by Martin White | Apr 11, 2017 | Collaboration, Digital workplace, Reviews
Your first reaction on seeing the title of this post was that you had no idea that there was such a discipline as meeting science. You would therefore be very surprised to find that this book runs to 790 pages, with 31 chapters written by 60 authors. The science of...
by Martin White | Apr 10, 2017 | Collaboration, Reviews
Based on a somewhat cursory search through Amazon there seem to be several hundred books currently available on the subject of collaboration. Virtually all of them fall into what I regard as the ‘my personal experience’ category. The author scales up what...
by Martin White | Jan 25, 2017 | General, Intranets, Reviews
The first thing that struck me as I scrolled through the 2017 Intranet Design Annual from the Nielsen Norman Group (all 490 pages) was the diversity of the organisations included this year. The featured intranets range from a small 150 employee tourism agency to two...
by Martin White | Jan 24, 2017 | General, Reviews, Search
It is very difficult to track down good case studies of intranet search implementations that when eight come along together it was well worth spending a couple of hours to read through them, They are published in the Nielsen Norman Group 2017 Intranet Design Annual. I...
by Martin White | Jan 3, 2017 | General, Reviews, Search
Over the vacation I reorganised my office, including adding a bookcase specifically for the 60 or so books I have on various aspects of information retrieval and search. In the process I updated the list of books on the Enterprise Search book website, highlighting...
by Martin White | Nov 23, 2016 | General, Intranets, Reviews
Intranet products have been around for over 20 years. Arguably the first was OrchidSoft, founded in Newcastle (UK) in 1994 and still in business today. One of the most challenging experiences of my career was installing an intranet product in Kuwait with the...
