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 Ashenden attributes low intranet user adoption primarily to outdated publishing models, where a handful of authors create the intranet content.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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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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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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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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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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More and more it seems companies want their intranets to resemble social networking sites. Facebook, to be exact. Just last week, during a product demo, the prospect asked, “Can I ‘like’ an item?” In fact, some organizations use Facebook itself as their intranet, or at least to provide the “social” part of their intranet. Are
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