All posts by Sharon O'Dea
Some of the greatest value the digital workplace can deliver is moving internal services online, making it easier to get things done at less cost to the company. Online HR, training or meeting room booking are just some examples of services that are delivered through [read more]
It’s been a busy week for the Intranetizens. Alongside our day jobs managing and advising on intranets and digital communications, we found the time to record our very first podcast while two of us – Jon and Sharon – attended IntraTeam Event in Copenhagen. This [read more]
This Valentine’s Day we’ve reached into the Intranetizen mailbag to offer some advice to one anxious reader. Dear Intranetizen I really love my intranet. But lately I feel like it’s not like it was. When we got together – back in the SharePoint 2010 days [read more]
With the arrival of Facebook Workplace and the merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn enterprise social just got sexy, and many companies are asking if they still need a traditional intranet. Comparing the high adoption rates of ESNs with the low readership on internal communications, scrapping [read more]
In October Facebook launched their long-anticipated enterprise offering, Workplace. Regular readers of this blog will know we’ve been super excited about this since it was first rumoured in 2014. With the product now available, we’ve written a three-part series on all you need to know [read more]
Between the Intranetizen team we’ve launched tens of intranets as part of in-house teams, and we proudly champion the role and work of intranet managers. But one of the most common questions we’re asked is if and when to get external help to deliver your [read more]
The Oxford English dictionary announced that 2016’s “word of the year” is post-truth. In celebration of this counter-factual triumph, here’s our advice on how you can make your intranet keep on winning, bigly. Insist on procuring a platform with every bit of functionality anyone has [read more]
Here at Intranetizen two of our most frequent rants are over the low value that businesses frequently ascribe to their intranet and the people who work on it, and the constant cycle of intranet relaunches and declines. But arguably both of these issues stem from [read more]
We’ve blogged before on the case for and against giving your intranet a name. A great way to engage users and promote adoption of a new intranet or ESN is to include employees in the naming process, with a competition. By getting them involved early you enable users to [read more]
The Intranetizen team is delighted to attend a number of digital workplace events each year. We do our best to write them up to share those insights we picked up with the community, but also so you can work out the best way to spend your training and [read more]
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