The landscape of web marketing is always changing and shifting so it’s no surprise that Fathom SEO, a leader in online marketing, was eager to put a new intranet in place to assist with knowledge management. Fathom SEO, understood the importance of a dynamic, scalable intranet as their previous intranet was static and required users to know HTML to update information. The company also faced the challenge of on-boarding and training new employees in a timely fashion.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 475 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes ago

If you want to develop a killer app for you intranet, a good place to start is with your Employee Directory or your internal phonelist. A large number of intranet managers and intranet consultants that are part of the Worldwide Intranet Challenge group on LinkedIn agreed that the Employee Directory is one of the most popular applications on their intranets.

To make your Employee Directory a killer application, there are some practical steps you can implement...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 551 days, 14 hours, 50 minutes ago

The content that gets posted on your site can greatly affect users’ perceptions of the intranet and can also affect intranet buy-in. People consume information online differently than they do in print so it is important to keep the following points in mind when developing content for your intranet:

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 559 days, 21 hours, 33 minutes ago

Hey folks. Not all of you know me, but those that do often tag me as the company know-it-all. I like to call myself the Community Manager, but most of you know me as the Intranet. Like a lot of you, I have a few secrets to ensuring I am a successful and productive resource. While I appreciate whenever you throw money my way, in reality you can’t buy me happiness. So before you break open the corporate wallet, take note of my 3 triggers to good health and a happy intranet.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 580 days, 16 hours, 5 minutes ago

This week, I had the pleasure of attending The Communicating to the Public and Employees in the Age of Social Media conference hosted by Ragan Communicators and the BC Public Service Agency. While all the presentations were valuable, Monday’s session on SAS’s intranet struck a particular chord with me.

SAS’s intranet has been designed as a completely collaborative environment promoting a culture of trust and employee engagement. The site plays a key role in making SAS’s workplace such a success by focusing on some important employee engagement strategies.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 614 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes ago

Northwest Medical Center (NWMC) needs an intranet. They are currently using shared folders in Outlook and networked drives to shared documents and information. They want an intranet to unify the workplace and to log and access employee knowledge. After a search on Google for “intranet software” they get 293,000 results. It’s a crowded market, so how do you get started with an intranet evaluation?

A fundamental decision in determining the course of an intranet evaluation is: Do You Build or Do You Buy...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 643 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes ago

Tim Walters, Ph.D., is a senior analyst at Forrester Research. He recently posted an article Top 10 Tips for Pumping-Up Intranet Adoption. There have been a lot of blog posts and articles surrounding a successful intranet launch, including our own post “Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Intranet”.

Tim’s top 10 tips resonate and he has provided some great points to consider.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 678 days, 15 hours, 15 minutes ago

Eva Collins is an HR Administrator at West Coast Savings Credit Union. Last week Eva met with Heather Jenkins, the HR Manager, to discuss setting up a Career, Health and Wellness area on The Buzz Intranet, with the goal of fostering a productive and rewarding work environment for all WCSCU employees.

Eva is tasked with building this new sub-site on the intranet. Referring to her meeting notes, Eva begins by entering The Buzz admin site and clicks to create a new Department Site, giving it the name of ...

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 703 days, 22 hours, 15 minutes ago

Kelly Bristow is running late for work. She is the Intranet Manager at West Coast Savings Credit Union (WCSCU) and is the primary administrator for their intranet site, The Buzz. Kelly has a 9:30 meet with her content managers to go over project status updates and at 8:45 she’s tapping her foot waiting on her Starbucks vanilla latte. Caffeine first, then race to the office.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 725 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes ago

As Intranet Connections is entering our 2nd year on Twitter, we have had the privilege of reaching out to our customers via this popular social networking tool. One client that stands out in particular is Yasser Ahktar. Yasser has been a member of Twitter since June 2008 and has established himself as a social media evangelist.

In addition to his passion for social media, Yasser is an Intranet Manager for a large financial-market intelligence company. This company has over 10,000 employees and relies heavily on their intranet to facilitate the majority of internal communication.

Source: blogs.intranetconnections.com Posted by IntranetConnections 745 days, 22 hours, 47 minutes ago