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&lt;p&gt;There are many advantages of using Intranet software within your organization. By understanding how the organization can benefit from an Intranet, a business can better focus on selecting the best solution. Below are just 5 reasons that may be among the advantages most important to you: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Companies that adopt Intranet software will benefit from improved internal communication, especially when interacting with users in other locations. Different software products offer different communications tools and selecting the right Intranet will extend the users reach within the organization.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/u4khkX0LjX4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/69-5-reasons-to-introduce-intranet-software-to-your-organization.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Social Networking for Company Intranets</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/WowOY8KHv9g/62-social-networking-for-company-intranets.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><author>seo@webmedia-solutions.com (Admin)</author><pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/62-social-networking-for-company-intranets.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;Social Networking for Company Intranets - Graduates Don't Just Want It, they Expect It&lt;/h1&gt;
M2 Presswire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Earlier on, this blog features 2 articles that make reference to the growing importance of social networking in company Intranets.  In this article we see that a UK survey enforces this notion and in fact comes up with findings that Intranet social networking may be more of a necessity than a nice-to-have. For more information please refer to &lt;a href="http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/60-intranets-as-social-networks.html" title="Intranets as Social Networks"&gt;Intranets as Social Networks&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/61-the-worlds-top-intranets-put-social-networking-and-collaboration-center-stage.html" title="Social networking on wolrd's best Intranets"&gt;World's Best Intranets Give High Regard to Social Networking and Collaboration&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/WowOY8KHv9g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/62-social-networking-for-company-intranets.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>How an Intranet can save your business money$$</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/DWQTHKkmutQ/133-how-can-an-intranet-save-you-money.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><author>seo@webmedia-solutions.com (Admin)</author><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/133-how-can-an-intranet-save-you-money.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;How can an Intranet save you money$$?&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Basic ROI calculation of Intranet benefits: How does OfficeAbility Intranet help customers to save money?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is too common that companies do not know how to go about calculating cost:benefits that could be realized by introducing an Intranet. One reason for this is that the benefits are often seen as being intangible and calculations complex.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.officeability.com/images/stories/dollar%20sign.jpg" alt="Intranets create value and save money" title="Strong Intranets create high value" class="caption" height="176" width="176" align="right" /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most often people using an Intranet see the benefits as simply being obvious; or the complete opposite when referring to outdated technologies and under-utilized Intranets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One example of how Intranet value can be calculated is by using simple ROI calculation. In the current economic times, it is a necessity that technology investment should either save or make customers money. Modern Intranets are regarded as having high value, where benefits greatly outweigh the cost. This is because of time and effort saved in finding information, reducing printing/distribution, reducing errors, reducing travel requirements, and other measures that can be calculated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/DWQTHKkmutQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/133-how-can-an-intranet-save-you-money.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Intranets as Social Networks</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/uGo53fcLV9Q/60-intranets-as-social-networks.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><author>seo@webmedia-solutions.com (Admin)</author><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/60-intranets-as-social-networks.html</guid><description>&lt;h1 class="doctextwrap"&gt;Intranets as Social Networks&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p class="doctextwrap"&gt;&lt;img style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;" src="http://www.officeability.com/images/stories/social-networking2.jpg" class="imgfltright" alt="Social Networking via Intranet" title="Social Networking via Intranet" width="275" align="right" border="0" height="181" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="doctextwrap"&gt;When we first began the design of Office Ability Intranet software about 3 years ago, the design team set out to discover the most important features used by a variety of organizations and made available on the world's top Intranets. We studied many sources of information during our research, including, published data, interview research, survey information, and published reports from the Nielsen Norman Group, the most rigorous Intranet survey conducted and a wealth of information from the business Intranet community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/uGo53fcLV9Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/60-intranets-as-social-networks.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Company Intranets Keep Employees on the Same Page</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/22WToc6cksM/59-company-intranets-keep-employees-on-the-same-page.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><author>seo@webmedia-solutions.com (Admin)</author><pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/59-company-intranets-keep-employees-on-the-same-page.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;Company Intranets Keep Employees on the Same Page&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Adapted from original article by Mie-Yun Lee&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;If you want to share a document company-wide, do you e-mail it to everyone? Perhaps you make dozens of paper copies instead, giving one to each employee and filing the extras away. Or maybe you save a master in one of the various shared directories on your company network and hope that people will be able to find it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/22WToc6cksM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/59-company-intranets-keep-employees-on-the-same-page.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Intranet Launch – Roll-out Suggestions</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/M4GdRu0HAl4/94-intranet-launch-office-ability-roll-out-.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/94-intranet-launch-office-ability-roll-out-.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;Intranet Launch – Considerations for OfficeAbility Roll-out&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.officeability.com/images/stories/intranet-icon.png" alt="OfficeAbility Intranet Launch" title="OfficeAbility Intranet Launch" height="169" width="169" /&gt;An effective Intranet launch will affect both the short-term acceptance and the long-term success of your Intranet. There are a number of key considerations, as you contemplate your own Intranet launch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While these points are only meant as helpful suggestions, the best results will arise when an Intranet launch is approached as a cohesive effort, usually championed by a dedicated group or committee. The following points are provided as a starting point; as food-for-thought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/M4GdRu0HAl4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/94-intranet-launch-office-ability-roll-out-.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Intranet Content Administration - The Middle Ground</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/dYVzS_XYstM/95-intranet-content-administration.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/95-intranet-content-administration.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;Intranet Content Administration - The Middle Ground&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At some point during an Intranet planning process, the question of how to administer and who will administer the content of an&lt;img style="float: right;" src="http://www.officeability.com/images/stories/intranet-content-image.jpg" alt="Intranet content administration" title="Intranet content administration" /&gt; Intranet must be dealt with. An Intranet is an important information receptacle, full of the thoughts and ideas that help form the culture and institutional memory of the organization; so someone needs to be in control... right? Or perhaps not right at all? &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Opinions on the issue of control of content within an Intranet likely cover the entire political spectrum; some would hand the power to the people and while others will lean more towards the authoritarian persuasion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/dYVzS_XYstM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/95-intranet-content-administration.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>OfficeAbility Has Migrated to Amazon Web Services</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/-JLAbYmoPh8/140-officeability-has-migrated-to-amazon-web-services.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><author>ko@webmedia-solutions.com (maithai)</author><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/140-officeability-has-migrated-to-amazon-web-services.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;OfficeAbility Has Migrated to Amazon Web Services&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mai Thai Enterprises Co., Ltd., the developers of OfficeAbility Intranet Software, is pleased to announce that OfficeAbility Intranet is now being delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) via Amazon Web Services.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.officeability.com/images/stories/aws%20logo.bmp" alt="Amazon Web Services logo" align="right" /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OfficeAbility, as part of a transition to full cloud deployment via Amazon Web Services (AWS), has now moved all Intranet customer accounts over to Amazon.&amp;nbsp; AWS is the world's leading provider of cloud services such as elastic cloud computing (EC2),&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are many advantages that the move to Amazon cloud will provide for our customers.&amp;nbsp; Dynamic provisioning means that Intranet sites will be deployed on-demand, taking advantage of fully scalable and often virtualized resources. Another main advantage is the availability of ‘elastic’ services, load balancing, and sharing of computing resources.&amp;nbsp; This ensures that OfficeAbility Intranet customers will enjoy optimal site performance regardless of peak-usage scenarios.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/-JLAbYmoPh8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/140-officeability-has-migrated-to-amazon-web-services.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>The New Intranet - Social Media Meets the Enterprise</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/pZBJEGhd-GA/65-the-new-intranet-social-media-meets-the-enterprise.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/65-the-new-intranet-social-media-meets-the-enterprise.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;The New Intranet - Social Media Meets the Enterprise&lt;/h1&gt;
Marlon McMartin, MBA - Managing Director, Office Ability&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Is it now time for the enterprise to integrate social collaboration as a important part of the Company Intranet? We think it the perfect time; in fact, there is a great opportunity lost to businesses that do not embrace the Web 2.0 technologies that are an enormous part of our every day lives. Technology has reshaped the way we network and communicate, yet is still to be effectively utilized by the large majority of businesses.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/pZBJEGhd-GA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/65-the-new-intranet-social-media-meets-the-enterprise.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Small Business Intranet - Can your Small Business Benefit?</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/officeability/~3/88MMZMlfWgM/91-small-business-intranet.html</link><category>Intranet Blog</category><author>seo@webmedia-solutions.com (Admin)</author><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/91-small-business-intranet.html</guid><description>&lt;h1&gt;Intranets for the Small Business - Can Your Small Business Benefit?&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;C. Sumner Winship, Marketing Manager, Office Ability&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Advice for the New Year... small businesses can enjoy all the advantages, and benefits, of an office Intranet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.officeability.com/images/stories/small-office-image-resized.jpg" class="fltrt" alt="Small Business Intranet" title="Introduce Intranet to your small business" align="right" border="0" /&gt;Small business owners and human resources staff alike may be scratching their heads at the thought of purchasing an intranet.&amp;nbsp; ‘We have less than 50 staff, is that really enough to justify an Intranet?&amp;nbsp; What can we gain by implementing an Intranet for our small organization?? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer to the first of these questions is quite simply, yes; you will almost certainly see tangible benefit in introducing an intranet solution.&amp;nbsp; The second answer, simply put, is that an Intranet is sure to help increase efficiency and enhance intra-office communication. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/officeability/~4/88MMZMlfWgM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.officeability.com/blog/35-intranet-blog/91-small-business-intranet.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

