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Well someone did:

This is my personal favourite intranet secret. You see, those lovely peeps at ThoughtFarmer have created a new blog called Intranet Secrets, where you can anonymously post your deepest, darkest secrets about your company’s intranet. I have posted one of my own… but I’m not telling you which one is mine! If your company has done something silly, useless or downright stupid with your intranet, why not get it off your chest. You will feel better knowing others can finally point and laugh along with you.

Random Disclaimer: I’m not paid by or associated with ThoughtFarmer, but I sure do recommend their product, having used it myself twice, both as a client and as a consultant. It’s pretty freaking awesome, if I do say so myself.

We just launched our new structured wiki Intranet at NESTA, and I can’t wait to see how this new approach works for the staff in a small/med public sector organisation such as ours. Here’s a post I wrote on the NESTA blogs about it:

I think the structured wiki approach is a great way of introducing organisations to the concepts of the social web – in theory, providing the best of both worlds: the empowerment and collaborative elements of wikis, with the order and familiarity of traditional content-managed systems. In my mind, this caters for both types of users: the freeform searchers & the more traditional navigators. It reduces the fear of chaos, while still providing a great deal of the flexibility and tools common in other ’social web’ environments…

Read the full post & comment here on the Making Innovation Flourish blog >>