No this isn’t about obesity, it is about a key aspect to the Judge Group’s intranet redesign.  At a recent J. Boye Boston Intranet group meeting Dan Lewis, Intranet Manager for the Judge Group, spoke about his intranet redesign.  Dan chose a “search first” design approach but he knew some users would need navigation aides to get to content.  The question was how to handle navigation. Dan didn’t want a cluttered page with navigation, so he used a concept called “fat footer”:

If you’ve ever been part of...

Source: jboye.com Posted by admin 61 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes ago

Good intranet managers are able to slice and dice their customers in many ways. Thanks to all the work they have done with personas, they may even have pictures of them up on the wall of their office, or more likely, desk divider. Each day they will be worrying about the user experience of these customers, and it’s difficult to tell them that their customers are actually not that concerned by the user experience.

These customers are captive and clever. They come to work each day knowing every twist and turn of the corporate intranet, together with a list of quick dial numbers they can use when they need information urgently and cannot find it. Even if they are performing multiple tasks and multiple roles I suspect that these customers will only be using a small percentage, may be only 0.5%, of the pages on the intranet. Don’t be too depressed — that is still a lot of pages in most companies.

Source: www.cmswire.com Posted by admin 76 days, 5 hours, 38 minutes ago

Nearly one year ago an employee told Katy Fisk that they weren’t happy with their current intranet. Katy is the HR Manager at Trintech, the leading global provider of integrated software solutions for The Last Mile of Finance. She took this statement as a challenge and wanted to prove that their intranet could deliver in great functionality. Katy approached IT and downloaded our current feature white paper to identify what new tools, already bundled into their intranet software, could be leveraged in the...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 89 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes ago

This is a guest blog post from a true intranet champion, Peter Barron. Peter is the Internet Services Manager at Rio Rancho Public Schools and two things stand out when you talk to Peter: he has an infectious passion for intranets and he is one smart guy. Peter has 10+ years under his belt with Intranet Connections. We recently had a conversation about his challenge to get buy-in for staff photos on their intranet, RioNet, and he graciously agreed to share his insights.

School districts are populated...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 98 days, 9 hours, 14 minutes ago

Nearly 300 people voted recently on a LinkedIn poll asking the question: What is the one improvement to your intranet you would like to see in 2012? The results are in this article.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 110 days, 18 hours, 7 minutes ago

Announcing the winner of the 2011 Intranet Home Page Design competition....it is a radical departure from the typical news centric intranet.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 131 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes ago

Over the years, we have used Team Sites extensively for managing and working in projects. Depending on the type of project, we have used them in different ways: - Simple Projects: stand-alone Team Sites - Recurring projects: Team Site with templated subsites - Multiple projects: 1. PMO Team Site - Multiple projects: 2. Program Site Collection.

Read on to learn more.

Source: mydigitalworkplace.wordpress.com Posted by http://ellenvanaken.wordpress.com/ 140 days, 6 hours, 40 minutes ago

I believe there are several reasons why intranets do not look as clean and polished as business to consumer (B-to-C) websites.

First off they are thought of as behind the scenes. Since only employees are viewing your intranet it’s not as important that it has the slick look and feel that a commercial site has.

Second, the CMS that the intranet is built on is typically not easy to design for. It’s chosen and utilized primarily for it’s functionality and not it’s looks.

Source: designingtheenterprise.com Posted by admin 163 days, 5 hours, 42 minutes ago

When I was developing snack products,  I was never allowed to talk about my work with people outside my company. Others might copy our ideas! But in intranets, things are really different!That is because only the content can be confidential, but not the design, navigation etc.

Source: wp.me Posted by http://ellenvanaken.wordpress.com/ 173 days, 6 hours, 43 minutes ago

BlogAbout meIntranet expertsMedia engagementsMy experienceMy servicesDesign an intranet home page and win a Kindle!November 10, 2011 at 11:48 am | Posted in homepage, intranet | Leave a comment Tags: homepage, intranet

You have the chance to design what you believe is a useful hompage with the added incentive of winning a Kindle.  Surely this is one of the easier decisions for intranet professionals to make! When I look  back at the BT Intranet homepage versions over the years I was there and the ...

Source: intranet-pioneer.com Posted by markmorrell 190 days, 16 hours, 31 minutes ago