Governance
Articles
With just over a month of preparation to go, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is no doubt occupying considerable time for intranet and digital workplace specialists. If you’re a subscriber to Intranetizen (surely everyone is, right?), then you’ll see some communications from us [read more]
The recent allegations about Cambridge Analytica using data obtained via Facebook to influence elections have made a serious dent in Facebook’s reputation. Its share price fell by 7%and MPs have summoned CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence over the “catastrophic failure of process”. Inevitably, this [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]
Most intranets are owned by or heavily influenced by the Internal Communications team. While that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can mean that the you’re disproportionately focused on the sections that matter most to them, such as corporate news. Having the Comms Director as a [read more]
In under 18 months, one of the most fundamental changes to the way businesses handle data — the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — will come into application. But how will this new legislation impact intranet and digital workplace teams? Today, we take a look [read more]
A great intranet helps people to connect, collaborate and create. We give employees tools to work together to produce content and documents, and to share that knowledge and output with the rest of the organisation. That’s a noble endeavour; all that collaborating and sharing makes people more [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]
Job titles are funny things and almost never describe what we do, but they say something about the dominant narratives in the organisations we work in. I have been having a close look at the 400 job titles of people who attended or are going [read more]
Here at Intranetizen two of our most frequent rants are over the low value that businesses frequently ascribe to their intranet and the people who work on it, and the constant cycle of intranet relaunches and declines. But arguably both of these issues stem from [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]
Latest comments
[…] 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 […]