In this blog article I will explain why a social intranet is a great way to bring value to your organization in three ways. This is the first part and in this article I will focus on the power of innovation.

As we know knowledge as a resource becomes more important in this fast growing world every day. Markets have always been rough on organizations who didn’t keep up with innovations and now that markets become more global the competition gets even harder. Organizations need new ideas and an ongoing supply of innovations because otherwise they will very quickly be left behind the competition.

To understand how innovative power can be added to your organization it is important to take a look at how creative new ideas develop in an organization. Amabile said that creativity can be enhanced by three components:

1. Expertise
2. Creative thinking skills
3. and Motivation

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Everyone is naturally resistant to reading masses of text on screen, so why do people still insist on publishing at length as if they were writing for print? Malcolm Davison of writingfortheweb.co.uk links you to a useful program from the Plain English Campaign that your content creators can use to improve their work.

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Fresh on the horizon for me is the "One Intranet" project that will merge intranets from many organisations into one with a vision of saving money and improving efficiency. This is a great opportunity to rethink the intranet within the workplace and to put in place some governance and strategy around content.

I've had my head in our public website for a while now and the intranet has been bubbling along in terms of content updates and section changes. But there has been no real development in terms o...

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This is the last post in a series answering the question “Can collaboration tools improve internal communications?” covering the right culture needed within an organisation, the redefining of internal communicators’ role and how collaboration tools and features can help improve internal communications.

I now want to discuss how I believe discussion forums can add to the richness of existing internal communication channels and not be a threat that needs to be closed down. I’m going to illustrate this with three examples.

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Our Business Solutions team has not used InfoPath very often. It is really a very cool tool, and I love its transparency, but people often experienced an access denied or other annoying error message that prevented them from working with it. It may have had to do with our customization.

Next to that, some forms can be very complex, especially when you need different views for different people, or if they take data from other systems. I have had to refuse support for one of those forms. And we have had more issues...read on!

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Carolyn Douglas | No comments | Add a comment Many organizations are not ready for internal social media but are aware that social networking may play a future role on the intranet. Starting with no social, some social, or full-use of social tools (aka a social intranet) needs some up-front thought and planning. In the “pro” column for having a social intranet:ParticipationContributionCollaborationPeople Helping PeopleLeadership / MentoringEmpowers and EngagesDrives culture A social intranet can intro...

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In what ways can intranet professionals contribute value to an organisation by facilitating innovation or improving operations?

Read about the innovation to operation life-cycle and how intranet and communication professionals can contribute and all phases of this life-cycle.

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We’ve all heard the spiel about the digital workplace improving every corner of your business, transforming the way employees work. Intranets, we’re told, are a productivity engine, making everyone’s life a little easier. Yet despite this, intranets rarely get much attention from bigwigs. And when they do, it’s often negative.

One sure-fire way to get your execs to sit up and take notice is to win an award. Here the Intranetizen team offer five reasons to enter (and win) award schemes...

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Time is money, in particular when you work at an accountancy firm with billable hours as the key revenue stream. Still, how do you get employees to track their time regularly and make sure their time sheets are up-to-date?

At accountancy firm BDO Danmark, a part of BDO International, they have managed to turn time tracking into an intranet killer app by making the unusual decision to place it prominently on the intranet front page. In less than 6 months after launch, the average number of working days t...

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You’ve been feeling low, you have no energy and you’re starting to get worried. You go to the doctor who, after checking a few vital parameters, tells you there’s nothing major wrong and prescribes some medication that will help you get back to normal. We would never dream of taking chances with our health so we get regular check ups and, if the worst comes to the worst, we hope that anything major is caught early enough to be able to do something about it.

This is just common sense isn’t it?  Yet organizations can expend huge resources on their intranets and communication systems but generally have no idea of how healthy they are at any one time.

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