Sharing highlights from one of our assessment scenarios - along with the scores for 20 intranet products....
Read MoreSharing highlights from one of our assessment scenarios - along with the scores for 20 intranet products....
Read MoreWhen people say ‘The intranet’ there are often many more sites involved than just the ‘corporate intranet’ and many won’t realise. Here’s a model of how navigation and search works for a growing SharePoint Online intranet....
Read MoreIntranets can work really well when considered in isolation, but if the surrounding area has dozens of disconnected communication sites, it's time to reassess....
Read MoreOf course you want one, and so do I. But is a global menu strictly necessary? Here's what to say and do when you can't sort it out....
Read MoreHow does your intranet affect your ability to reach colleagues, communicate important matters, and start dialogues? The intranet may be the foundation of your digital internal communications, but it has to be designed and configured in the right way. Continuous improvement is needed if your intranet and digital comms are to keep up with organisation change and business objectives....
Read MoreIs the ‘HR section’ of your intranet by HR for everyone else, or by HR for HR, or both? It’s a knotty question that needs untangling....
Read MoreAt 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...
Read MoreWith SharePoint 2010, Microsoft introduced some very flexible tools for representing metadata on intranets. However, getting value from this requires that business units take ownership of it, and the available documentation tends to focus on the "how" rather than the "why".ClearBox therefore presented a workshop at IntraTeam 2012 on SharePoint Metadata: What Business Users Need to Know. Sharepoint metadata workshop from Sam Marshall [frame] Want to...
Read MoreCommunication vs. CollaborationImagine if you are going to buy a new sofa, and instead of entering a showroom you are taken straight into the workshop. Inside there are rolls of fabric, wooden frames of part-built sofas, others that look nearly finished but you can’t quite tell. You pick out one that you like only to be told that it’s last year’s model and no longer...
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