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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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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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 Ashenden attributes low intranet user adoption primarily to outdated publishing models, where a handful of authors create the intranet content.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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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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It’s easy to organize content the way you want in Noodle intranet. If you don’t do anything, Noodle will arrange applications and sections alphabetically. However, you can easily override this and change the order of sections and applications. Watch this video to see how: If you have questions about this video, post them in
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