All posts by Jonathan Phillips
The Intranetizen team are often asked advice about intranet vendors that supply software and hardware solutions to run your intranet. Whilst we have 35 years of blue-chip intranet experience between us, in common with many intranet practitioners, we have relatively limited experience of the 200+ [read more]
The publication this week of the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer report provides fascinating insight for HR and Communications teams with implications for digital workplace professionals. This year, Trust at Work is the overarching theme, coinciding with the crowning of “My Employer” has the most trusted [read more]
Since 2011, I’ve managed Step Two’s Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards, a global competition celebrating leading-edge intranets and digital workplaces. We’ve had a variety of winners from global brands to tiny companies and the roster has even included some of the Intranetizens. We’ve just entered our [read more]
With just over a month of preparation to go, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is no doubt occupying considerable time for intranet and digital workplace specialists. If you’re a subscriber to Intranetizen (surely everyone is, right?), then you’ll see some communications from us [read more]
Some businesses have intranets, some do not. Some use ERP tools, some deploy CRM, some declare themselves “O365 houses” or align to Salesforce, Oracle, Facebook or other tech megalith, but all — every one of them — has a digital workplace. A digital workplace is [read more]
Last week, the Intranetizen team caught up with Wedge Black to record a new episode of Intranatter — the Intranetizen podcast. Our topic was of course the very successful IntranetNow conference held in London on the 5th October. What was it all about? There are [read more]
Earlier this week, Automattic — the company that owns the WordPress content management system — closed their beautiful San Francisco office after seven years of use. With just a handful of employees using an office space designed for hundreds, it didn’t make sense to keep [read more]
Yesterday saw the publication of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Internet Trends 2017 report by Mary Meeker and to save you some of the time involved in reading all 355 pages of it, we’ve trawled through to find the enterprise story for intranet, digital workplace and [read more]
At the start of this week Jive, one of the dominant enterprise social vendors, agreed to a buyout. While analysts had been predicting an acquisition as the most likely future direction for Jive for some time, the buyer and the timing caught many by surprise. [read more]
Have you ever considered submitting your intranet or digital workplace for an award or entering it into a competition? There are various advantages in doing so such as to help to support arguments for further investment, share best practices with the wider community or simply to [read more]
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[…] memory fades, but it involved alcohol. I remember discussing with Luke Mepham of Intranetizen that someone should put on an independent intranet-focused conference. It
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Pick the right intranet solution and you can still configure/extend without building from scratch, but with less risk/effort (although always some element of trade off […]