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, 34 minutes ago

Every company operating on a global basis is interested in having all their employees worldwide identify with the company Many companies use an “Intranet” web site for this purpose. But oftentimes, the design can be flawed, and even lead to disconnects with global employees. Do you think the design of your intranet makes employees worldwide truly identify with your company?

Let me set the stage: The intranet affects all employees in all countries, not just the headquarters location. Close your eyes and try to put yourself in your employees’ shoes. Next, go to your company’s intranet and see it through their eyes.

Source: internationalhr.wordpress.com Posted by support 527 days, 14 hours ago

In my last post ‘Great intranets help make efficient people’ I talked briefly about the BT A-Z.  BT Intranet users find this a very useful service helping them to quickly find a site. Research of people in BT finds they navigate to what they need from the BT Homepage by using the search engine, deep linking from the many headings grouped functionally or use the BT A-Z. People who use the BT A-Z have a reasonable idea they know the site exists and what its name could be.  Cross-referencing of sites help...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 547 days, 12 hours, 45 minutes ago

When I posted about the latest results for BT ‘BT Intranet 2010 benchmark results‘ I promised to give examples the Intranet Benchmarking Forum highlighted as global best practice.  The first three examples are:About our content: IBF said all pages across BT’s intranet contain author and date informationHow involving everyone can make your intranet more valuable to your organisation: IBF said BT’s intranet supports our values to be open and straightforward in dealings with colleaguesHow you integrate your...

Source: markmorrell.wordpress.com Posted by markmorrell 551 days, 14 hours, 48 minutes ago

Intranet homepages are always contentious. In most organisations, every stakeholder would like a piece of this valuable real estate, and debates rage around the overall purpose and design.

Within the intranet industry, the homepage also inflames passionate debate. This is particularly true on the question of how long the intranet homepage should be.

In the earlier article Seven roles of the intranet homepage, a range of purposes were identified:

1. news
2. navigation
3. key tools
4. key information
5. community and culture
6. internal marketing
7. collaboration

Effective designs find a productive balance between these seven roles, without any one being excessively dominant.

Source: www.steptwo.com.au Posted by support 617 days, 13 hours, 55 minutes ago

More and more customers are going straight to specific pages on your website, rather than the homepage.

The decline of the homepage In 2003, 39 percent of the page views for a large research website were for the homepage. By 2009, it was down to 19 percent. In one month in 2008, of the 70,000 page views a technology site received, 22,000 were for the homepage. For the same month in 2010, of the 120,000 page views the site received, only 2,500 were for the homepage.

Source: www.gerrymcgovern.com Posted by bee 657 days, 2 hours, 11 minutes ago