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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]
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]
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]
One of the global centres-of-excellence for intranets is Australia: a thriving community, several international award winners and a terrific conference. In 2013, we were there in Sydney to see this event first hand but this year, Rebecca Jackson was in attendance to listen, learn and [read more]
In her post last week, Dana talked about the virtues of sticking around and seeing your intranet develop, grow and thrive. But, being the contrary lot that we are, I’m here to tell you why that might not be such a good idea. Getting to [read more]
We’ve long said that you should never consider your intranet finished. It’s always a work-in-progress, constantly evolving to meet the constant evolution of your business, employee needs and technology capabilities. Your personal development is also never finished. And as an intranet practitioner, so much of your [read more]
Have you completed Jane McConnell’s 2015 Digital Workplace Trends survey? In less than two weeks (closes on 31 December) you will lose your chance to contribute to this valuable source of information and analysis so it’s time, before you put on your out of office, [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 […]