Digital Workplaces & Intranets
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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]
Carousels are great news for the stressed out intranet manager who wants to keep their stakeholders happy by telling them their story or campaign is on the front page. What they’re not very good for is communicating a message to users. Here are five reasons [read more]
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]
Back in 2011 we wrote about 10 laws that every Intranet manager should know. Number 7 on that list is the EU Cookie Law, and since then the legislation has been through a few iterations. So many iterations that it would be entirely acceptable for [read more]
They say that communication is only 7% verbal. That means that video communicates at least ten times more than a written message alone. Paralanguage (tone, rate, pitch) , gestures, eye contact, facial expression, posture, stress and intonation all come in to play. The true personality [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]
Earlier today, Yammer and Klout announced details of a new strategic partnership that will see Klout scores added to Yammer profiles. On the face of it, these are two complementary technologies — one providing prescient social networking functionality and the other giving an instant read-out [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]
We’ve lived with the words ‘like’ and its hateful neologism ‘unlike’ since Facebook introduced it almost five years ago. It’s become a staple of social media sites. We’ve all-grown used to seeing — and using — the like button to express delight in a post, [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]
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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 […]