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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]
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]
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]
Intranets can be efficient and helpful systems and they’re usually designed and implemented in a way that reflects the needs of people who use them every day. The key to identifying the right needs is thorough, structured research. The key element during the early design process is to generate [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]
Do you have the kind of terror inspiring presence that leaves your co-workers paralysed and silent when you speak? No, neither do we. What’s more likely is that you’ve got home after a hard day and ranted to your spouse / loved one / cat [read more]
When I first started working on intranets back in the late 90s I remember searching high and low for tips on starting up a forum on an intranet. How do you get the ball rolling? But it seemed there was little interest in the dynamics [read more]
The elevator pitch: a short prepared speech that can be given in the time it takes to go up in an elevator. Picture it, you are in the elevator and in walks the one person who you need to ‘get on board’ with your idea or [read more]
It’s the weekend and you are sitting at a dinner party, to the left you have Paul the policeman, across from you is Harriet the teacher, and at the end you have Bob the bus driver. After Bob finishes a hilarious tale from his week [read more]
While every intranet will differ in functionality and design based on the needs and culture of the business it serves, we can’t pretend our intranets exist in isolation. Our users spend the majority of time on other sites, many of them very good ones. They [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 […]