Behind the Firewall: Content management and Collaboration on the Intranet
Away from this blog, I've been putting a lot of energy into how best to work with social software in larger organizations (Enterprise 2.0) behind the firewall. My professional attention has been shifting away from using Web content management systems, social publishing systems, and other collaboration tools on the Internet. I really think the next big advancements and challenges for web technologies will not be on the World Wide Web, but the less explored intranet ran by medium and larger size organizations.
In one form or another, I've been involved on both sides of the firewall in my organization. Ten years ago it was a huge challenge for organizations and businesses to figure out how best to utilize the Internet to meet their business needs. As challenging as I saw the Internet for my own organization, I'm convinced there are greater challenges on the intranet side of the house. For the most part, we all can see what the others are doing with their Internet Web servers, but few of us get to see what other organizations do with Enterprise 2.0 behind their own firewalls.
Starting with the new year, CMS Report, will be focusing on the challenges of using CMS and social software in the enterprise. I will personally be talking about using applications familiar to me such as SharePoint, Alfresco, Drupal, and mediaWiki on the intranet. I'm hoping others will bring into the discussion their own favorite open source and propriety applications for the Enterprise. Together, I hope for us to come up with some best practices of introducing and maintaining Web 2.0 in own organizations.
In the meantime, take a look at this YouTube video on how Best Buy uses Enterprise 2.0 to support not only their employee needs but also their business needs. Thanks to George Dearing for pointing out this video via his blog.
About this CMS Enthusiast
Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.
Comments
#1 Thanks for the story reference
Bryan-
Let me know if you'd like to discuss some of the enterprise 2.0 things we're working on at Telligent.
cheers,
george
#2 E 2.0 "Behind the firewall"
Bryan, at Connectbeam, we have implemented several of the F-100 enterprises, all of which are behind the firewall.
Please let me know if you would like any ROI or Best Practices information from our various experiences.
Happy Holidays. Chuck
#3 SharePoint document management and sollaboration solution
nSynergy SharePoint Document management and collaboration software architectures allow organisations to centralise and better manage all electronic information with its seamless integration of Microsoft SharePoint into the Microsoft Office suite of products in intranet, extranet and internet.
The ability to simply create and deploy extranets and portal sites allows these firms to build stronger relationships with clients and increase the productivity.
There is more information on this at nSynergy or please email to info@nsynergy.com if you want more information.
#4 Discussions Welcomed
George, Chuck, and Shirely:
Thanks for the quick replies. In the coming months as we talk about collaboration in the enterprise, I'd like to hear more on your thoughts. One of the weaknesses in my blog is the lack of discussion and familiarity of the propriety/commercial offerings when it comes to social software.
Anyone is welcomed to submit stories and links to other articles here at CMS Report. I prefer stories that promote discussion, perhaps offers personal perspective, and are not straight sales pitches/press releases.
-Bryan