Employee Engagement

Solving Low Intranet Adoption: Why Employees Resist & How to Fix It

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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 Ashenden attributes low intranet user adoption primarily to outdated publishing models, where a handful of authors create the intranet content.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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Gamification in the Workplace: Trend or True Engagement Booster?

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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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Reignite Employee Engagement: Strategies to Boost Morale & Productivity

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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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This Week’s Must-Read Blog Posts (July 8-12, 2013)

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Lots of good articles are being published every day about enterprise 2.0, the digital workplace, productivity, and intranets. Here are a few that made an impression this week:   Enterprise 2.0 Tech delivers More Knowledge Assets This post explores how enterprise 2.0 helps create, manage, aggregate knowledge assets, and make them more useful and usable

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How Your Intranet Can Boost Creativity in the Workplace

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Of all the benefits of a company intranet, increasing creativity is one of the lesser known. We often talk about how the intranet can improve productivity, facilitate communication, and help fuel innovation. But creativity and the intranet? Hardly ever mentioned. Maybe it’s because creativity is less valued in most companies. It’s certainly hard to put

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Essential Summer Reading for Intranet Managers

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Before you head to the lake or board the flight to your summer vacation, load your Kindle with these titles. You’ll return refreshed, recharged, and reinvigorated to make your company intranet the best it has ever been. 1. Enterprise 2.0: Social Networking Tools to Transform Your Organization (Jessica Keyes, 2012) This is good reading for

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Are Your Employees Getting the Most Out of Your Intranet?

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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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Encouraging Intranet Users to Complete Their Profiles: Best Practices

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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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3 Effective Approaches to Intranet User Training

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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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