I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a busy weekend planned, so let’s keep this week’s recommended reading list short: How to Make Yourself Indispensable at Work Don’t suck up, never suck up. But do make yourself a truly valuable employee by following this advice.
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The marketing department can benefit greatly from the company intranet. Don’t let disorganization get in the way of your message. Marketers need inputs from various sources — top, down, peers, internal, and external — to do their jobs properly. The intranet can also speed up marketing-related business processes, such as approvals for materials. And being
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Because I’ve been away on holiday, this week’s list of recommended posts is going to be short. (And by holiday, I mean a real holiday when peeking into work email or even thinking about work is absolutely prohibited. Have you had one? It’s great, you should try it.) Here are this week’s blog posts I
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Jakob Nielsen, PhD is the universal expert on web usability. Here are some of the many titles bestown upon him: “king of usability,” “guru of web page usability,” “smartest person on the web,” and “the web’s usability czar.” So when Nielsen tells us that the following are the 10 general principles to achieve the highest
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Want to catch up on what I’ve been reading about productivity, intranets, and enterprise networks? Below are some posts I recommend:
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The never-ending problem for intranets is getting staff to actually use them. In this recent article, Angela Ashenden, Principal Analyst at MWD Advisors, analyzes why no one uses the company intranet. Ashenden attributes low intranet user adoption primarily to outdated publishing models, where a handful of authors create the intranet content. Each piece of content
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A lot of blog posts caught my eye this week. Here are some I recommend you read on your down time: Productivity
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More and more people seem to be peddling gamification in the enterprise, and it’s working. An increasing number of companies are “gamifying” their processes, or want to. For many, the solution to re-engaging employees and improving employee training lies in gamification. Maybe I’m old-fashioned. Maybe I’m too old to fully appreciate the power of games.
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Noodle intranet software was recently included in Social Enterprise Times’ Vendor Scanner 2013. It was both fun and challenging to answer their questions, mainly because I’ve never been asked some of them before. You know, questions like “How can I get my data out at the end of our relationship?” Social Enterprise Times is a
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Things are not looking up for the state of the American workplace. According to a Gallup report, only 3 out of 10 employees are engaged at work. This lack of engagement reduces productivity and, ultimately, profits. Employee engagement is an important element in the workplace — and one that your company intranet can play a
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