Digital Workplaces & Intranets
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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]
Yesterday saw the publication of the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Internet Trends 2017 report by Mary Meeker and to save you some of the time involved in reading all 355 pages of it, we’ve trawled through to find the enterprise story for intranet, digital workplace and [read more]
At the start of this week Jive, one of the dominant enterprise social vendors, agreed to a buyout. While analysts had been predicting an acquisition as the most likely future direction for Jive for some time, the buyer and the timing caught many by surprise. [read more]
It was a busy week for Facebook at their F8 conference in California this week. Along with some potentially groundbreaking Virtual Reality products, they announced a raft of changes to their Workplace product which show a commitment to evolving their enterprise as product as rapidly as their [read more]
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]
In my office, the company gives you cake. It’s a perfunctory cake but served up daily, it keeps employees reasonably happy and productive. Even though employees get cake every day, they barely notice it and never sing its praises. They probably think that everyone gets [read more]
In November, the BBC ran a story about Pivotal Software who start their day with a team huddle at 09:06. In it, Rob Mee their Chief Executive Officer discusses some of the thinking behind their precise timings and in doing so highlights an obvious truth: [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 the third and final part of our Workplace by Facebook series we’re looking at apps, bots and Workplace’s ability to integrate with other systems. As Workplace is still in its infancy, the ability to build on, and integrate with, the platform is limited to [read more]
In our first post on Workplace by Facebook, Sharon shared a whistle-stop tour of the basics of the system. It’ll be very familiar – it’s the Facebook system that 1.5billion of us use regularly, but filled with the enterprise content and, eventually, apps. So let’s [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 […]