Over the last few years we've been supporters of the Intranet Innovation Awards. The Awards now have a new name and scope, and we'd love to see ClearBox customers and friends submit entries. This guest post by Steve Bynghall explains all. One of the highlights of my working year is managing Step Two’s Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards, a global competition for leading-edge intranets and other channels within the...
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It’s often the web CMS that gets bought first and then crowbarred into an intranet – with unsatisfactory and disengaging results....
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Live blogging from Copenhagen. See also Day 1 The Intranet's new role Brad Whitworth - Cisco "When you work from home you learn how to look good from the waist up" We no longer need to be at a desk in an office to work. At Cisco they have a dermatologist that can do 95% of diagnoses via telepresence with the help of an on-site nurse. Even receptionists don't have...
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#IEC16 "the HomePage of an intranet is the most important page. It is the first page users see - and the last for some" @IntraTeam Live blogging from the IntraTeam conference in Copenhagen. See also Day 2 Our move to a tag/topic based intranet Dennis Agusi – Philips [caption width="300" id="attachment_5055" align="alignright"] The case for a new Philips intranet[/caption]Dennis described an extensive intranet replacement programme. In the past Philips...
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I spoke with the digital workplace team at Velux about how they launched their collaboration platforms, and how several technologies come together to support local collaboation on a global scale....
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A round up of what influenced us, and what we found to be truly relevant when working within the digital workplace. ...
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Should intranets be essential? Logic says ‘yes’: intranets should aim to support the most important elements of a business and therefore be essential to that business. But hidden behind such an objective is often a desire to drive traffic to an intranet in the belief that high usage constitutes success. ...
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The people directory has long been on the ‘killer app’ list when it comes to intranet features. Originally this was mostly phone numbers, but typically it now also includes photographs, skills, reporting lines, hobbies and interests. No, let me rephrase that; … typically it now includes fields for this information. In practice, some organisations still disable them....
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Not everyone wants to work all the time, but there’s pressure to be available, to communicate, through holidays and weekends. ...
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Organisations have different collaboration styles but the tools are built around tacit assumptions that don’t fit. ...
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