When it comes to keeping your intranet useful and relevant, it’s essential to identify content that has become obsolete — so you can either archive or delete it. As intranet experts have observed, the amount of content in an intranet is inversely proportional to its usability. The more content you have in your intranet, the […]
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Should you use your intranet to allow employee self-expression? Some companies are afraid of allowing employees to express their individuality. They suppress uniqueness by effecting strict dress codes and banishing outlandish hairdos, for example. Yet other companies credit individual expression and freedom for the high level of employee engagement in their organization. One such company
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Of all the pages in your intranet, the homepage is one of the most important. As the portal to your intranet, the homepage has the power to captivate users with its energy and personality… or to repel them with its irrelevance. In fact, intranet consultant James Robertson identifies as many as 7 different roles your
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Is your intranet all work and no play? Is it strictly business, with no room for humor or plain fun? If your goal is to increase productivity, then you’d want to rethink the flavor of your intranet. I’m currently reading “The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance
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If your office intranet allows you to create a profile, I suggest you fill it in as as well as you can. Just like in social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn, profiles are usually the starting point of connections in an intranet. This blog post explores why.
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Are you hesitant to write an internal blog, because you’re worried of being seen as having too much time on your hands? Unfortunately, despite internal blogging’s role in increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in the workplace, there is an impression that only those who are not busy enough at their jobs, blog. This is a
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Lack of participation is one of the main problems of intranets. A good way to increase intranet participation is by understanding what motivates people to participate in the first place. In the AIIM white paper, “When Social Meets Business Real Work Gets Done,” Bert Sandie, Director of Technical Excellence at the Electronic Arts University, sites
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Noodle has many applications but that doesn’t guarantee intranet success. Noodle contains a powerful feature that will help ensure your intranet is a success. The Corporate Wisdom feature encourages people to contribute and review content within Noodle. What’s your Corporate Wisdom? Many collaboration and intranet projects fail due to inactivity. This inactivity is the result
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Engaging with users and changing with ROI in mind Every year Intranets become more important to corporations and with the rise of familiar social networking tools in 2010 this year was no different. I don’t know of any published statistics but I bet Corporate Intranets were likely accessed more in 2010 then they were in
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