Every intranet should be unique to the organisation it serves. But some themes recur so frequently that they feel fundamental for an intranet to address. My company regularly does discovery work for intranet and digital workplace strategy. The team decided to look back across all the data we’d gathered in the last six years to see what patterns emerged. The sample covered nearly 8,000 survey responses...
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Microsoft's new communication sites look good, but don't yet provide full intranet publishing capabilities that internal communicators need....
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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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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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What's commonly found on the intranet home page, versus what people actually want....
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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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Sometimes, internal communication still seems to be too focused on big events and top-down messaging. A focus on corporate strategy, big events, mundane administration announcements and so on, leave the employee wondering what to do with this information, and consigning it to the ‘nice to know’ bucket....
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[frame]This post is part of a series that looks at what’s changed from an intranet manager perspective, in particular things employees will notice and improvements for site and content owners. SharePoint 2013 Series Is SharePoint 2013 worth waiting for? SharePoint 2013 for intranet sites (this post) SharePoint 2013 social features SharePoint 2013 for collaboration SharePoint 2013 digital workplace and mobile (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 governance, analytics and search (forthcoming) SharePoint 2013 user experience (forthcoming) See our summary webinar...
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Intranets have always straddled multiple functions, but with the growth of the digital workplace, balancing what is in and out of scope for an intranet is getting trickier. Often related initiatives such as SharePoint, Yammer, mobile access or BYOD risk confusing employees, but are not necessarily within the remit of the intranet manager to set their strategy. Here we present five guiding principles for that balancing act: 1. Don't Plan Your...
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