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There’s a never ending debate on where internal communications or the intranet team should sit within an organisation. Should it be in HR? In Communications? Should intranet teams sit in IT? It has been debated in conferences, workshops and even between the Intranetizen team. What [read more]
Some time ago, we ran a popular post on the most hated intranet features you need to see the back of, such as Dilbert cartoons and Picture of the Day. It was so popular, in fact, that we had to do a follow-up. But we’re [read more]
In a letter to the Daily Telegraph today, an influential group of business leaders in the UK argue that flexible working can boost business as well as benefit employees, if correctly implemented. They commented “Flexible working has been too narrowly characterised as a benefit for [read more]
Here at Intranetizen, we’ve talked about the need to measure the impact and performance of your intranet. While success isn’t measured by page visitors, its hard to meet any of your goals if nobody come to the intranet in the first place. In this special [read more]
Beleaguered internet firm Yahoo! surprised many on Friday when it announced an end to working from home in the company. In a memo widely leaked by disgruntled employees, Yahoo!’s Head of HR Jackie Reses explained: To become the absolute best place to work, communication and [read more]
Back in September we discussed Gamification – an awful word – and concluded that, if used well, it could be a way to tap into the psychology of motivation and reward and make some tasks more engaging, interesting and participative. But playing psychological tricks with [read more]
A lot of companies are still in their phase for experimenting with what is called enterprise 2.0 or social business. For some this means to establish web 2.0 inspired tools such as blogs, wikis or unified communication solutions. For the others the approach leads to [read more]
If you want something to work properly in an organisation, you give someone responsibility for it. You don’t leave it to chance and simply hope that it gets done. Companies would never dream of not having someone in charge of legal, or communications, or widget [read more]
Maybe you’ve got a new boss determined to make their mark or you’ve got an intranet platform that was coded by Noah? Whatever the reason, at some point in your intranet career, you’re bound to be involved in a big intranet re-launch. Towards the end [read more]
As the use of social tools in the enterprise has exploded over recent years, the role of community management is being talked about more and more. Yet confusion remains about exactly what it is, and whether it’s really needed. Social media purists argue authentic online communities [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 […]