On behalf of the Intranetizen team, a huge thank you for all your support, comments – both challenging and affirmative – of the posts we published throughout 2012.  We look forward to writing more posts in 2013 and connecting with the intranet community both near and far.

We wish you lovely break and a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

See you in January for another great year of thought provoking, sarcastic and challenging posts.

Luke, Dana, Sharon and Jonathan

The Best of Intranetizen 2012 post does exactly what it says on the tin — a round up of the best posts of the year, all in one place. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support, your comments, your wit, your fair criticism and praise this year. See you in 2013.

Earlier this month we talked about the intranet’s role in preparing for and recovering from catastrophe. But are you prepared for a zombie apocalypse?

So-called digital workplace ‘experts’ claim that people are the heart of every business, and that a central function of an intranet is to help people to find each other, so they can work together. But that overlooks a significant risk – that a zombie could use your intranet to track down people and EAT THEIR BRAINS. We’re hopeful this post finds you in time.

This week marks 25 years since the Great Storm of 1987, widely (but erroneously) considered the only UK hurricane in living memory. 23 people died in the storm, which also caused £7.8bn worth of damage, cut power to thousands of homes and drove transport to a halt as fallen trees blocked roads and train lines.

But one of the less-well-known consequences was in the financial markets.  Severe travel problems across the south of England meant few traders managed to struggle into work in London on Friday 16 October 1987. Unfortunately this coincided with the Hong Kong and Tokyo stock markets crashing and financial crisis spreading west through Europe.

The four Intranetizens really value on- and offline networking for intranet specialists. We read blogs written by other practitioners, share thoughts on Twitter, and regularly attend intranet conferences and meet-ups – all part of the burgeoning intranet networking and knowledge-sharing scene here in Europe.

But what’s always been surprising is how little of this networking seems to take place in or emerge from the US. Of the regular contributors to the #intranet hashtag on Twitter, just a couple are from the US. Our top intranet bloggers are almost all based in Europe or Australasia (with the exception of some key individuals and organisations in Canada), as are all the best known networks and thought leaders. There are around 1,000 firms with over 10,000 staff in the US – that’s around the size at which organisations tend to have a sizable, complex intranet. We imagine there’s plenty of people working as intranet specialists in the US. So, where are they all?

In February, we offered up some tough love with our post describing 14 horrible features that we’d all seen on intranets over the years. It became a confessional with practitioners globally admitting the error of their ways, whilst others defended their use of weather widgets, timezone clocks and “click here” links.

Some actions can never be defended. Never.

In volume two, we offer up further intranet horrors that some intranet managers call features and we call signs you’ve lost the plot. Use this watershed to confess all. Do you do any of these?