One important factor in your social intranet’s success is its usability: how easy it is to use and navigate, how quickly users find what they need, whether it’s intuitive — if users can figure out how things work without needing formal training or a thick how-to manual — and how much fun it is to use.

After all, if your intranet isn’t easy and fun to use, then how do you expect your staff to use it?

The question that’s always on an intranet manager’s mind is: How do I know how usable our intranet is? Traditional Ways of Assessing Usability

In this article are some of the traditional ways of measuring an intranet’s usability, and why they aren’t always very accurate, useful or feasible...

Source: www.vialect.com Posted by admin 91 days, 6 hours, 1 minute ago

Truth be told, a successful social intranet is remarkably similar to an intranet. Not unlike like the high-performance sports car to the family car, a high-performance social intranet resembles the corporate, family intranet at first glance… but only when it’s not performing to expectations.

A flourishing social intranet needs many of the requisites of a regular, run-of-the-mill intranet: well-defined governance and process(es), highly engaged people, and highly functional technology.

But the devil is in...

Source: www.intranetblog.com Posted by admin 97 days, 5 hours, 25 minutes ago

What is it that makes an intranet social and critical? Well this post, rather unsurprisingly called "10 things that make an intranet critical and social" outlines what in the authors opinion are the 10 elements that are critical to the success of an intranet.   New style social intranets focus more on people then content. Although content is still relevantContent is authored collaboratively by anyone and the emphasis is either knowledge sharing or documentation that is useful

Anyone can contribute and e...

Source: www.therunninglibrarian.co.uk Posted by admin 98 days, 5 hours, 24 minutes ago

The language we use defines our national identity and culture. In the UK most of the people living in Wales can speak English but under the 1993 Welsh Language Act all public-sector websites that contain information relevant to Wales have to be in English and Welsh. Certainly English is a very useful default language, and it is fairly easy to work with around 850 words. The other 1 million are just there to confuse everyone, including many native speakers.

In the USA if you are asked to slate a meeting you know that you will need to set a date and perhaps the attendees and agenda. In the UK if you asked me to slate a meeting I’d ask you which meeting you wanted me to criticize.

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Evidence continues to mount that social intranets have the potential to produce big results for organizations.

The ongoing McKinsey & Company study points to outcomes ranging from increased market share to reduced time to market, along with a host of other positive results. Studies from MIT and Aberdeen Group show productivity gains among employees using social intranets.

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Wondering how other organizations are faring with the social transformation of their corporate Intranets? The Go To” report for companies interested in knowing what other companies are doing has just been released by Prescient Digital Media.

The Social Intranet Study December 2011 examines social media use on corporate intranets and the magnitude, use, and popularity of social media by employees and executives. The study findings and analysis are based on the survey conducted between late May and early June 2011 by Toby Ward, Prescient Digital Media, in association with the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The results reveal rapid adoption of social media on the corporate intranet in the past year.

Source: www.thesocialworkplace.com Posted by admin 133 days, 5 hours, 43 minutes ago

In a world of Intranet turf battles, the easy answer is… well, uh… IT, HR, Corp Communication, Marketing, and so on, but in this social world isn't it really the end user should own its destiny?

I reference an article from 2001 "Our intranet doesn't need an owner. It belongs to all of us -- and to none of us.

Fortunately, that freewheeling approach is picking up surprising support from managers, consultants, and intranet users." Amazing that 11 years later, we are still trying to move in that direction.

Social Business would dictate that it isn't owned by any department if the platform is governed and setup properly.

The personalization and needs of all should be surfaced in a way that it serves the user. Join in the poll. I've created a poll to see who you think owns the Intranet. I'll replace your results with this best guess.

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“Over the past couple of years intranets have gone through a number of wonderful evolutions – everything from providing on-demand tools to creating more personalized experiences for their employees. And today with the rise of mobile devices and social media, many are looking to intranets for a way to take a more active role in the conversations going on in the company.

This can be accomplished by integrating social strategies into your existing intranet framework, and promoting social collaboration...

Source: www.interact-intranet.com Posted by admin 158 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes ago

For years, employees have been subjected to the "Godspeed" method of their employers introducing new communication technologies to the workplace. Here's how it works:

The IT department configures the new technology, subjecting it to rigorous testing to ensure that the bits get to where they're supposed to go and that the tool works they way it's supposed to without interfering with other systems. Once they're sure the technology works right, they issue the following instructions to the workforce: "Godspeed."

Source: www.ragan.com Posted by admin 160 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes ago

Social intranet is a hot topic. With the rise of social software, the next step to the enterprise social nirvana is the intranet. Hopefully, nobody is considering Facebook as a model anymore (like in “our new intranet will be like Facebook“), but there is still some confusion in what “social” stands for in the enterprise.

So first of all, let’s try to find the correct definition for “ social intranet“. Wikipedia is providing the following definition: “An intranet is a...

Source: www.forbes.com Posted by admin 170 days, 4 hours, 14 minutes ago