Mauro Cardarelli has written a nice piece about measuring the success of a portal.  Reading his post about a recent portal launch made me reflect on my not so recent portal launch.  We are 9 months into a very large portal deployment, where we took a regular HTML intranet site and turned it into a behemoth portal site, handing over content control to the content owners and combing several smaller sites into the larger portal.  It was quite a ride during development, and has been an interesting experience since deployment.  Continue reading →