Digital Workplaces & Intranets
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When organisations engage us to deliver communication and collaboration programmes, one of the key benefits they’re looking for is to enable their organisations to better Work Out Loud. That is, to purposefully make your work visible so that it can be committed to corporate memory, [read more]
This week Facebook released a detailed study into the value their enterprise product, Workplace, delivers for those organisations who have rolled it out. Conducted by heavyweight research firm Forrester, it uses a combination of surveys and qualitative interviews with customers to quantify the difference Workplace [read more]
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]
Last week, less than a year after Atlassian launched its workplace chat app Stride, came the surprise announcement they’re pulling the plug in an agreement with competitor Slack. This marks the latest salvo in the battle for the increasingly crowded enterprise chat market. What’s the [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]
Talk of Artificial Intelligence – or AI – is everywhere. The rapid development of AI promises a future where bots will run routine tasks better and cheaper than humans. This, in turn, will transform what we currently call the digital workplace into one where people [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 year we were all very pleased to be given the Intranet Now Diamond award for remarkable contribution to the intranet community. The massive glass diamond is awarded each year to someone who selflessly shares and publishes their thoughts, theories, guidance, and stories about intranets [read more]
This week saw another twist in the tale of Enterprise Social Network (ESN) vendor Jive, with the sale of their external communities product, Jive-x, to social media management vendor Lithium. This comes just three months after Jive were acquired by Aurea, the customer-centric software house [read more]
I’ve been working with the other three Intranetizens for over five years now as a virtual team, but with two of us now working as independent consultants we’ve finally had the chance to practice what we preach and use online collaboration tools to deliver projects [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 […]