Intranet Portals Get Streamlined

An overview of the state of intranet portals ...

"An analysis of intranet portals found slimmer information architectures and a renewed emphasis on fresh content and useful applications. Past findings, including those on role-based personalization, were confirmed.

It's been almost three years since our last project assessing the usability of intranet portals. This is a good time to take a fresh look at portal design, since three years is also the average time between intranet redesigns.

To find out what's working now, we analyzed a new series of portal projects and compared them with the conclusions from the previous round.

In the larger scheme of things, three years is not much time, so it's not surprising that all of the findings from our initial portal project still hold. In fact, none of the forty-five best practices documented in the report's first edition have changed. Yes, we've gained many new insights, but what was good three years ago continues to be good today."   continued ...   (Via Alertbox)

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