All posts by Jonathan Phillips
On behalf of all the Intranetizen team, a huge ‘thank you’ for all your support, encouragement, comments, retweets and enthusiasm during 2011. Our growing team have really enjoyed writing and we hope you’ve enjoyed reading. We wish you a Happy Holidays (and a Merry Christmas [read more]
Warren Buffet, the legendary billionaire investor put it rather succinctly when he said that “Accounting is the language of business” – it’s the numbers that shows how a business is performing and it’s the numbers that shareholders look at to understand how their investment is [read more]
Executive blogs have the potential to be a genuinely powerful communication vehicle, but in our experience from countless intranets, they seem to frequently miss the mark. Here are a few observations which will help you improve the impact of blogging in your organisation. Thanks to [read more]
Intranetizen has now been live for almost a year in various forms and we’ve hugely enjoyed the writing and your collaboration and support over those months. We’re delighted to have added two new writers to the intranetizen team who we believe will bring a whole [read more]
As a seasoned internet user, you’ll be acutely aware of the risks of believing everything you see or read on the web. Clever phishing attempts, Nigerian 419 email scams, promises of wonderdrugs and elaborate email chains have made internet users rightly cynical about what they [read more]
Luke and I have a problem. We’re good with generating intranet ideas and provoking discussion, we’re pretty good at committing words and pictures to paper, but we’re not the greatest at actually finishing our intranetizen posts and hitting the publish button. Your collective input, comment [read more]
It all used to be so simple: your corporate intranet would be owned and managed by your internal communications team; your corporate internet site by your external communications, by your investor relations team or your marketing team; and your extranet managed by your sales and [read more]
One of the positive innovations in this years Digital Workplace Survey are the inclusion of some company demographic questions, designed to allow some detailed research of how digital communication and collaboration tools are used in a range of organisations. Like many companies, not all of [read more]
One of the notable trends within intranets is the move to mobile: the ability to access intranet content and function in a webpage or app format. For many businesses, it’s seen as the next obvious frontier and a great way to engage a larger enterprise [read more]
half-baked adjective (of an idea or philosophy) Not fully thought through; lacking a sound basis The halfbakery is a community-based ideas bank used by people who wish to propose and develop (not always serious) half-baked inventions. It’s been operating quietly since the mid-90s, generating thousands of ideas [read more]
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