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I just wanted to write a post about the three hours it took me to teach a colleague how to publish videos on the intranet (and that only covers half of the work), and about that I’m looking forward to calculating a business case for the new solution we’ve been discussing for more then a year.

This morning, I got the amazing news: My project has been approved by the management board. We will build a new intranet. I started to work on the first proposals in November 2007  – so that were really really long discussions.

Now it’s signed; the main requirements we want to meet are:

• build a portal that’s accessible for everybody from every country we’re operating in
• introduce publication processes that talk with one voice to everybody (same content, same time, all audiences)
• introduce permission management and closed usergroups where necessary
• introduce group-personalisation to create different views on the content for different audiences
• enhance the corporate directory towards an enterprise network
• carefully introduce well planned blogs and microblogs with attractive authors
• provide wikis as collaboration-, documentation and knowledgemanagement tools (knowledgemanagement projects are running in parallel)
• use tags as additional navigation- and categorisation tools, introduce rss for easier and for flexible customization
• support and train employees especially with increasing their media literacy

Detailed planning will continue now, I will keep posting and I’m looking forward to comments and discussions.

Productplanner.com – an online process design facilitator

Productplanner.com is a great service. Maybe it’s not a fully flavoured design tool yet, but it does provide good support for many basic steps in interaction planning. It allows you to combine the most common steps that every online product has to perform, split into several usecases.

The visualization is nice; it allows you show overviews (that tell you how many steps are in that process) and details. Great add ons would be the possibility to attach documents to the single steps or to add more descriptions.

I plan to use it to prepare some standard processes that I need always and always again – productplanner should allow me to have them with me whereever there is an online connection, and to edit them without anything else then a browser.

A nice benefit besides that could be the public process library: watch and compare processes others have designed.

I’m curious if that service will take off and in which direction it will develop. And I support everything that fosters some process-oriented focus in online design and product development – everythingh else is just plain scribbling.

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