Global Intranets Survey out now

Jane McConnell's Global Intranets Survey is out. Jane has also just released the free 'Trends' summary of her larger Survey.

As part of the Trends summary she provides the table of contents for the Global Intranet Survey - so I took the liberty of analysing the Table of contents to see which topics she gave most pages to [see the image above]. I realise this isn't very a scientific way of looking at the survey - there is a huge wealth of useful information in it but it was kind of fun so I thought I'd share it with you. Notably, though there are a number of graphs in each section, the quotes throughout make for some very insightful reading particularly in the SharePoint 2007 appendix.

As one of the peer reviewer's for the Survey this year I've been looking at a copy for a while now and I like it.

The survey is well worth purchasing because it can provide a lot of support for intranet business cases and justification. It is also good for helping you asses changes currently impacting intranets, with respect to your own intranet. Another nice touch is that this year the design and layout of the report is very pleasant, which makes the whole thing much easier to go through and aids comprehension.

If you want a taste of the survey results Jane has just released her 'trends' summary of the survey, which she provides to the intranet community for free.

DorjeM

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