[frame] Free eBook to download: 10 ways to improve your intranet content [/frame]Day Two of the IntraTeam 2014 conference, another fine spring day in Copenhagen. Jane McConnell @netjmc from NetJMC with Nina Sonne Nikolaisen @ninanikolaisen (COWI) Digital Workplace Trends 2014 Jane presented the latest results from her annual Digital Workplace survey . This year there is a new scorecard element and richer focus on the organisational change angle (I had the privilege...
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For the next three days I'll be live blogging from the IntraTeam 2014 conference in Denmark on Intranets, SharePoint and Enterprise Search. The first day covers Susan Hanley's practical intranet governance and Dale Roberts' workshop on moving off the org chart and into the social graph....
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Getting executives communicating more frequently, or sharing their insights in a more accessible manner, isn't about telling them 'to blog more', it's about helping leaders express their priorities and insights (even concerns). The 'blog' thing is just the channel; the intranet is just the platform....
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Intranet and digital workplace Sam Marshall, Director of ClearBox, will lead a workshop on intranet governance, and give a talk on a Roadmap for the Digital Workplace at IntraTeam Event Copenhagen.Sam's 90-minute workshop will be at 3pm on the 25th February - Intranet Governance in the Real World - How to Make It Stick. The aim is to go beyond policies, to consider how to change...
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It’s a common observation that the big challenge with social intranets/enterprise social networks/insert your buzzword of choice is not technology but culture change. This sounds like wisdom, but is it actually useful?Let’s face it, how much influence does an intranet team have to effect such a change? If you think of all the big culture change programmes your organisation may have run: all the workshops,...
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We noticed that many organisations we work with have good quality intranet content produced by the Communications team, but as you get into the detail of their sites standards start to drop. Quite oftenthe people responsible for these areas have been trained on the publishing tool, but had little guidance on how to get the most from an intranet as a channel: how to...
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Live blogging from Interaction 2013 in London, hosted by Interact Intranet #iic13[caption id="attachment_1580" align="alignright" width="150"] Interaction 2013[/caption] Michael Sampson - Collaboration on the Intranet Michael (@collabguy) began with 'The 5% problem for intranets': Typical functions of the intranet - Communication, Content, Workflow - are important, but only represent a small fraction of what people do in their working day. What really matters in Collaboration.Things people struggle with on...
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At Intranets 2013 in Sydney earlier this year I was invited to join a 'mythbuster' session where I was asked to debunk the belief that "Everything must be 3 clicks or less from the intranet home page". This post summarises the case I made, or you can watch the 5-minute video:[video file="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2M97pGKhGE" width="560" height="315" tjpbbb7E="false"]The principle that everything should be within 3 clicks has been...
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Introduction Jane McConnell kindly shared with me a copy of her latest Digital Workplace Trends report, based on a survey of 362 organisations covering their current activities and future plans. This is the seventh time she has run her survey (it began as the Global Intranet Trends report in 2006), so can genuinely claim to be an insight into longer-term trends.The way the report defines the...
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Live blogging from Day 2 (see also Day 1). It's been a fantastic conference so far, so I'll try to do justice to today's tracks (and apologies in advance when it goes silent at the end as I've the privilege of being the closing keynote -- no pressure then!). Conference agenda.Creating Trust and Uniting staff at a global and local level. Kim Sbarcea - ThinkingShiftJames...
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