It’s at that point that I KNOW a lie is about to arrive…

Great article, Wedge!

Dave

My organization is spread over some 30 countries worldwide and since 2006 we have a global intranet with decentral content management (local publishers). Also, some 2 years ago we started to roll out social media (blogs, yammer, wikis, videos, social bookmarking and sharepoint department and project sites).

What we’ve seen:
- There was never anything published which was inappropriate
- Publishers need insight in how their audience looks at their web pages, as they are mostly inexperienced web publishers
- They also need info abt how to make their information findable using search keywords and tags
- Publishers get an email reminder every month with a link to a tool which lists links to pages which have not been changed in 12 months, allowing them to check if the content is still valid and up-to-date
- People don’t read, so no matter how often you communicate how tos in writing, the information will not come across. Use the momentum of the introduction of the intranet to communicate the essentials (in a short list, I agree with those comments above)
- In how far is sharing information and expertise part of your company culture? It needs to be supported by management (eg reward required behaviour), else it won’t work and you’ll end up with a lot of people saying they don’t have time for that

As global intranet manager you’ll not be able to monitor everything as time goes by and the quantity of content grows. That’s why we have appointed a so-called location manager who is responsible for the content structure and training of local publishers in each country. That’s also the person who could get people into a room to get your message across.

Should you require more detailed information, please contact me.

Good luck

thanks for letting everyone know that more pieces of work come under copyright, namely the code:

• HTML
• CSS
• javascript.

I hope I haven’t misled anyone; a website is not a single ‘work’ but is made up of several different pieces of work; thanks for reminding everyone about the code works.

I don’t think it’s misleading and unless I’m reading Cian’s comment above wrongly, I think the comment *and* Wedge’s article are actually saying the same thing.

The point is that a single copyright statement for a whole site doesn’t do the job, and that each individual ‘work’, including any handwritten code etc, should have it’s own copyright statement.

So I imagine my own website should have copyright for the ‘theme’, copyright for the additional code and tweaks my web designer (Wedge) created, and copyright for the content I produce myself. On top of that I would need to consider the individual copyrights of any outside content I might include.

I may be wrong, but that makes sense to me.

bit.ly/cQNeoY

Many website creators will have developed original javascript, css, or html code to address their needs. The fact that this code is easily accessible to anyone with a browser does bit mean they are entitled to use it without permission of the owner.

Unfortunately, too few people in my opinion take the necessary steps to protect their work; even the use of a simple copyright notice has value.

There’s plenty of info about this subject, a nice summary is at http://www.digiprove.com/how_international_copyright_works.aspx