Posts Tagged ‘best practices’

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Janice James, one of Perficient’s experts in User Centered Design, forwarded to me an article about a new study on the state of intranet portals.  This study was conduct by Jakob Nielsen, who has been described as the “guru of web page usabililty”.  Overall, he has done  67 case studies to support the recommendations he […]

Welcome to part 1 of Mike Porter’s and my 12 part series on getting your portal solution to production quickly.  Each business day over the next two and a half weeks we will bring you real world approaches or best practices to help get your portal solution to production quickly.  Without any further delay, on […]

So it probably seems kind of odd that a portal and collaboration blog would blog about using a blog post for content marketing. In a way it almost seems crass. But hear me out, Tom Pisello mentions various ways to get the most bang for your buck which includes the use of content derivatives and […]

Measuring the effectiveness of a portal initiative has always been a long sought-after goal.   The real to measuring effectiveness is to get people to agree on what it means to be effective.  Is that number of page hits? length of time on the page? increases in order activity? Pradeep Behl at IBM published a white […]

A few months ago I wrote up this list and will begin to address ways social champions can address the 20 reasons NOT to collaborate. These are the good old days.  Just a new version of the good old days.  Remember how the internet was going to replace the person and the businesses (.com’s) that […]

We have shown you a variety of ways in which you can screw up your portal project.  Glenn Kline and I had fun documenting them.  Of course, we had less fun living through them or consoling clients who were living through them but time heals all wounds and now we can laugh about it.  We’d […]

Ajax is a good thing, right?    Well, not always. What Happened A financial company had a content based intranet and the implementer decided that absolutely everything should be done using Ajax.   The home page had about a dozen portlets on it.  Some were personalized but most simply displayed non personalized content which did not change […]

For all that I love portal and collaboration technology, I recognize there are time when you shouldn’t use it.  It can be heavy if it’s a one-off type application.  Portal can be difficult to implement if you are trying to recreate an entire application from scratch.  It can be really difficult and time consuming if […]

The job of portal developers are to develop for portal, right?  But what happens when they can’t develop? What Happened A major insurance company had a portal administrator who was adamant that nobody other than him could touch any of the environments in any type of administrative capacity, even basic portal administrator in a development […]

The job of portal developers are to develop for portal, right?  But what happens when they can’t develop? What Happened A major insurance company had a portal administrator who was adamant that nobody other than him could touch any of the environments in any type of administrative capacity, even basic portal administrator in a development […]

Terry Griffey posted a YouTube video on how to manage the resources and workload in a highly virtualized environment.   Within Perficient he’s well known as an all around bright guy who’s also really good at training people on a variety of complex concepts.   Any of  you who has seen virtual server sprawl and has not […]