by jregist
16. April 2008 10:04
Ari Bakker has a very interesting post about creating a Tag Driven Information Architecture using MOSS. We have been doing quite a bit of work to try to re-architect our intranet in a way that uses tags or audiences to support a much more portal-like structure. Currently, our intranet is organized quite laterally and is very flat. People tend to think in terms of creating new sites, lists, and libraries rather than re-using the sites, lists, and libraries that we have provided them. I feel that SharePoint tends to encourage this -- particularly in the way that new sites automatically fit into its navigation system while new pages must be manually added to the navigation feature of the product. Why you cannot check a checkbox on a new page that tells it to 'add this page to the site's navigation' and another checkbox to "include the site's navigation for this page" is a mystery to me.
The intranet that is discussed in this post was developed for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport. It recently received an award from Microsoft and also was mentioned in Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox as one of the 10 Best Intranets of 2008.