Financial services group Nordea released their new intranet phone book in late 2011. This took their people search on the intranet to an impressive new level. The main goals were to make it faster to find colleagues and increase collaboration between employees across the organization. How did they achieve these common intranet objectives?

I spoke to Jill Sandström and Michael Rosager from Digital Communications in Nordea. They told me that more than 30,000 Nordea employees from 13 countries have access to People Book.

Source: jboye.com Posted by admin 7 days, 8 hours, 45 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 24 days, 2 hours, 3 minutes ago

Voting is now open for the Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC) Intranet Homepage Design competition. It is clear that many of the entrants put a lot of thought and effort into their designs and it's good to see a few radical designs have also been put forward.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 54 days, 7 hours, 16 minutes ago

Bonnier Corporation, one of the largest consumer publishing groups in America, recently launched their new social intranet, powered by Intranet Connections, to provide improved navigation and design features to better suit the organizations entrepreneurial mindset. Amanda Chu, Operations Manager, gave us a look inside their social intranet. Bonnier’s home page design mirrors their company websites look and feel. This is a smart move as it immediately ties the intranet to Bonnier’s brand and modernizes t...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 64 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes ago

Vistors to Amazon.com will be familiar with the relevant link suggestions provided when you search for an item. Intranets built using SharePoint can also provide this functionality - and this has enormous benefits.

This article describes how to do this and the benefits that can be obtained from using this approach.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 79 days, 10 hours, 17 minutes ago

Have you ever looked at your organization's intranet home page, and thought 'I can do better than this'? Would you like to be recognized world-wide as an intranet design genius? Would you like to get your hands on a Kindle Fire (valued at $199)?  Well now is your big chance! The Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC) thinks intranet home pages are due for a radical overhaul and is sponsoring a competition, open to anyone, to design a USEFUL intranet home page.

Source: cibasolutions.typepad.com Posted by roowright 85 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes ago

Why is it that most intranets and websites are lumbered with top-heavy designs that waste up to 40% of the screen area and limit the amount of content that can be viewed?  With our readers increasingly viewing material on laptops, iPads and smart phones Malcolm Davison argues that we now urgently need to rethink our web page designs.

Source: writingfortheweb.tumblr.com Posted by MDavison 92 days, 13 hours, 36 minutes ago

Most partner extranets have a public homepage that fulfils two main purposes: allows existing members to log in and attempts to attract prospective members. As part of our market research for a client, we reviewed 12 such public homepages (as well as the rest of the acquisition content) and below we present a quick evaluation. The extranets belong to global technology companies with each operating a complex network of partners. Unfortunately, with the exception of Microsoft, the overall quality of the us...

Source: www.skyron.co.uk Posted by yannismarcou 117 days, 12 hours, 51 minutes ago

The game is changing and there’s a major shift happening in the way we design websites. I’ve been in endless meetings with heated discussions over website or intranet navigation and information architecture. Should the navigation be aligned following departmental structures, product lines or copied from the competitors?

Once the navigation has been decided, the actual implementation often turns out to be complex and expensive. Subsequently, online analytics has unfortunately shown that the navigation is...

Source: jboye.com Posted by admin 138 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes ago

Our intranet design contest has come to an end and we are happy to announce that Brent Nelson from the University Student Union at California State University, Northridge has won an ipad2! The USU intranet received an astounding 182 votes, congratulations! We recently spoke to Brent to learn more about USU’s intranet: How long have you been on Intranet Connections? We have been using Intranet Connections since the summer of 2005. What version are you currently using? We are currently running version...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 163 days, 6 hours, 51 minutes ago