This article below was written by our guest author, Wedge, and is reproduced from his blog with his permission.

Perhaps not everyone has the right / permission to publish articles on your intranet. It’s likely that a percentage of your workforce are able to contribute directly, but a larger percentage can only contribute indirectly (perhaps through comments or updates).

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I know that it’s traditional to save these types of predictions for the turn of the year but to avoid competing with the year-end deluge of fortune tellers, I thought I’d share my predictions now.

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If you sell stuff direct through your website there’s an obvious metric that you and your boss will be obsessed about: revenue. Having revenue as your metric gives you a big, single focus when it comes to improving your site. There are all sorts of things you can do: you can optimises your checkout process to make it as quick and easy as possible; you can test various product combinations and hope to increase the size of the shopping basket; you can improve the descriptions of your products. The list is endless and there are loads of helpful articles all over the web to guide you on what to do. Read on…

Unless you’ve been lost in the jungle for the duration of the Naughties, you’ll have noticed the huge impact that social media has had on everyday life, from statuses about what our friends have eaten for dinner, to tweets breaking new news first.

Without a doubt, this change in social communication in our personal routines has also impacted how we communicate in a work environment.  New ways of communicating with colleagues have emerged, making internal comms simpler, easier and more diverse than ever before.

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Inspired by the simplity of implementing a menu of options that completes the sentence ‘I need to…’, we worked in partnership with our client to introduce this simple and intuitive tool to their intranet architecture as part of their wider internal communications strategy.
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Eager to get things moving quickly, it’s always tempting to dive into a new web project head first. After all, you’ve conceived the idea for your site and probably know the project better than anyone else. But we advocate a more disciplined approach which ensures you build a site that delivers against its objectives and will save you time and money in the long run. Check out our SlideShare presentation on information architecture. Read on…

With the Google Chrome OS coming out later this year, “working in the cloud” is becoming a serious option for many private users looking to manage documents, images, and everything else from any computer with internet access.

While this may be an option for the private user, what about the big-money spenders – the businesses? Can cloud computing, like Google Docs, make real time collaboration on documents effortless not only within your own organisation, but also with clients and customers? What about governance, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, security? Can Google as the more cost-efficient service beat the services SharePoint offers?

As often within the IT industry, the answer is not simply black or white, but rather depends on where you stand. Read on…

We've learned from our work with SharePoint for various medical devices clients that creating "pretty" functionality means thinking quite a long way past "Out of the box" and applying some "outside of the box" approaches. Content Formula have developed several good looking and interactive applications using a combination of Flash, JQuery and HTML/CSS. None of these required any SharePoint development, instead using standard SharePoint features and some creativity from our developers! Because of this, they cost our clients a lot less to develop than if we'd used the in-house development team.

This is just a little taste of the sort of things you can create with some good SharePoint knowledge, lateral thinking and just a dash of wizardry. Read on...

Most intranets are largely static sites. On its own, an intranet is essentially a shared drive, serving up centrally stored documents alongside internal articles or communications. Some organisations use words such as “communication hubs” to describe them, but for the most part that communication is one-way.

These days, however, an intranet really can be a hub for your company. The intranet portal now closely mirrors employees’ expectations of world wide web functionality. Systems such as Microsoft SharePoint allow users to communicate with each other and collaborate, much as they would using social media tools such as blogging, Facebook and Twitter.

There are a number of capabilities that you can implement relatively easily, with SharePoint in particular making many of them available as standard.

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SharePoint 2010 is in beta testing, with a probable release date somewhere in Q4 this year. In the new release of the collaboration platform, emphasis seems to be placed on breaking out the roles of people involved in the production of a SharePoint intranet, and the access to resources as needed by people in those roles.

SharePoint 2010 looks to be the biggest update in the Microsoft Office family this year, as all communications so far indicate that other Office applications will only undergo minor tweaks.

So what are the big changes for SharePoint?

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