Intranet Lounge

Tell us a little bit about the project and its history.

The BC Public Service, an organization of 30,000 employees across an immense (and gorgeous) province, relaunched its corporate intranet in April 2010. In just 50 working days from development to production, a tiny team built an interactive intranet to support employee communications and collaboration. This work was completed within the existing site budget using an open-source platform.

Obviously you had an intranet before. What worked well with the past version? What were the biggest problems?

@Work already had a robust user base and was the main communications vehicle for the BC Public Service. What worked well on the old site was the use of rich content to attract viewers: corporate announcements, employee profiles, executive updates, videos and audiocasts. Readers participated in weekly polls, and a comment board was most visited portion of the site.

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