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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Live blogging from Step Two's Intranet Conference 15-16th May. Conference agendaIntroduction - James Robertson The conference theme is "Intranets Unite", both in the sense of Intranets uniting people in our organizations, and as an event for intranet managers to come together and share. A lively audience of about 160 have come togetherJames argued that on the theme of uniting mobile intranets, we don't want 20 different apps...
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Day 3 from the IntraTeam ConferenceSee also: Day 1, Day 2 Sharon O'Dea - Mobile Intranet at UK Parliament Sharon (@sharonodea) wins my vote for the most entertaining session. She talked about the challenges of being an intranet manager in the unusual world of a near 1000-year old organisation. When she started there was an old intranet, but with elections coming and a new influx of younger, novice MPs, ...
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I'm at IntraTeam 2012 in Denmark and will be blogging my take on the highlights (apologies to the speakers in tracks I miss).see also: Day 2, Day 3Today's pre-conference workshops featured: Jim Ylisela on Writing for the Internal Web Jim (@jpyjr) reckons our employees are getting rapidly cynical as intranet content falls behind web content; it's boring, not interactive, words not video.For articles, nobody follows the Who,...
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