This year’s Digital Workplace Trends survey (open in the second part of June) will be taking a look at some future scenarios.

Organizations often need to provide goals and plans for 3 to 5 years out. Knowing what other organizations are thinking about can help!

Source: netjmc.com Posted by admin 720 days, 20 hours, 7 minutes ago

Everyone knows what an intranet is: a website that’s internal to an organization and helps workers be more productive.

But though well understood, the term “intranet” isn’t exactly sexy. Is it time to replace it with “digital workplace,” as some are arguing?

Source: gigaom.com Posted by admin 721 days, 20 hours, 30 minutes ago

Thanks to Chris Mcgrath at Thoughtfarmer and to Richard Dennison at BT we now have an engaging and healthy debate about terms, naming and whether they matter.

One thing we know for sure is that employees, contractors and freelancers in any sized organisation could not give a hoot what the “tech stuff” they use in their day to day work is called. So why are those engaged in the intranet and digital workplace fields (myself included) so concerned with terminology? Probably because names gives us a sense of...

Source: www.ibforum.com Posted by bee 727 days, 9 hours ago

After 15 great year’s involvement with BT’s intranet, including 8 years as the BT Intranet manager, it’s time to move on to fresh opportunities.  Today is effectively my last day in BT before I go on holiday until the end of June.

As BT”s intranet manager, I have transformed the BT intranet strategy, governance, standards, knowledge sharing and publishing to an industry leading level of excellence.  The Intranet Benchmarking Forum have evaluated it as the best intranet overall and in each of their ca...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 729 days, 5 hours, 2 minutes ago

This post details the first step towards designing or re-designing your intranet – the system map. This map will define your intranet domains and give the first overall view of the domains that make up your intranet and the things that go in them.

Before any system map can be compiled it is important that in depth user and stakeholder research is carried out as well as a content inventory (see Content Value Analysis). The analysis of these activities will contribute towards populating the system map.

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Source: patrickcwalsh.wordpress.com Posted by admin 733 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes ago

The Government of British Columbia has the ‘most beautiful intranet’ of 2011, as voted by a panel of IBF experts during the finale of this year’s IBF 24.

Our three judges, IBF managing director Helen Day, art critic Jane Singer and former BT intranet manager Mark Morrell, singled out the Canadian province’s site for its stunning use of colour and photography, which it combines with strong functional elements.

Source: www.ibforum.com Posted by support 735 days, 21 hours, 5 minutes ago

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) sells kayaks and mountain climbing gear out of retail stores across Canada. The majority of MEC’s 1500 employees spend their time stocking shelves, maintaining displays, working the registers and answering questions from their outdoor fanatic customers.

With such a small portion of staff who sit in front of computers all day MEC is not exactly the poster child for a collaborative social intranet that makes knowledge sharing easy. And yet, after 18 months their social intranet, named Mondo, has taken on a huge role in the company’s culture and has seen outstanding adoption.

(Check out the full MEC case study with lots of graphs & screenshots.)

Source: www.thoughtfarmer.com Posted by bee 737 days, 20 hours, 48 minutes ago

From the outset of this post, it’s vital to point out that neither of the editors of Intranetizen are lawyers — reader, if we were, we’d not be publishing this, but would be charging you a small fortune for the next few paragraphs!

It is certain though that every intranet manager should be aware of a few key laws and their implications for the digital workspace you manage.

Source: intranetizen.com Posted by admin 743 days, 18 hours, 58 minutes ago

After a decade of operating the world's largest intranet with a single contractor in charge, the U.S. Navy has decided to replace it with something more fashionable.

It plans to unbundle the functions required to sustain the network and hold a series of competitions each year to see who can offer the best deal, with the Navy itself overseeing the integration of suppliers and services.

In theory, the new approach will provide greater functionality and flexibility to users, of whom there are 700,000. In practice, the new approach is an operational and budgetary disaster in the making.

Source: www.defpro.com Posted by admin 743 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes ago

Most intranets are not seen as essential to the functioning of an organization. This is because management is not convinced of their strategic value.

For a long time I have waited for the intranet to get due recognition within the organization. But if most organizations I've come across are any indication then intranets are still languishing.

Think of how important the Web has become to how we live and work. Does your intranet have the same prominence? Is it central to the functioning of your organization? If not, why not?

Source: www.gerrymcgovern.com Posted by bee 745 days, 19 hours, 26 minutes ago