6 Tips To Help You Revamp Your Intranet. What would you say are the most important characteristics for a successful company?
If the newspapers and relevant literature are to be believed, economies of scale, efficiency and productivity seem to be among the most desirable assets. 5 Ways to Make Your Intranet Homepage More Attractive and Useful. Of all the pages in your intranet, the homepage is one of the most important.
25 Ways to Use Wikis in Your Intranet - Michael Sampson on Collaboration. Www.intranetfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/Digital-Workplaces-Implementation-Checklist.pdf.
Should collaboration tools redefine internal communications’ role? « Mark Morrell Intranet Pioneer. Declining trust defines new role for intranets « Sharon O'Dea. The 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer, published last week, finds a deepening sense of distrust in governments, businesses and institutions.
The annual global study, which questioned 30,000 people in 25 countries, reveals a dramatic shift in the value people place in information sources – which, in turn, has some interesting implications for communicators and intranet managers. Across the globe, blame for the financial and political chaos of 2011 landed at the doorstep of government, as trust in that institution fell nine points to 43 per cent.
In seventeen of the 25 countries surveyed, government is now trusted by less than half to do what is right. In twelve, it trails business, media and non-governmental organizations as the least trusted institution. The private sector fared slightly better: trust in business fell from 56 percent to 53 percent, with countries like France and Germany, in the heart of the Eurozone economic crisis, experiencing double-digit decreases.
EBN Welcome Page. What you get if staff name your intranet - Webdogs 3.0.
Intranet wish list for 2012: poll results. Nearly 300 people voted recently on a LinkedIn poll asking the question: What is the one improvement to your intranet you would like to see in 2012?
The results are below. Over 30 comments were received nominating other improvements that people would like to see. Interestingly a number of these comments received 'likes' (ie the thumbs up) so it was almost as if an informal poll was also taking place. Of these additional comments, the following comment from Simon Thomson received 11 thumbs ups I'd like to see a little less "this is my section", a little less "this is what I want" and a little more "how can we help our colleagues do their jobs better" and "how can we help them feel they are important to the success of the company" This comment from Michael Broadhurst received 6 likes:
Five ways to encourage workforce feedback on the intranet. In considering ways to get more employees to provide feedback on an internal corporate site, as a client recently asked, it’s good to remember that feedback is provided when there is an assurance that the worker’s voice will be heard, considered and acted upon. This is a cultural issue, really. Companies modeling a consensual decision-making style will have no problem gathering employee feedback—since the culture is not risk-averse, but transparent and inclusive.
Contests or incentives are ill-advised, since they cut against the grain of the discretionary effort (engagement) and self-motivation required to capture authentic feedback. Direct appeal from a senior leader: A straightforward, honest and sincere appeal from a senior leader with skin in the game is the best way to approach this issue—and a senior leader blog is an appropriate channel. Once ingrained in the culture, feedback will flow. Improve Intranet Tools. “Thanks to the use of SnapComms tools, we have increased use of our intranet by more than 40% in the first year.” 10 Intranet Tips and Low Cost Tools: 10 Best Intranets of 2012. How to build a successful intranet.
By William Amurgis Is your organization’s intranet an unqualified success?
If so, congratulations – you’re likely in the minority. For the rest of us, we may often see glimpses of success, but continue to confront obstacles, or take missteps, or simply lose our way. I’ve worked on intranets since before the term was even coined (around 1995), and I’ve made plenty of mistakes. However, I’ve also stumbled into a few triumphs, and learned some important lessons along the way. Google Sites as a a corporate intranet? Pros and cons. Why most online communities are failures. By John Hagel and John Seely Brown, guest contributors FORTUNE -- As anyone who has started their own blog certainly knows, it takes all of an hour (if that) to create your very own space to share your most brilliant ponderings for the entire world to see.
But when it comes to building a space online that people want to visit regularly and contribute to, well, most of us never get there, and for good reason. It's really hard. Plenty of smart companies and organizations have put together their own online communities. Some are pulling this off brilliantly; others, not so much. Take AARP, for example. As participants' relationships deepen, they begin to move from a conversation to actually working together. The term "online community" is often used loosely and includes any sites that aggregate customers or an audience even though there is very little contribution by the participants or interaction among them.
Why should companies care about these online communities? Most employees don’t use intranet social media. Here’s how to fix that. Posted on November 21, 2011 1:15 pm by Shel Holtz | Intranets | Social Media For years, employees have been subjected to the “Godspeed” method of their employers introducing new communication technologies to the workplace.
Here’s how it works: The IT department configures the new technology, subjecting it to rigorous testing to ensure that the bits get to where they’re supposed to go and that the tool works they way it’s supposed to without interfering with other systems. Once they’re sure the technology works right, they issue the following instructions to the workforce: Intranet navigation in the age of icons, content, icons, findability. Thanks for visiting the Digital Workplace Group (DWG) website.
You'll see this post may refer to the "Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF)," the "Digital Workplace Forum (DWF)" or "IBF Live. " But that doesn't match our website name! Corporate Communications on Your Intranet: A recap of IBF Live. IBF Live is a live broadcast featuring intranet tours and speakers supporting the movement from simply intranet software to a digital workplace where the intranet is the place to get work done. In their November 1st episode, the focus was to find out the benefit of Corporate Communications on your intranet. During the 90 minute broadcast, we went inside three very different sites. First to present was Rose Tedesco, the communications manager at Commonwealth Medicine, UMass Medical School’s health care consulting division. What is the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC)... Intranet Remains Poor Stepchild Of Corporate Websites - The BrainYard. Blogs, wikis gain role in corporate intranets, but few enterprises have a Facebook-style or Twitter-like home page, survey shows.
Slideshow: 20 Great Ideas To Steal (click image for larger view and for full slideshow) Enterprises are adopting social tools like blogs and wikis for use inside their companies, but having a social media style home page for the corporate intranet is still rare, according to a study. 50 Ways to a Better Intranet. There are a number of activities that will help you to deliver a more valuable intranet.
In the list of 50 I have comprised, here's a look at the first 20. 5 Steps to Build a 'How To' Intranet. A look at corporate intranet trends around the world.