When employees are engaged, they work harder and help the company perform better. To create more powerful employee engagement in your organization, try implementing these five tips.

1. Clarify what's expected of employees
2. Offer internal career opportunities
3. Empower frontline employees
4. Encourage teamwork
5. Provide regular feedback

Source: www.ragan.com Posted by support 292 days, 20 hours, 3 minutes ago

Intranet governance, especially social intranet governance, is tough. We believe intranet governance matters and that it is a crucial factor in the success or failure of an intranet implementation.

We help our ThoughtFarmer clients in their intranet roll-outs by doing a review of some basic governance topics, providing links to some great resources from folks like Martin White, James Robertson, Maish Nichani, and Toby Ward, and by asking a lot of questions.

I’ve compiled some of the big questions that we find lead to important discussions when it comes to intranet governance and management. While long, it’s by no means an exhaustive list — as always, we appreciate hearing what questions you’ve found helpful in making your own intranet decision-making process that much better.

Source: www.thoughtfarmer.com Posted by admin 294 days, 19 hours, 53 minutes ago

Supercharge your intranetLondon Intranet Conference

Interaction 2011 is a focused intranet conference based in London that brings together some of the world’s best intranet speakers. It is open to Intranet Managers, Communications, HR and IT professionals as well as anyone with a keen interest in intranets. Learn about social intranets, intranet governance, mobile intranets and much more!

Source: www.intranetconference.com Posted by lindabolg 295 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes ago

Intranet Roadshow 2011 – Accelerating Business Results

Date:Thursday, 15th September, 2011 Time:9.30 -1.00 pm Location: London, UK

Innovative companies no longer communicate just at their employees – they communicate with them. Join us at the Intranet Roadshow, listen to Interact's intranet experts to find out how collaborative and intelligent intranets are transforming the way organisations work.

This half-day event will provide everything you need to know about creating a successful intranet which drives real innovation and productivity...

Source: www.interact-intranet.com Posted by lindabolg 295 days, 23 hours, 53 minutes ago

In my last post ‘Must have digital workplace principles’ I highlighted the framework your organisation needs to adopt to gain the maximum benefit. To have a successful digital workplace (which I now define as ‘work is what you do, not where you go to’) organisations must have the right strategy, culture, environment and infrastructure to exploit the benefits fully. It needs to become the natural way of working so everyone is more effective and productive and your organisation more efficient and successf...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 298 days, 7 hours, 24 minutes ago

In May I shared details of Carphone Warehouse's award-winning business process management deployment, noting the IT organization "marketed" the initiative by creating a brand for it called How2. When it was launched to 1,000 call center agents, the lights were turned off and each agent got a plastic bag that said, “How2 Is in the Bag.” When the lights were turned on, employees got t-shirts and other swag with a How2 logo. As I wrote, "IT organizations might scoff at handing out tchotkes. But those that try to inject some fun into projects are likely to enjoy a better rate of success."

While the "fun factor" can improve adoption for almost any enterprise software, I think it's especially important for systems for which usage is voluntary. I recently read two pieces that highlighted companies that experienced great success in getting employees to use their intranets, largely by making them fun to visit.

Source: www.itbusinessedge.com Posted by admin 307 days, 1 hour, 34 minutes ago

Many organisation have deployed or are planning to roll out SharePoint 2010.  They will use it as a collaboration platform and / or intranet.  But many organisations struggle to realise the full rewards that SharePoint 2010 will offer if implemented well. Do you know how to use SharePoint 2010 successfully? How is the best way to roll it out? Should you migrate to SharePoint 2010? How is SharePoint different from other intranet tools? These questions and more are addressed in a workshop I will be ru...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 309 days, 8 hours, 1 minute ago

This is one in a series of posts from our Real Intranet Manager Interviews where we highlight the creative and thoughtful people behind successful intranets of all types.

Read more about the series, or see previous posts on Christy Season of SCANA, William Amurgis of AEP and Dinesh Tantri from ThoughtWorks.

Tanis Roadhouse’s social intranet marathon

Just two days after I spoke with Tanis Roadhouse, the Collaboration & Intranet Manager for MD Physican Services / Canadian Medical Association (CMA), she ran her first marathon, a fitting metaphor for her social intranet success. Even though MD Physician Services and the CMA implemented out-of-the-box social intranet software (ThoughtFarmer) for their shared intranet Verve, they didn’t go live until a full year after Tanis first started the project.

The intranet team spent much of that year rigorously gathering requirements, engaging stakeholders, learning and planning in the lead up to launching Verve. And while they had a very successful launch in February 2011, it wasn’t seen as the end of the project; rather it was really just the start of the second phase.

To understand their project and their blueprint for success, it’s important to first learn about Tanis’ background.

Source: www.thoughtfarmer.com Posted by bee 310 days, 1 hour, 58 minutes ago

I've been in my current role for almost 2 years so I thought it was about time I sat down and write some "tips" for new Intranet Managers.

For those who know me you'll know that I wasn't always an Intranet Manager, my background is as a Library Professional and I'd worked in a number of organisations as an Information Professional before I realised my skills lay firmly at the technology door. That doesn't mean I'm not still an Information Professional of course.

So it's in that context that I prese...

Source: www.therunninglibrarian.co.uk Posted by admin 311 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes ago

A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but what about a blog?

That was one of many intranet-related questions the hosts and guests of this month’s IBF Live broadcast from the Intranet Benchmarking Forum considered in Tuesday’s 90-minute program, which included intranet tours from architectural firm Woods Bagot, the provincial government of British Columbia and Fathom Online Marketing.

Source: www.ragan.com Posted by bee 312 days, 18 hours, 32 minutes ago