Digital Workplaces & Intranets
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In October Facebook launched their long-anticipated enterprise offering, Workplace. Regular readers of this blog will know we’ve been super excited about this since it was first rumoured in 2014. With the product now available, we’ve written a three-part series on all you need to know [read more]
Between the Intranetizen team we’ve launched tens of intranets as part of in-house teams, and we proudly champion the role and work of intranet managers. But one of the most common questions we’re asked is if and when to get external help to deliver your [read more]
Since the announcement of Microsoft’s deal to purchase LinkedIn for $26bn in June, there has been significant interest in how these two behemoths would come together. In a quick post last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shared news of the early priorities. We take a look [read more]
Back in the 1880s, Kodak revolutionised photography. They created the roll film box camera, a camera which hugely simplified the process of taking photos. Their advertising slogan “you click the button, we do the rest” was one of the first to focus on the experience rather [read more]
In 2015, Brit Joshua Browder took on the lawyers and local government on behalf of motorists. Browder’s thinking was simple and generous: when a motorist incorrectly receives a parking fine, challenging the legitimacy costs time and money and requires a deep knowledge of the small [read more]
Much hot air, waffle and expert thought-leadership has been shared on the topic of Digital Workplaces. Despite a multitude of definitions, including my own, there are some common themes: it’s the tools and services that an employee needs to do their job. It’s not every day [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]
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]
The Intranetizen team are often asked advice about intranet vendors that supply software and hardware solutions to run your intranet. Whilst we have 44 years of blue-chip intranet experience between us, in common with many intranet practitioners, we have relatively limited experience of the 200+ software [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 44 years of blue-chip intranet experience between us, in common with many intranet practitioners, we have relatively limited experience of the 200+ software [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 […]