Who’s playing in the Intranet online space?

July 25, 2009 | Comments(9), | Categories: Groups & Networks |

It’s a tie! At last, there are as many blogs by intranet managers as by intranet consultants. Bravo!

I just redid my lists of intranet bloggers and online groups and divided them into 3 categories:

Intranet managers, Intranet blogs (consultancies) and Intranet Groups Online.

Intranet Managers

In alphabetical order…

  1. Andrew Fix, Coming out of my Shell
  2. Dorjem, Intranet Overseer. Helping intranet teams know more about the resources available to them
  3. e24 Intranätgruppen, Jesper Bylund. Intranet manager for Malmo city intranet. Blog in Swedish
  4. infoarch , About my experiences as an information architectfrom Samuel Driessen, information architect at Océ-Venlo
  5. Injela, Frank Hamm, intranet manager, Aareal Bank AG. In German
  6. Mark Morrell, Intranet manager at BT. Blog on “an insight into how intranets are managed”
  7. Mashazine, Michael Hafner (Erste Bank Group)
  8. Social Intranet: life in the trenches, Patrick Sikes, HSN (the Home Shopping Network) in St Petersburg, Florida
  9. TeCoMan, Fabrice Poiraud-Lambert. In French. About “collaboration électronique au service de l’agilité des organisations”
  10. Think Intranet, Strategic intranet management, by Abigail Lewis-Bowen, Johnson & Johnson
  11. Wheat and Chaff , Peter Richards

Intranet or intranet-related consultancy blogs

  1. AlexManchester
  2. Column Two, James Robertson
  3. Intranet Management,  Giacomo Mason (in Italian)
  4. Globally local…locally global, Jane McConnell
  5. Intranet Blog, Toby Ward,
  6. Intranet Experience, Sean R. Nicholson.
  7. Intranet Focus Martin White
  8. Intranet Life (IBF)
  9. Intranet Matters, Stephan Schillerwein.
  10. Intraskope (internal communication, some posts related to intranets)
  11. Jboye Blog (many posts are intranet-related)
  12. Michael Sampson: Currents (collaboration)
  13. Worldwide Intranet Challenge, Andrew Wright

Intranet Groups Online

I’d like to give special recognition to Dorje McKinnon, a “real intranet manager” who finds the time and energy to facilitate an online group. I don’t know of other cases like Dorje!

  1. Intranet Benchmarking Forum, Linked in group managed by the Intranet Benchmarking Forum. Approval required to join.
  2. Intranet Global Forum, Facebook group created by Toby Ward. Open to anyone interested in intranets.
  3. Intranet Professionals, Linked in group created by Anne Mitchell. Open to all intranet professionals.
  4. Kiwi Intranets, An Online Group for people that reside in New Zealand who manage or maintain intranets. Anyone is welcome to join. Founder Dorje McKinnon.
  5. NetJMC&Co, Linked in group created by Jane McConnell. Dedicated to intranet managers. Approval required to join.

You can find permanent links in the lists in the left column of this blog.

Please repost, link to or tweet about this list to help give all these people the coverage they deserve!

Get in touch if you have a blog or group that falls into one of these categories, and I’ll add you to the list. If you are listed above, and want to change how I described you, let me know!

9 Responses to “Who’s playing in the Intranet online space?”

  1. Brad Bellaver Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    Jane,
    Thanks so much for this post. I great to have one source for all intranet-related blogs in the world.

  2. Giacomo Mason Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    Ehm…
    http://www.intranetmanagement.it
    in semi automatic translation
    http://www.intranetmanagement.it/en/

  3. Peter Richards Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Thanks for including me in your list Jane. It is flattering to be included with so many quality blogs.

  4. INJELEA Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 9:54 am

    Intranet-Blogs und Intranet-Gruppen

    Jane McConnell hat auf ihrem Blog Globally local – locally global eine Liste von Blogs und Gruppen rund um das Thema Intranet verffentlicht. Jane hat die Liste gegliedert in
    Intranet-Manager (11 Eintrge, darunter ic…

  5. Alex Manchester Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Thanks for the call out, Jane, much appreciated. And there’s some great blogs in here from practitioners that I haven’t read before. :-)

  6. Ricardo Saldanha Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    Jane,
    In Portuguese, from Brazil, we have:
    Intranet Column at site Webinsider – the first in Brazil, since 2002
    http://webinsider.uol.com.br/index.php/author/ricardo-saldanha/
    WI Intranet – e-mail list, started in 2002, with 800 subscriptors nowadays
    http://wi.intranetportal.com.br/mailman/listinfo/wi_intranet
    Intranet Portal – site (e-magazine) founded at 2004
    http://www.intranetportal.com.br
    Intranet Portal Award – created on 2008, second edition on going
    http://www.premiointranetportal.com.br
    See also the 2008 winners book: http://clubedeautores.com.br/book/1664–Premio_Intranet_Portal_28
    Intranet Portal Institute – non-profit, non-governamental association, founded this year
    http://www.intranetportal.org.br
    My blog, “Intra 2.0″, also: http://ricardosaldanha.wordpress.com
    I have been working as a intranet and corporate portal specialist for the last (10) years…
    Tks
    Ricardo Saldanha
    Intranet Portal Institute – President
    Brazil

  7. Michael Sampson Says:
    July 28th, 2009 at 7:04 am

    Thanks for the mention Jane … much appreciated. M.

  8. Samuel Driessen Says:
    July 28th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

    Thanks for putting me on the list. I’m honored.

  9. Patrick Says:
    July 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Thanks for the post Jane! This might get me off my rear and get some more posts in the works… Patrick

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