Goverment intranet team looking for "intranet 2.0" screen shots

A senior advisor in the ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management of a European country is looking for sample screen shots from real cases where organisations have implemented web 2.0 tools internally.

She believes these examples will help her senior management understand the vision she and her colleagues have for their new intranet.

I have met this person and her request is a serious one. If you have screenshots you are willing to share with her, contact me and I'll put you in direct email contact.

Here's some (very slightly edited) text from her email to me:

"This year we are going to change our intranet dramatically. … I have written a paper about the intranet as I see it: summarized: Web 2.0.

The paper was enthusiastically met by my communications colleagues and some webmasters and (most importantly) our management. We are well aware of the fact that intranet is not a communication tool. We want to give the employees the best collaboration and working tools as possible. Which means we want to implement all those things mentioned in the web survey on your blog (referring to the NetStrategy/JMC 2006 Intranet Study).

My new challenge is to convince the 'topdogs' in our department that Web 2.0 is a good idea. We have told them the general idea, but they do not entirely seem to grasp the concept yet. What I desperately need is an image. A picture that shows what a homepage of an intranet Web 2.0 could look like. I would welcome screenshots of organisations that already implemented (some sort) of Web 2.0.

I am aware of the risk: the image could encourage people to think that our intranet is exactly going to look like the example(s). I am willing to take this risk, because it can help me to get the meaning across to the decision makers as we desperately need budget."

Comments

[Stephan Schillerwein]

Dear Jane,

There is a post from Andrew McAfee about the 2.0 Intranet of AARF which contains some very nice screenshots that might just suit your client:

http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/now_thats_what_im_talking_about/

Their concept embraces "2.0" very well and this also shows in the screenshots.

[Jane McConnell]

Hi Stephan - thanks very much. I'll send an email to the person who made the request and make sure she sees this.