http://www.biomedsearch.com

The site is free, and perhaps the most comprehensive biomedical site on the web. It has all PubMed and MedLine documents, plus mililons more (often in full text).

It also has account features such as portfolios to save documents, the ability to share documents (and comment on them) between users, and set up automatic alerts.

I just wanted to draw a growing connection between the old intranet and the new one, made up imho exactly by the new collaborative paradigm.

Thanks for your amazing posts

I like how you dissected the Intranet into the 4 areas of content, communication, activities, and collaboration.

And yes, it’s also depends on the business needs and goal.

I guess I was thinking from my point of view working in a global company with 5000-10,000 people

Something like Jive could not replace our Intranet, as we need profile pages for business units, etc as you see on traditional Intranets. But these traditional intranets do not offer communities, networking, collaboration.
It would be good if this was part of the Intranet, rather than another product…and as you say Jive SBS 4 is showing the step forward with integration into perhaps a tool like an Intranet.

Basically I envision our Intranet as being a place for information, and profiles for business units, but in a web 2.0 ways…and then also functions for social networks, and collaboration (groups, communities)…that’s why I like the idea of Thoughfarmer

Many thanks and looking forward to your answer.

Best,
Emanuele

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Hi John,
I was lucky enough to have personally worked on a number of Intranet
2.0 projects or into projects to strategically evolve the Intranet in
order to make it more relevant both to the business and the people.

Based on my own experience, the gap between old style Intranet and
Intranet 2.0 can be better imagined as a continuum with varied mixes
of 4 basic ingredients: content, communication, activities,
collaboration.

The social network is roughly connected to the last part but it could
also be the overall organizing principle for the entire intranet where
contents, company to employes communication, employees to employees
communication and self service functionalities can be embedded.

I think the right mix really depends from the business goals and the
people needs for which the Intranet 2.0 is designed. In some cases a
social network with basic document sharing and content management
capabilities will make it. Other times a full fledged and heavy
intranet 1.0 with strong process integration, workflows and minimum
social functionalities is much better.

To this goal Jive SBS 4.0 can now be integrated with content and
document management suites (Sharepoint being an example) and the same
could be said about Lotus Connections if you add Quickr and Websphere
Portal.

I think Oracle, IBM and Microsoft (and ThoughtFarmer and Liferay
Social Office) are the best suited to generally support an Intranet
2.0 project.

—
Emanuele Quintarelli

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Thanks for writing about it

Yes, per Bill Ives “The irony of enterprise 2.0 is that you actually get more control because the free form nature of the tools allow the business people to decide on where structure occurs, not the people who make the software.” But…there is micro and macro structure (and all sorts of stuff in-between. The technologies themselves are only the possibilities to address either, they are NOT either of these. There is still a need for someone (or a collective effort) to set up the macro-level structure that is specific to the business (this is the BIGGEST point of failure for almost every SharePoint implementation that is done).