Join Sapient and Enbridge, a leading energy distributor, as they share details of a newly implemented enterprise portal that drives over 80% of Enbridgeís global workforce to the site every day. Built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform, Enbridge's portal utilizes user-centric design, enhanced website navigation and assigned leadership roles to help promote a sense of community within Enbridgeís global workforce and provide employees with the ability to quickly find the information they need to complete their jobs. This talk focuses on the best practices used during the successful portal implementation.

This session is a practical guide for creating and sustaining networks at work and around the world.  It is filled with tips, techniques and tales of successful implementations.

Our speaker, a digital video pioneer who started an internal user-generated web video channel at Wells Fargo's Wholesale Bank, presents 10 inexpensive ways to use web video in your organization.  Find out how you can use low-cost, original, employee-created video inside the firewall to enliven internal communications. Use videos for executive messaging, company news, competitive intelligence, product road maps, new product intros, new hire orientation, finance reports, corporate responsibility, and more. You can start a video publishers network inside your company using a $100 point-and-shoot camcorder. Find out how.

Learn what taxonomy tools are out there, how they function, how they integrate with search and content management systems and the ways that a tool can help improve the quality of the taxonomy while demonstrating a solid return on investment.

This session uses case studies to illustrate techniques for improving intranet usage and performance as well as the role of “business persona advocates.”

Often enterprises find their expensive and complex tools lead to less than satisfactory results. Poor enterprise search capabilities leave users struggling to find the information they need to solve problems and perform their jobs.  This session guides audience members to improved search strategy and integration through the speaker's expertise in search analysis and technology spanning a variety of industries.

Based on a recent survey at the Enterprise 2.0 conference (filled with early adopters and social software keeners), this session illustrates the huge opportunity to make the average intranet more democratic and collaborative. Hear survey results and get lots of ideas for your intranet.