Social collaboration is a hot button topic when it comes to intranets, although for many organizations it can be a tough sell. Here are a few points to consider when thinking about dipping the proverbial toe into the tidal wave of social and how you can potentially get buy-in from your decision makers. First we’ll start with how social tools including our new Facebook-like message walls empower employees and benefits the intranet and your company: 1)      Social tools gives employees easy to use and fam...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 8 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes ago

HomeAbout meMy servicesHow to gain the full benefits of SharePoint 2010How to work anywhere, anytime with any device in a digital workplaceHow to improve communications using collaborative toolsHow to develop an intranet strategyHow to construct a successful business caseHow to design a framework for intranet roles and responsibilitiesHow to strengthen relationships and gain better support for an intranetHow to implement change and technology projects successfullyHow employees can rely on the integrity o...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 10 days, 14 hours, 54 minutes ago

You want to know what’s happening in your company? Talk to the guy who picks up the phone.

Customer service. It’s a 24-hour-a-day arrivals lounge area for pissed-off customers, and people who can’t read a manual. CS agents are often some of the most undervalued people in the company – but they’re a great internal communications resource.When a product blows up, they get yelled at.When a brilliant new product comes out, they get yelled at by people who just bought the old one.When a price-rise kicks i...

Source: www.internal-communication.com Posted by ianharris 14 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes ago

“If we gave you a team site, would it be useful to you?”

We’ve said before that the breadth of SharePoint is both its strength and weakness. Intranet and project teams now have a powerful new tool to help the organisation work better, but what features to deploy?

The classic technology-centric approach is to talk to stakeholders in each business area, asking questions such as:

• What additional capabilities do you want on the intranet?

• Which of the following features would be useful to you?

• If you had (feature), how could you make use of it?

• What can we do with the new version of SharePoint?

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by admin 17 days, 6 hours, 29 minutes ago

There are a number of legal issues that intranet managers need to be aware of, and some apply to websites and any application with a web browser even if it is not an intranet.

Let me start by saying that I am not a lawyer and I guess you are not one either, so the information and advice I have set out below needs to be verified with the legal team in your organization.

In this column I am only addressing accessibility issues and the use of photographs on intranets.

There are many other issues!

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 16 days, 6 hours, 26 minutes ago

Top 12 intranet blogs of 2011 written by Intranet managers and independent consultants

2011 was a great year in the world of intranets – there were more dedicated conferences than ever and there were some riveting debates over Twitter and in various blogs about the future of the intranet.

As we go into the first full week of January we thought we’d list some of our favourite intranet blog posts written by Intranet Managers and Independent Consultants in 2011.

Here is our complete top 12 list, in no particular order:

Source: www.interact-intranet.com Posted by InteractIntranet 16 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes ago

HomeAbout meMy servicesHow to gain the full benefits of SharePoint 2010How to work anywhere, anytime with any device in a digital workplaceHow to improve communications using collaborative toolsHow to develop an intranet strategyHow to construct a successful business caseHow to design a framework for intranet roles and responsibilitiesHow to strengthen relationships and gain better support for an intranetHow to implement change and technology projects successfullyHow employees can rely on the integrity o...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 16 days, 10 hours, 29 minutes ago

There has been a massive rise in the use of tablet computers, especially the iPad, over the last year. Initially they were seen as a clever piece of engineering with limited business application. But now businesses are taking this technology very seriously. In this blog article Malcolm Davison explores the benefits of tablets over laptops. Could we be seeing a wholesale switchover from laptop to tablets from laptops driven by busy executives on the move? And should intranets and websites be reconfigured to meet this transition?

Source: writingfortheweb.tumblr.com Posted by MDavison 15 days, 14 hours, 44 minutes ago

Yammer is a social network tool for internal communication. Tweet So is there anybody not yammering on about Yammer? Yammer is the social networking platform currently taking internal communication by storm. Half of the profession seems to be either rolling out Yammer, or thinking about it.Yammer is a private internal social network that’s exclusive to your employees. It’s basically Facebook, with posts about projects instead of hangovers. You need to be familiar with Yammer even if you’re not thinkin...

Source: www.internal-communication.com Posted by ianharris 18 days, 4 hours, 45 minutes ago

Intranet discussions have been dominated by the subject of social tools since 2009: Twitter and Facebook for the enterprise; increase rapid productivity with rapid connectivity; break down silos with social tools; capture implicit employee knowledge; build knowledge communities using social; etc. The list goes on.

However, I am not entirely convinced that social tools ala Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn (status updates, following colleagues, commenting, and news feeds) can provide measurable business value. I’ve heard colloquial accounts and give merit to the arguments that they help capture organizational knowledge, that they contribute to the organizational story and that they connect employees across boundaries (both physical and hierarchical). Still, I’m on the fence.

Source: www.sharepointanalysthq.com Posted by admin 18 days, 7 hours, 42 minutes ago