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 Ashenden attributes low intranet user adoption primarily to outdated publishing models, where a handful of authors create the intranet content.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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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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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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Today’s intranets are powerful platforms doing the work that intranets have traditionally done — and so much more. Aside from archiving documents, today’s intranets can push content to users, enable users to communicate with each other, and work on mobile devices, such as tablets and smart phones. But many organizations may find that adopting the
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In an earlier post, we talked about the advantages of filling out your intranet profile page. Especially in big organizations where staff members don’t meet each other in person, intranet profile pages help employees get familiar with each other and discover people with specific skills. This aids productivity and collaboration. In fact, more and more
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In Noodle intranet, each user has a profile page where users can share their contact information and other data. Sometime you want to add more information on the profile page than what’s included by default. You can do so by adding custom fields. This video shows you how:
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Recently, Jakob Nielsen reported that, while intranet design has improved, usability has gone down. According to Nielsen, 10 years ago, employees’ average success rate at carrying out basic intranet tasks was 75%. Now it’s 74%. You’d think that, with improvements in technology and design, today’s intranets would be easier to use, not harder. While that
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We’ve mentioned memes as a great way to spice things up in your intranet. In the blogging world, a meme is an idea starter or prompt used by various bloggers to create content (see examples below). A blogger usually creates a meme and then tags other bloggers to create content around the same meme. Bloggers
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We’ve been talking a lot about launching your intranet lately. This post continues on that thread with some ideas for using video during your intranet launch. First, a shout out to Ellen van Aken for collecting intranet launch videos. Her Sccop.it! page was a big help when researching this post. Thank you very much, Ellen!
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One of our clients asked me recently, “Do you have tips on a good intranet name?” At that time, I didn’t. Our intranet at Vialect is called, simply, “Our Noodle.” But that question sent me on a quest to discover how companies usually come up with a intranet name for their organizations. This blog post is
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