If you want to get staff more involved and engaged in the intranet, then an intranet contest could be an excellent idea. Contests are motivating and fun. By participating in a contest, staff can also learn more about how to use certain features of the intranet. On top of that, contests are quite easy to […]
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Recently, the good folks over at Intranetizen published a post saying, “video is not the answer to your communication problem.” I respectfully disagreed, and that has inspired this post, in which I talk about when video is the best answer to an internal communication problem. Video is often a more effective communication tool than text
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Bad health is bad for business. According to a recent study, employees’ medical expenditures already eat up 50 percent or more of company profits. Add to that the cost of absenteeism and loss of productivity due to illness. The clear takeaway is this: companies can no longer afford to ignore their employees’ health. Your company intranet
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There’s no doubt that today’s information technologies have given us more personal freedoms, but the same thing can’t be said of freedoms at work. Here at the Noodle blog, we’ve previously talked about the importance of giving employees more freedom to express themselves. The company intranet has a big role in providing this freedom. However,
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As you’re reading this, I’m on a road trip with hubby. So this is going to be a short list again, with nothing but this week’s articles that you cannot miss if you’re an intranet manager:
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Now that we’re in the second half of 2013, it’s interesting to come across articles like a previous post entitled, “5 intranet trends for 2013 and beyond” by Guy van Leemput. This post is actually a reflection on van Leemput’s earlier post on intranet trends published two years ago in 2011. At the time, some of
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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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