterprise search market, Microsoft today rolled out FAST Search for SharePoint, which will offer high-end enterprise search capabilities in connection with its widely deployed SharePoint server. [more Development]

How to Launch an Intranet: Penn State Case Study
This is the story of how Penn State Outreach executed a very loud launch of their new intranet, our.outreach, built on ThoughtFarmer intranet software. [more Development]

Thriving CVSDude Moving Headquarters to U.S. Awards
CVSDude � which creates a global intranet that is a secure place for collaboration � has announced a range of initiatives and financial milestones. [more Development]

Vote Now: Intranet Journal Product of the Year Awards
It�s time to vote for your favorite business applications. Stand up and be counted. [more Development]

Don't Forsake These Java Apps, Linux Users
Over the years, Flash and Ajax have killed some of Java's buzz. But Matt Hartley argues that many Java apps are still the best in the business. [more Development]

Avoid the Pitfalls of Intranet Migration
A lot of things can go wrong during an enterprise-wide intranet migration, but preparation and foresight can help you avoid some of the most common problems. [more Collaboration]

SemantiNet's Firefox Plug-in Headup Ready for Download
The semantic web app is designed to help users find contextual relationships of the disparate data that resides on the web and provide a real-time connection to the information you�re viewing on a particular site. [more Collaboration]

E-Discovery the Focus of Autonomy's Interwoven Buy
The British information search specialist recently purchased Interwoven, a U.S. content management provider, for $775 million. [more Security]

iWork.com: Online Collaboration with Apple
Along with new versions of the three included apps -- Keynote, Pages, and Numbers -- Apple has built in one-click integration with its new collaboration service, iWork.com [more Collaboration]

Social Networking Transforms the Best Intranets
The Nielsen Normal Group recently named the year's best intranets, with the big trend being the rapid adoption of Web 2.0 tools. [more Development]

Lotusphere Ends with Aggressive Stance from IBM
The conference wraps up with Big Blue touting more than 12,000 new customers, including Nationwide, Southern California Edison, Global Hyatt Corp., and the Coca-Coca Company. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

Socialtext Cranks Up Social Networks for Corporate Alums
With layoffs happening in record numbers, people and companies alike are trying to solve the employment and talent puzzle. Socialtext is one social networking vendor that is offering a solution to this puzzle and creating a three-way win. [more Collaboration]

The Well-Prepared Mobile Superhero
Paul Chin details his favorite gear for the mobile writer. [more Collaboration]

5 Reasons Users Fail to Make the Linux Switch
What drives users to try Linux, only to fail to make it work for them in the long haul? Matt Hartley explores the ego issues and technical challenges that get in the way. [more Administration]

Lotusphere Resonates with the Lotus Faithful
Lotus focuses on making all of the Lotus portfolio interoperate or "resonate" within each other and also announces beefed up social networking. [more Administration]

Day Software Beefs Up Web Content Management Tools
Day releases Version 5.1 of its Communique software, which boasts major transformations to its enterprise content management and web content management products. [more Administration]

Top 5 Linux Distros to Convert Windows Users
Ubuntu may dominate the headlines, but other Linux-newbie-friendly distributions should also be considered. [more Collaboration]

Intranet Content Programming: Connect With Your Audience
Failing to understand the needs and backgrounds of your users can drastically shorten the lifespan of your intranet. [more Administration]

InQuira Eliminates Language Barrier
The latest release from the trusted knowledge management platform allows for easy information search and retrieval between 13 languages. [more Administration]

CVSDude Offers Easy Collaboration and Support, Too
CVSDude allows for collaborative development for people working with open source tools. Now the popular product will be joined by an enterprise edition. [more Collaboration]

Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 On the Way
This release adds many things that will give you an immediate return on investment, and the new development features will change the way your intranet is created and maintained. [more Administration]

The Best Open Source Alternatives to MS Exchange
You don�t have to rely on the Redmond behemoth for enterprise-level groupware functionality. Check out Zimbra, OpenGroupware, and Scalix. [more Administration]

Datamation Blog: Social Network or Die
Internet security vendors are telling the industry to basically stay away from social networking sites. While we all can appreciate the heightened level of security risk stemming from these new types of Web-based services, security providers are missing the boat. [more Administration]

Netbooks: The Perfect Stocking Stuffer
Only time will tell if netbooks become huge sellers. They�re not suitable for everyone. But for basic productivity and connectivity needs, they make a great present. [more Administration]

5 Best Linux/BSD Firewall Tools
Matt Hartley explores the options for turning an older PC into a standalone router/firewall appliance. [more Security]

Best Backup Solutions for Desktop Linux
Our Linux expert recommends apps like CrashPlan, Amanda, or the easy-to-use Rsync, because being practical does not mean you have to stop being geeky. [more Security]

What's In an Intranet Name?
An intranet name is much more than a label. It contributes to the system's brand identity and allows you to design a creative marketing campaign. [more Development]

FatWire Offers More Ease of Use with Upgraded CMS
The company releases FatWire Content Server 7.5, extending its core web content management solution with some notable features. [more Collaboration]

The Truth About Linux Hardware Compatibility
Yes, there are some hardware compatibility resources, but just how usable are they if we are unable to discern what works and what does not? [more Administration]

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Amps Up Collaboration
Adobe's powerhouse suite shows impressive improvements in all areas, but this time there's a special emphasis on collaboration. [more Collaboration]

Orbius: Social Computing for Business
This year has seen several young companies -- including Orbius -- offering to harness the power of social networking for business. [more Collaboration]

IBM Offers Office Productivity for a Song
IBM Lotus Symphony is now available as a stand-alone suite that's available for anyone to download for free. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

Fighting Intranet User Apathy
Trying to get users excited about their intranet can sometimes be as challenging as trying to get children excited about doing their homework. [more Development]

Are E-tailers Using Customers as Guinea Pigs?
Online retailers still aren't doing everything they should to protect consumer information. [more Development]

Enhance PC Security with Open Source Apps
Matt Hartley is feeling secure with himself and his open source security choices, including Wireshark, ClamWin, and Winpooch. [more Security]

Verizon, Cisco Dial Up Unified Communications
Verizon Business is now offering one UC&C; solution with the Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.1 platform. [more Development]
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OpenOffice 3.0 Beefs Up Collaboration, Extensions
The free alternative to Microsoft Office and other commercial office suites is looking more professional and fully featured than ever. [more Development]

10 Reasons to Not Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10
Before it is even released, Matt Hartley has already found a number of reasons why he will not be upgrading his various computers to the latest version of the Linux distribution. [more Development]

Why 'MafiaBoy' is Right About Net's Risks
Paul Chin concurs with the infamous hacker turned author and laments that too many Internet users still don't get it. [more Development]

Podcast: Semantic Web Investment Opportunities
In this edition of the Semantic Web Gang, regular members are joined by three guests to discuss the investment potential of the Semantic Web and semantic technologies. [more Development]

Traction TeamPage 4: Putting Hypertext to Work for You
The latest version of its signature enterprise blog and wiki product takes hyperlinking and content relationships to a new level. [more Development]

IBM Lotus Opens the Bluehouse
Bluehouse is a software as a service offering that allows your business to rent project rooms outside the firewall so you can collaborate with external sources. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

Socialtext Unveils Enterprise Collaboration Tools
In addition to its upgraded Socialtext Workspace enterprise wiki offering, the company also announced the upcoming Socialtext Signals, a Twitter-style micro-blogging tool. [more Collaboration]

Top 10 Open Source Productivity Apps
Matt Hartley examines OrangeHRM, Task Coach, Inforama, Onepoint Project, Collabtive, GroupOffice, and other applications from the open source universe. [more Collaboration]

Lotus Notes Comes to the iPhone
IBM Lotus iNotes Ultralite is a web application that you access through the mobile Safari web browser on the iPhone. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

Socialcast Harnesses Power of Online Conversations
The Socialcast interface will be familiar if you've used MySpace or other social networking sites. The difference, though, is that everyone on Socialcast is a company employee. [more Collaboration]

Open Source vs. Proprietary Intranet Software, Part 3
An organization's choice of either an open source or proprietary software solution must be based on its own specific needs and resources -- not on what others are doing or saying. [more Administration]

Yammer Offers Twitter-Like Features for Businesses
Yammer makes communication more horizontal and peer-to-peer while still allowing knowledge and information to flow where it needs to go. [more Administration]

A PC By Any Other Name is Still a PC
Has Microsoft's multi-million dollar ad campaign reinvigorated its brand? After watching its commercials a number of times, all Paul Chin has to say is, "yada, yada, yada." [more Administration]

Telligent Brings Social Networking to the Internet
Building off its Community Server online networking suite, the company has created Community Server Evolution, an intranet-focused application. [more Collaboration]

7 Reasons Why BSD Is Better than Linux
Matt Hartley sings the praises of BSD -- another group of open source operating systems -- and also details three areas where BSD must improve. [more Collaboration]

PlanDone Unveils Project Management, Collaboration Tool
The software -- which features tools called MyTop10, MyTimeline, and MyTasks -- focuses on completing projects and uses the collaboration element to make that happen. [more Collaboration]

Why Mobile-Sync Options for Linux are Lacking
The sync tools are already out there, Matt Hartley writes, we just need someone to bring them together and provide a common means of making mobile synchronization available for everyone. [more Administration]

The Same Lotus App Inside, Outside the Firewall
Have you ever had a web application that you wanted to allow anonymous access to inside the firewall, but outside the firewall you wanted to require passwords? John Roling shows you how to do both. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

Open Source vs. Proprietary Intranet Software, Part 2
For all the advantages open source software offers, it's not always the easiest to set up if you're not technically inclined. Sometimes it's just easier to go with a known quantity to simplify your intranet life. [more Development]

Kick Linux To The Curb?
As Matt Hartley ponders a switch to Apple�s OS X, he fashions a list of improvements closed-source platforms could provide to win him back. [more Development]

Intranet 2.0 in 10 Not-So-Easy Steps
Thousands of corporate intranets are seldom-used, impossibly complex beasts. One expert offers his rules on getting to intranet 2.0. [more Development]

The 7 Best Closed-Source Apps for Linux
Linux expert Matt Hartley explains why he's a fan of Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader, Picasa, Acronis Disk Director Suite, VueScan, Opera, and Lotus Notes. [more Administration]

'Kilen Woods:' MindTouch's Killer App?
MindTouch's biggest release, dubbed "Kilen Woods," delivers new workflow capabilities, adapters, and usability improvements targeted at the enterprise. [more Administration]

Top 5 Linux Migration Tips For Small Offices
When most people think of switching their office to a Linux distribution, the very idea of getting started must seem overwhelming. Linux guru Matt Hartley is here to help. [more Administration]

Acrobat.com Simplifies Collaboration Tools
Buzzword is now the cornerstone of Acrobat.com, Adobe's new online suite of tools (now in beta), and it just might change the way you collaborate on documents. [more Collaboration]

Box.net's Upgrades a Hit With Businesses
The company's enterprise version offers the same storage and collaboration features as the consumer version, but with group management and reporting tools. [more Security]

Princeton Review Deserves Detention for Data Debacle
Another data breach is making headlines, this time concerning tens of thousands of students in Florida and Virginia. [more Security]

FatWire Unveils Content Integration Platform
The addition to the company's product line offers an easy way to unlock information from internal data silos and publish it to the web. [more Administration]

Dial 'D' for Intranet Developers, Not Designers
The participation of true developers, and not glorified designers, is crucial in the development and implementation of an intranet-based content management system. [more Collaboration]

Top 4 Alternatives to Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu has created some buzz, but our Linux guru Matt Hartley says you should also consider alternatives OpenSuSE, PCLinuxOS, Freespire, and Linux Mint. [more Collaboration]

How To Use Site Definitions in SharePoint
Robert Bogue illuminates the primary reasons that you should be creating site definitions -- and some reasons why you shouldn�t. [more Microsoft SharePoint]

Podcast: Kingsley Idehen on OpenLink Software, Linked Data
In this broadcast, Paul Miller talks with Kingsley Idehen, president and CEO of OpenLink Software. They discuss OpenLink's approach, and the role that semantic technologies play in this, before turning to a broader discussion of Linked Data. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

IBM Lotus Software Revenue Grows 21 Percent
Big Blue also announced that it has been ranked as the worldwide market share leader in the enterprise portal space by analyst firm IDC. [more Lotus Notes Intranets]

Vivisimo Cures Biomedical Library's Search Woes
The U.S. National Library of Medicine implemented the Velocity Search Platform when it needed a new search function for its popular web site. [more Development]

Open Source vs. Proprietary Intranet Software, Part 1
Some open source solutions are a great choice for organizations that have highly technical staff, while firms with little in-house IT resources might find the learning curve too steep. [more Development]


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