Most intranet platforms are like buying gym equipment. They come with very detailed instructions about how to bolt the parts together. They may even come with some slick videos and diagrams of sample exercises. But what they don’t do is tell you what programme you should follow. If you want to run a marathon, the way you use that equipment would be entirely different to...
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There are things the IT department does that make the IC team's job harder; there are things the IC team does that frustrates IT people. Talking to each other can really help....
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The Internet of Things is the idea that we can digitally connect everything around us for sensing, tracking, and control. How might this concept apply to the office – an intranet of things?...
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This year's Intranet Innovation Awards by Step Two unearthed a rich set of interesting practices in the intranet and digital workplace world. Notably, it was often the smaller organisations that set the standards. On November 3rd, the European-based winners and commended entries came together. Thanks to Richard Hare of Intranetters for hosting the event, and Steve Bynghall for organising the awards on behalf of Step Two.As...
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Like with any intranet, how you manage and use SharePoint will influence how well your organisation communications and collaborates. There are pitfalls with SharePoint, and there are ways of overcoming the common challenges. ...
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Continuously improving your intranet after launch will not only ensure it remains relevant to people and your organisation, it also demonstrates your value. Aside from developmental and design improvements, your maturing intranet needs to support new projects and help solve business problems. ...
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Seven concerns that can challenge any intranet, and how to overcome the pitfalls involved with stakeholders, intranet improvements, governance, and personalisation....
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The intranet design and launch project may have been a vast investment of time and energy, but that’s now in the past. You need to help make the intranet an integral part of the people’s ways of working. Creating and delivering specific training topics will give people the confidence and competence to make best use of the intranet....
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Designing and launching a new, or revamped, intranet may be a massive project, but the success of your efforts isn’t the launch – the journey towards a useful intranet has only just begun. Some ideas on where you should focus next. ...
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Search on intranets has become a little box of desperation. We need to move away from thinking of enterprise search as being a single search box on the top right of our intranets. Instead, we should offer dedicated search interfaces tailored to specific tasks....
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