Intranet Professional
Volume 4 • Number 6
November/December 2001

Keeping Up
Sites to Consider Watching
 

Traffick: The Portal Portal
http://www.traffick.com
Covers trends and industry news regarding portals, Web search engines, and navigation. Check out its newsfeeds on portals, vortals, etc. [http://www.traffick.com/newsfeeds.asp] or keep current by subscribing to Traffick Weekly by sending a blank e-mail to traffickweekly-subscribe@topica.com.

Intranet Journal: Building the Corporate Enterprise, now incorporating Intranet Design Magazine
http://intranetjournal.com
This is one of those sites that combines industry news with views from people like David Weinberger [http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200109/ib_09_19_01a.html], to case studies of "Real World Intranets" [http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200109/cs_09_05_01a.html]. There are some worthwhile "how-to" sections, as well as overview 
articles like Toby Ward's "Intranet Insight: Five Winning Intranet Characteristics" [http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200109/in_09_19_01a.html].

Ward has also completed a white paper on intranet ROI, available from the article. 

Knowledge Management News 
http://www.kmnews.com
Brad Hoyt compiles a newsletter that abstracts relevant articles and books, plus provides Web links, upcoming events and a chart of KM technology and tools. 

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox 
http://www.useit.com/alertbox
This is Nielsen's biweekly column on Web usability.
 

White Papers & Thought-Provoking Articles

Up the (E)Organization!: Strategy & Business
by Booz-Allen & Hamilton
http://www.strategy-business.com/strategy/00106/
Although this article isn't new, it is still one of the few that considers a workable organizational model for leveraging collective and individual knowledge. 

Plumtree Software Inc.
http: //www.plumtree.com
This site offers a wealth of white papers, technical papers, and allows you to demo its corporate portal. White papers, at http://www.plumtree.com/Webforms/MoreInfoFormTemplate.asp?formkey=14, include ROI White Paper, Enterprise Class Gadget Framework White Paper, Corporate Portal Survey White Paper, and others.

NewsEdge Corporation
http://www.newsedge.com
This site is also offering useful white papers. For a copy of "Taxonomies: The Value of Organized Business Knowledge," by J.V. Bryar of NewsEdge Editorial Services, either complete the "Contact Us" questionnaire on the NewsEdge Web site at http://www.newsedge.com/valueofknowedge.asp, or call 800.255.3343.

KMWorld
http://www.kmworld.com
KMWorld has enhanced its news coverage and articles with a full publication of white papers on best practices at http://www.kmworld.com/publications/whitepapers. Papers focus on enterprise content management, KM, portals, and relationship management.
 
 

Contents Intranet Professional Home