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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

One of an intranet's most obvious virtues is its ability to slash the need for paper. wrote a paper started to warn: "Is Your Intranet the Wild West?". Some called it knowledge management, but in 2002 Clay Shirky - more correctly - defined it as 'social software'. But intranets quickly became victims of their own success.

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A short history of intranets and what next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

One of an intranet's most obvious virtues is its ability to slash the need for paper. wrote a paper started to warn: "Is Your Intranet the Wild West?". Some called it knowledge management, but in 2002 Clay Shirky - more correctly - defined it as 'social software'. But intranets quickly became victims of their own success.

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