To coincide with my last post ‘Why you need a mobile strategy‘ in my current series on the mobile workspace, I was interviewed by the Journal of Internal Communication for an article about the potential of mobile devices when developing internal communications strategies. I gave my views on the importance of people using mobile devices to be communicated with and to communicate and collaborate with other people while away from their normal place of work.

People have always been outside of the office space however, mobile technology now enables you to get messages out to them quickly – something that wasn’t possible in the past. This doesn’t only affect remote workers or employees who travel a lot: work is increasingly shifting towards mobile devices....

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 2 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes ago

By Ephraim Freed · Leave a comment Maybe it’s just that I’m drunk on many hours of intranets and the lack of sleep that comes with a 24-hour event like Digital Workplace 24, but I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy after seeing AMP’s new intranet.

From the second I saw The Hub being presented by Luke Sinclair (@lukesinclair) I realized I was looking at an intranet crafted with tremendous care.

Source: www.digitalworkplacegroup.com Posted by admin 7 days, 3 hours, 37 minutes ago

We are conducting the annual intranet design competition to identify the world's 10 best intranets. The top ten winners will be announced in January 2014.

Think you have a good intranet? Enter it for the award. Previous years' winners received substantial publicity and recognition from being honored in the Design Annuals.

Eligible designs

Anything that runs inside a company and is not accessible on the public Web, including:

• Company-wide intranets

• Department-specific intranets

• Solutions to internal communications problems through intranet technology

• Internal Web-based applications

• Extranets

Intranets in any language are welcome, though the description in the entry document should be in English. The intranet should be functioning, not only prototyped or planned, at the time of the entry.

Deadline for entries: On or before Wednesday, 26 June, 2013

Source: www.nngroup.com Posted by admin 7 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes ago

It’s my favourite time of year: Intranet conference time! When a bunch of clever and talented people come together to talk about all things intranetty.

James Robertson from StepTwo Designs set the scene for us with a call to action: Intranets Unite! Backed up with some group fist pumping and a well designed sticker (need more stickers) James took the topic from intranets being a tool for uniting people through to the united nature of the intranet community (something I wholeheartedly feel).

Source: rebeccajacksonblogs.wordpress.com Posted by admin 7 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes ago

Today social media is a new buzzword for businesses and companies, which help in networking, sharing information, forming online community and managing the brands reputation along with other things like crowd sourcing and social CRM.

In fact, you have a big list to follow when it comes to using social media for business purposes. One of the key phrases you must be hearing a lot these days includes the employee engagement.

With this idea a good amount of focus is given over the methods of engagements. Now, companies and businesses are seen measuring the ways of leveraging the social technologies to engage one of their key people- the employees. With this you could hear terms like company or corporate intranet, which is nothing but a platform wherein the employees are seen managing their professional activities including money transactions, life events, career and even health.

Now with social media, the intranet has reached to the next level wherein you could see a blend of static content and social technologies. These are meant to improve their day to day activities thus making them more productive, efficient and engaged in the company.

Source: www.seoandy.com Posted by admin 9 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes ago

In the highly dynamic, fast moving world of Intranets and Digital Workplaces, the need for orientation understandably is a big one. Where does my organization stand? Where does the journey go? This overview of Intranet and Digital Workplace Maturity Models is intended to get you started.

The need for orientation is where maturity models come into play. They try to give orientation in regard to your current position and also as to where you can go from there. There has been quite some critique in regard...

Source: intranet-matters.de Posted by admin 9 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes ago

The Intranet Innovation Awards are now open for entries, with a closing date of May 31. For the judges of the Awards, this is like the week before Christmas, waiting to see what presents will be under the tree.

To further build the sense of anticipation, we’ve asked the judging panel what entries they’d love to see. This is wha...

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by admin 9 days, 16 hours, 4 minutes ago

Markus Mather from Tieto, the largest Nordic IT firm in the world, presented the company’s intranet and I watched with both admiration and jealousy.

Tieto’s intranet may be the best operationalized social intranet I’ve ever seen. At first glance their homepage feed looks basic and a little dry. But the content is highly personalized, is social, and the interface is clean. Tieto’s...

Source: www.digitalworkplacegroup.com Posted by admin 8 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes ago

As promised, we've published the code for the WordPress theme based on the DCMS intranet.

You can get the theme code from the Helpful Technology GitHub under the 'Helpful intranet' repository.

To accompany the code, we've also released anintranet showcase site where you can have a look at a working version of the intranet theme based on content from the DCMS intranet.

You can't post in the forums. We've removed all downloadable documents linked from content, and recent news is made of dummy te...

Source: intranetdiary.blogspot.nl Posted by admin 8 days, 3 hours, 42 minutes ago

Group Health Cooperative gave the hosts of IBF Live a tour of its new, though not entirely finished intranet, which is the result of considerable employee input.

You think you've been using your intranet for a long time? Group Health Cooperative probably has you beat. Its new intranet, which launched last year, is the "first successful refresh since 1992," Becky Kaplan Farone, GHC's senior manager for intranet and information resources, told the hosts of the April edition of Intranet Benchmarking Forum's IBF Live broadcast.

The new intranet, which isn't entirely finished but is through its first phase of work, includes big changes to its home page, the search functions and navigation, and the staff directory. There are more revisions to come, Farone said.

Source: www.healthcarecommunication.com Posted by admin 11 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes ago