A lightning talk from Martin White, delving into the long history of intranets.

1. A very short history of
intranets
1965-2001 + 2016
Martin White
Intranet Focus Ltd
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2. The birthplace of intranets?
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4. Ray Ozzie,
Lotus Notes
1984
Marc Andreesen,
Netscape
1994
Don Bitzer,
PLATO
1965
Making intranets possible
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5. The impact of Lotus Notes
1992
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6. The first intranet product?
1994

7. 1996 – it all starts to happen
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8. Business Week, 25 February 1996
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11. MILLBRAE, California--Oracle assembled analysts, journalists, and corporate
customers here today to hear its intranet strategy, hoping to outshine
competitors Microsoft and Netscape Communications by trumpeting its
expertise in the database market.

12. Gartner Group
1996
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13. @intranetfocus
1997

14. The pioneers - 1997
James Robertson Jane McConnell
Howard McQueen Shel Holtz
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15. 1998
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16. Intranet good practice - 1998
• Intranets will not on their own change business
culture
• Staff resources to maintain an intranet will be
significant
• Intranets need a different approach to design and
navigation to websites
• Intranets need to be owned by the business
• Intranets need to be user-led
• Intranets should support core business processes
• An intranet cannot be built without good IT support
From Intranet Management, TFPL. 1998@intranetfocus

17. 1999
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18. Digital workplaces 1993 - 2000
• Charles Grantham wrote books on virtual
workplaces (1993) and digital workplaces (1996)
• Jeffery Bier (ex-Lotus!) proposed in 2000 that
digital workplaces had to be
• Comprehensible
• Contagious
• Complete
• Connected
• Launched eRooms in 2000 as the first digital
workplace application

20. 1999 2011
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Jennifer Stone-Gonzalez

21. Some things don’t change!
2001
2016
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22. 2004-2015
Google Trends
Intranet
Collaboration Knowledge
management
Digital
workplace

23. 2016 - The Inquiring Organisation
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Information behaviours
Information culture
Information seeking
Information policies
Information maturity
Information quality
Information literacy Information risk

24. Intranatverk
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This presentation is based on the text of a chapter
on the history of intranets in an intranet handbook
to be published later this year by Kristian Norling,
Intranatverk, Gothenberg
https://intranatverk.se/

25. You have just been listening to a
very short history of intranets
1965-2001 + 2016
Martin White
Intranet Focus Ltd
martin.white@intranetfocus.com
@intranetfocus