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Last week, less than a year after Atlassian launched its workplace chat app Stride, came the surprise announcement they’re pulling the plug in an agreement with competitor Slack. This marks the latest salvo in the battle for the increasingly crowded enterprise chat market. What’s the [read more]
Talk of Artificial Intelligence – or AI – is everywhere. The rapid development of AI promises a future where bots will run routine tasks better and cheaper than humans. This, in turn, will transform what we currently call the digital workplace into one where people [read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Intranets can be efficient and helpful systems and they’re usually designed and implemented in a way that reflects the needs of people who use them every day. The key to identifying the right needs is thorough, structured research. The key element during the early design process is to generate [read more]
Managing the intranet is often the easy bit. The hard bit is dealing with stakeholders from across the business who seem set on making your life difficult. Unfortunately it’s stakeholder engagement that dictates whether any big or small intranet projects sink or swim. Failure to [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]
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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 […]