All posts by Sharon O'Dea
Team messaging app Slack took the enterprise world by storm in 2015, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s taken team messaging capabilities, added integration with a host of web apps, and put them all together in a stunning and highly usable design. Here’s [read more]
Every year, Edelman’s respected Trust Barometer shows a fall in trust in CEOs. Internal comms pros note this trend is reflected internally too, with many highlighting the need to rebuild trust in and increase visibility of leaders as one of their top priorities for 2015. [read more]
Managing the intranet is often the easy bit. The hard bit is dealing with stakeholders from across the business who seem set on making your life difficult. Unfortunately it’s stakeholder engagement that dictates whether any big or small intranet projects sink or swim. Failure to [read more]
Whether you’re delivering a full redesign, content changes or some new functionality, every intranet manager finds they’re called on to talk people through the intranet on a regular basis. So often, in fact, that we rarely stop to think how we can do it better. [read more]
In her post last week, Dana talked about the virtues of sticking around and seeing your intranet develop, grow and thrive. But, being the contrary lot that we are, I’m here to tell you why that might not be such a good idea. Getting to [read more]
Social networking giant Facebook is looking to extend its reach into the digital workplace with a social collaboration offer to compete with giants such as Google, as well as enterprise social products such as Sharepoint and Jive. According to a report in the Financial Times this [read more]
In follow up to our last post, what does your intranet job title mean (which you can fill in a survey and let us know), Intranetizen is taking a look at the salaries intranet specialists receive and where they should really be. Here in London, [read more]
Here at Intranetizen we’ve long wondered why the UK doesn’t have its own fully-fledged intranet conference. It seems we weren’t alone – but now two intranet practitioners have taken matters into their own hands and organised the UK’s first independent intranet conference, Intranet Now. Recognising [read more]
We learned yesterday that JP Morgan have an online resignation tool as part of their employee engagement programme. We expect there’s more to it than a big red “sod this, I’ve had enough, I’m off” button on the homepage. But it got us thinking: as [read more]
This week news broke that leading enterprise social network Jive is searching for a buyer. It follows in the footsteps of Yammer and Socialcast in moving from successful enterprise social startup to acquisition by technology giants in just a few short years. It’s thought that [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
If you’ve ever become caught up in an intranet project deadlock between HR, IT, Comms or some other part of a business, you’ll know that […]
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 […]