One Intranets Vancouver: Intranets, extranets, portals: February 2006

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Intranet content: Bad grammar is okay

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Managing an intranet is tough work. It's even tougher if you insist on perfect spelling, proper grammar, and inverse-pyramid writing. So relax! It's more important that your content is timely. Decentralize content authoring, and don't worry about run-on sentences and misplaced quote marks. Save your penmanship for core corporate information.

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Let go of an obsession with intranet content quality

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About the Author

I'm Chris McGrath, an intranet consultant in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I've been working on intranets since 1997, and on plain ol' web sites for even longer. I run One Intranets, the firm that co-created ThoughtFarmer -- an enterprise collaboration platform for Windows-based intranets.