On behalf of the Intranetizen team, a huge thank you for all your support, comments – both challenging and affirmative – of the posts we published throughout 2012.  We look forward to writing more posts in 2013 and connecting with the intranet community both near and far.

We wish you lovely break and a Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

See you in January for another great year of thought provoking, sarcastic and challenging posts.

Luke, Dana, Sharon and Jonathan

The Best of Intranetizen 2012 post does exactly what it says on the tin — a round up of the best posts of the year, all in one place. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support, your comments, your wit, your fair criticism and praise this year. See you in 2013.

Back in September we discussed Gamification – an awful word – and concluded that, if used well, it could be a way to tap into the psychology of motivation and reward and make some tasks more engaging, interesting and participative.

But playing psychological tricks with your employees is a dangerous game.  People’s minds are complex things, and a ‘one size fits all’ approach is likely to annoy as many people as it delights.  Recent research by Gartner suggests that as many as 80% of all enterprise gamification will fail due to poor design. So before we fall for the hype, we should ask: will a gamified intranet really help, or would your resources be better spent on more mundane work, like improving the “recognising your employees” section of the HR site?