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29 Feb 2012

IntraTeam Conference Day 2: What’s Happening in Intranets and the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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This is part 2 of a day-by-day blog of Intrateam 2012See also: Day 1, Day 3 Tony Byrne - Latest Trends in Collaboration and Social Computing Within Larger Enterprises Tony (@TonyByrne) of the Real Story Group (RSG) began by saying: If you throw in blogs, wikis etc. at the organisation and people don't use them, it's not an adoption problem, it's a technology strategy problem; you haven't...

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28 Feb 2012

What’s Happening in Intranets and the Digital Workplace – IntraTeam 2012

by Sam Marshall
in Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint
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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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04 Jan 2012

A Review of the 2011 in Intranets and the Digital Workplace

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Collaboration, Communications, Digital Workplace, Governance, Intranets, SharePoint, Strategy, Technology
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Many people are boldly doing 2012 predictions, which is nice guesswork if you can get it. I’m going to stick to more certain ground and talk about the 10 things that stood out for me in 2011.1) Intranets remained stubbornly not dead. There seemed to be a rash of articles by people writing headlines “The Intranet is Dead” and then saying why it wasn’t. Unfortunately...

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24 Nov 2011

The Changing Role of Internal Communications

by Sam Marshall
in Communications, Digital Workplace, Intranets
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Last week I was invited to join Melcrum’s Social Media group to discuss how the growth of social media impacts the function of internal communications. It was a very lively debate and what follows is my take on the topic, updated, based on what I learned that day (I was actually billed to do a ‘download’ but the irony of a one-way presentation on social...

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21 Oct 2011

The Digital Workplace: Think Strategically, Act Tactically

by Sam Marshall
in Adoption, Digital Workplace, Intranets, Strategy
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Managing the digital workplace brings some tough challenges and calls for a mixture of clear strategic thinking, combined with pragmatism about how employees respond to the changes you envisage.  Most knowledge work does not happen within processes but is more free-form and people-focussed. The appeal of social tools in this context is that they are better adapted to this kind of work than enterprise workflow...

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16 Aug 2011

Apps for Intranets

by Sam Marshall
in Digital Workplace, Intranets, SharePoint
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[caption id="attachment_366" align="alignright" width="300"] Photo by Christiano Betta[/caption]Since Apple launched its App Store, over 1bn applications have been downloaded. This year, it expanded the idea to cover its Mac computers and sold 1 million apps on its day of launch. Given such unequivocal success, are there things that we might learn for the intranet world? The idea could be translated several ways. Perhaps intranet interfaces...

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