Comments on: Real Intranet Manager bloggers: a rare species

By: Dorje McKinnon

Dorje McKinnon — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:54:58 +0000

Throwing my name into the ring as well
http://dorjem.blogspot.com
I run an intranet for a part of a division of a large US corporate, from New Zealand.
I also setup and am involved in the Kiwi Intranets online community (everyone is with an interest in Intranets is welcome to be a member)
http://kiwi.onlinegroups.net/groups/kiwi_intranets/
DorjeM

By: Samuel Driessen

Samuel Driessen — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:19:08 +0000

Great idea to collect Intranet bloggers in one place. Thanks! Jan van Veen says he’s going to start blogging too soon. I blog about intranet every now and then.

By: Jane McConnell

Jane McConnell — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:58:09 +0000

Hey Andrew – that’s great news. The Shell intranet is very interesting and (knowing you !!) I’m sure your blog will trigger lots of comments. Yes, you have till the end of January.

By: Andrew Fix

Andrew Fix — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:01:03 +0000

What’s the rule around new year’s resolutions, as this is on my list. Do I have until the end of the month or something ?
Stay tuned, I will have one by the end of the month to share insights on managing the Shell Intranet, I can’t guarantee it will be any good, but will give it a shot.
Happy new year Jane, chat soon.
Andrew

By: Shelley Cook

Shelley Cook — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:54:35 +0000

Shawn, you sound identical to me. I just came on board as our intranet manager 1 month before launch. I’m completely learning SharePoint under fire, never having touched it before now. I’d be interested in reading what you have to say as well.
This is a great point. I find so much information and opinion coming from consultants but rarely Intranet managers. Maybe because we are often so swamped we don’t have time to write it down? Poor excuse, I know.

By: Mark Morrell

Mark Morrell — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:02:33 +0000

Jane,
To adapt the words of that old song by the Scaffold (yes, I am showing my age) “Thank you very much for raising my blog’s profile, thank you very much, thank you very very much”.
I hope more intranet managers take the plunge and blog about their experiences. I’ve found it very liberating to share issues and realise I’m not alone with them even if I can’t solve them immediately.
‘Real intranet manager’ blogs balance nicely with yours. You can use your research and offer your expertise as a ‘thought leader’. We can show how it is being applied.
A very small thing but it’s 2 r’s and 2 l’s in morrell. I know where you got that spelling from you too!
Happy 2009 to you.
Mark

By: Jane McConnell

Jane McConnell — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:05:52 +0000

Hello Michael – You’re now on the list of blogging intranet managers! Your company is a very large one. Is there a lot of internal blogging?

By: Jane McConnell

Jane McConnell — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:04:33 +0000

Hi Shawn – Please do start a blog about your experiences using SharePoint. I’m sure you’ll have a lot of avid readers.
The software choices of the intranet managers for these external blogs probably does not reflect what their companies are using internally for blogs, but I don’t know for sure. Maybe some will read your comment and clarify!

By: Michael Hafner

Michael Hafner — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:24:21 +0000

I’m running my blog not that much covering day to day business, but addressing some basic questions dealing with my work with online media and social media.
After all, I´m mainly working with intranets, and I’m the intranet manager of Erste Group Bank.

By: Shawn Miller

Shawn Miller — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:53:02 +0000

I’m a new Intranet Manager, using SharePoint, which I do not have a great deal of experience with. I’m also looking for these types of resources and considering starting a blog about all of my experiences. Thank you Jane for starting this post. What caught my attention right away was that the 3 examples you included in your post are using .wordpress or .blogspot pages. Does that mean their companies aren’t utilizing blogging software? To me, that by itself says a great deal about many of the organizations today.