All posts by Dana Leeson


Five years, 197 posts and one award

On 30 September, at Intranet Now, we were surprised and absolutely delighted to have received the Diamond Award, alongside Aussie intranet supremo James Robertson. What is the Intranet Now Diamond award? Now in its third year, the award is given in recognition of a remarkable contribution to [read more]


Intranetizen is back

It’s been some time since we have written a post. Actually, it’s been over five months, which has surprised a lot of people, especially the four of us. We did receive a lot of questions if Intranetizen was over, or did we have a genius plan [read more]

Happy Holidays from the Intranetizen team

As 2014 comes to a close, we wanted to say thank you to all of you who have visited the site over the past year.  Some of you may have noticed we haven’t been posting as often; life, work (secondments to Asia, SharePoint upgrades and increased [read more]

Intranet white lies we have all said

There are those days, even those meetings, where you know you are going to have a tough conversation; either with a colleague, a stakeholder or a content owner about what they want to do or see on the intranet. Try as you might but your [read more]

What does your intranet job title mean?

In the intranet and digital workplace community you can find a wide range of varying job titles, departments and responsibilities. It is a field that is expanding but isn’t regulated or recognised through a governing members association. We get lumped in with IT practitioners, HR generalists [read more]


Are you attending #IIC13?

Tomorrow the Intranetizen four (Jon, Luke, Sharon and Dana) will be off to Interact’s Interaction Intranet Conference. Same with last year, this is the only year where the Intranetizen team is on the speaking bill. Are you attending this year’s conference? What are you most [read more]

It’s about the personality, not the role

There’s a never ending debate on where internal communications or the intranet team should sit within an organisation. Should it be in HR? In Communications? Should intranet teams sit in IT? It has been debated in conferences, workshops and even between the Intranetizen team. What [read more]

Happy Holidays

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 [read more]