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There comes a time when an intranet manager is faced with an intranet upgrade. Your intranet isn’t fit for purpose and the majority of your time is spent fixing things rather than developing and perfecting areas within. Does the thought of an upgrade excite you? [read more]
New Year, new job? The start of the year can often bring a new professional challenge and maybe yours is a new venture into the world of intranets. If you’re the new head honcho of intranets at Anywhere Inc., or maybe you just want to [read more]
Warren Buffet, the legendary billionaire investor put it rather succinctly when he said that “Accounting is the language of business” – it’s the numbers that shows how a business is performing and it’s the numbers that shareholders look at to understand how their investment is [read more]
Executive blogs have the potential to be a genuinely powerful communication vehicle, but in our experience from countless intranets, they seem to frequently miss the mark. Here are a few observations which will help you improve the impact of blogging in your organisation. Thanks to [read more]
It all used to be so simple: your corporate intranet would be owned and managed by your internal communications team; your corporate internet site by your external communications, by your investor relations team or your marketing team; and your extranet managed by your sales and [read more]
From the outset of this post, it’s vital to point out that neither of the editors of Intranetizen are lawyers — reader, if we were, we’d not be publishing this, but would be charging you a small fortune for the next few paragraphs! It is [read more]
In her excellent executive summary of Digital Workplace Trends, Jane McConnell discusses 5 megatrends for intranets, including the notion that intranets are becoming more ‘people-focused’. This is often used to describe the social tools that are becoming commonplace on intranets, but also reflects the growing [read more]
This weekend we upgrade our Intranet. But rather than it being the invisible, out of hours operation we had hoped, the sheer volume of data that needs to be moved means the work will take over 48 hours and as a result we are having [read more]
A few weeks ago, Yammer took hold in my organisation. From a standing start 18 months ago with just me, we gained tens of users in 2 weeks at the beginning of the year and growing quickly. (Aside: those first few years of Yammer were [read more]
The intranet is changing. No longer a corporate internal website, the intranet is evolving into a digital workspace for your employees — a gateway to the information, functions and transactions that enable your business to function. If this doesn’t sound like your workplace yet, here [read more]
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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 […]