With 150,000 vendors, contractors and full-time employees worldwide, Microsoft’s intranet portal MSW (Microsoft Web) gets a lot of hits. To keep the content fresh, Microsoft taps a number of sources, including external news sites, blogs, user-submitted photos and more.

You can’t repeat these too often.

Using Open Atrium to deploy a highly custom, enterprise grade intranet solution.

Leveraging Enterprise edition features as well as Office Communication Server; the solution delivers a unified platform for content management and collaboration while also paving the way for significant business process improvements.

How gaming mechanics might help fulfil a vision for the future of intranets.

Summarizes best practices along the dimensions of intranet sponsorship, governance, user needs, experience design, technology implementation, training, adoption, and ROI metrics.

As intranet projects benefit from powerful implementation platforms, teams should focus on optimizing the user experience for specific organizational needs, as 4 winning examples show.

How BT uses social media with internal communication from Mark Morell.

Worldwide Intranet Challenge Intra Team Presentation V4 by Andrew Wright.

Behind the firewall, some things are better left unsaid.