John Brunswick

Search Usability Part II – Why Search and Tasty are Similar

January 20, 2011 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Intranet, Search, Usability

Much like "tasty", search is a term that broadly describes the act or capability to locate information. Much like tasty, it can be fulfilled through a variety of means. Some people enjoy steak, others Thai food or Italian. Tens of times per day we sit in front of a web browser concentrating on what to enter into a text box in an effort to locate content that providing solutions to problems or...

Be an Effective E2.0 Architect – Know your Inhabitants

November 13, 2010 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Intranet

A friend of mine is an architect who designs homes. His design process begins by gaining an understand of the daily activities of the inhabitants. From the characteristics and activities he is able to build a home custom tailored to address his clients needs. You can have the best building materials in the world, but if you don't architect your solution to meet the...

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Enterprise 2.0 Interactivity Spectrum – Portal, Content or Both?

September 25, 2010 | Enterprise Portal, Extranet, InfotechAligned, Intranet, Web 2.0

“Should we use a portal or content management system to launch our x, y or z project?” is one of the most common questions heard from from organizations embarking on Enterprise 2.0 projects. It is a complex, critical debate that will has significant implications for future agility and capabilities that IT organizations will be able to deliver to their business sponsors. There is no...

Conquering Enterprise Information Overload with E2.0

June 23, 2010 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Enterprise Portal, Intranet, Personalization, Relevancy

We generate massive amounts of content within our organizations. The pace of this production will only continue to increase – forcing us to devote huge amounts of time searching, cataloging and saving links to critical information for our job roles. Now multiply this effort by the number of people in your organization. In order to get our work done we have all had to become enterprise...

You Don’t Want Facebook for the Enterprise

June 14, 2010 | AIIM Enterprise 2.0 Experts, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Portal, Intranet, Personalization, Productivity, Relevancy

acebook has no place in the enterprise. As enterprise social technologies first arrived in the workplace they needed a way to express what they did. At that time the most direct analogy was to exclaim that the tools were “Facebook for the Enterprise”. A more appropriate analogy is needed. For our organizations to succeed we want a “LinkedIn for the Enterprise”. A quick...