Keeping Up:
Sites to Consider
Watching
http://www.capterra.com
The Enterprise
Software Center describes itself as the first to develop an “online hub,
which combines community, content, and commerce for the enterprise software
market.” It is a great starting point for links to vendors and quality
articles on any aspect relating to portals.
http://www.traffick.com/default.asp
Traffick: The
Guide to Portals includes e-mail updates from the Traffick Weekly Newsletter;
Traffick Directory of annotated links, plus reviews and comparisons of
public portals.
http://www.aboutportals.com/aboutportals/technology/vortals_and_eip.html
AboutPortals.com
features “Vortals and EIPs: B2B Intelligence for Vertical Markets,” with
a handy list of links to recent articles on vertical portals and EIPs.
http://argus-inc.com/iaguide/index.shtml
The Information
Architecture Guide, with resources related to the topic, including references
to books, articles, and Web sites. Created by Argus Associates, an information
architecture consulting firm that “applies principles of library and information
science to design environments that enable people to find and manage information
more successfully.”
http://www.brint.com/members/online/200503/kmebiz.pdf
“Knowledge Management
for E-Business Performance,” by Yogesh Malhotra in Information Strategy,
The Executive’s Journal, v 16(4), Summer 2000, pp. 5-16.
http://corporate.yahoo.com/
Worth having a
look at for their customizable EIP.
http://www.sveiby.com.au/BookContents.html
Carl Sveiby’s
Web site with invaluable articles and links, including one to “Beyond Knowledge
Management: New Ways to Work and Learn,” a report by the Conference Board
featuring case stories and experiences from 12 pioneering companies.
http://www.kmworld.com
KMWorld Magazine
Online, with weekly news updates.
To Manage Site Quality:
Here are two sites
recently brought to our attention for checking site quality:
Net Mechanic
[http://www.netmechanic.com],
which takes any Web site, page, or Web product and tells you how it will
work in various browsers and browser versions. It also has a free check-up
facility and can test up to 400 pages for:
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Link Check—to find
dead links
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HTML Check— to spot
HTML errors
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Browser Compatibility
Check— to find unsupported HTML tags
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Load Time Check— to
find slow pages
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Spell Check— to catch
spelling errors
Bookmarklets [http://www.bookmarklets.com],
which, for free, checks links and other items using a small piece of JavaScript
that is stored as a bookmark. No downloads or installed software is required.
Here’s their blurb: “Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf
and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer Web browsers. Bookmarklets
are free. Bookmarklets allow you to:
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Modify the way you
see someone else’s Web page
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Extract data from
a Web page
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Search more quickly,
and in ways not possible with a search engine
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Navigate in new ways”
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