Digital Workplaces & Intranets
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Whether you’re delivering a full redesign, content changes or some new functionality, every intranet manager finds they’re called on to talk people through the intranet on a regular basis. So often, in fact, that we rarely stop to think how we can do it better. [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]
If you’re not there already, I’d hazard a guess that someone in your organisation (probably from IT) has already asked the question “Should we move to the cloud?”. There’s a lot of information already available on the cloud and its pros and cons. I’m not [read more]
Digital doyenne Mary Meeker released the 2015 edition of her much anticipated report yesterday (27 May) and the Intranetizen team have been through the detail to interpret how the trends highlighted may affect your intranet and digital workplace. Mobile is showing incredible growth The staggering growth [read more]
Some people believe the launch of the Apple Watch has raised the prospect of the corporate intranet breaking into another new technology territory: wearables. We’ve come a long way in the last few years with universal intranet access now commonplace, but how might the intranet [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]
What is a great intranet user experience? Efficient functionality with a little fun, and a focus on keeping it simple maybe? Today, guest writer Carolyn Douglas, Founder / CEO of Intranet Connections, give us her insights on the intranet user experience journey and provides great [read more]
There are those days, even those meetings, where you know you are going to have a tough conversation; either with a colleague, a stakeholder or a content owner about what they want to do or see on the intranet. Try as you might but your [read more]
Social networking giant Facebook is looking to extend its reach into the digital workplace with a social collaboration offer to compete with giants such as Google, as well as enterprise social products such as Sharepoint and Jive. According to a report in the Financial Times this [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]
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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 […]