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5 simple ways to benchmark your intranet
In my last post ‘Measuring the value SharePoint 2010 can bring to your organisation’ I covered how you justify the benefits SP2010 may bring to your organisation. Now I want to widen this on to show...
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How to be better digital workplace professionals
Are you still buzzing from IBF 24 like me? I’m thinking about how to improve digital workplaces inspired by the great examples shown and discussed. I’m also thinking how digital workplace people are...
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Join me at the Social Workplace conference
Before I take a break for a week’s holiday from my blog, I wanted to post about the Social Workforce conference on 1 November in London, UK. It is a subject I very dear to my heart. I recently posted...
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How an engaged newbie can become a top performer
I have been answering the question “How do I engage employees and improve collaboration?” in my post Make a newbie welcome and more engaged which covered how day 1 can be the right start for a newbie...
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A top performer’s career development
How do I engage employees and improve collaboration? is a question I have been addressing in my posts Make a newbie welcome and more engaged,, Integrating and engaging a newbie and How an engaged...
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Is your culture right for collaboration tools to improve internal...
I believe many internal communications professionals are not appreciating the benefits that collaboration tools can bring. Instead they are seen as a threat to traditional channels used for...
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How discussion forums can help internal communications
This is the last post in a series answering the question “Can collaboration tools improve internal communications?” covering the right culture needed within an organisation, the redefining of internal...
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Leveraging the benefits from a social intranet
I have admired for sometime the thinking of Carolyn Douglas and the writing by Intranet Connections. They have helped intranet managers with tools and ideas to build successful social intranets Their...
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Who should own the Digital Workplace?
I read with interest Jane McConnell’s blog posts on governance in the digital workplace. Jane’s Digital Workplace Trends 2012 survey showed how a strategic decision-making body can increase the...
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How to be more productive in a digital workplace
OK, so you now have a digital workplace strategy showing the direction you need to move in; a governance framwework to show who is responsible for what with standards, etc, to give you a fantastic...
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Why not use a wiki to develop policies?
Ever since organisations have existed there has been a need to manage how their people behave by encouraging, sometimes even mandating, how work tasks need to be carried out and by whom. There can be...
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4 ways and 3 benefits using a wiki to develop policies
An organisation’s purpose involves how to manage how their people behave by encouraging, sometimes even mandating, how work tasks need to be carried out and by whom. In my last post I asked ‘Why not...
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Valuing information tip 1: Show who owns your content
In my post ‘Showing the value of your information’ I wanted to help you to show to people using your information how valuable it is. I asked ‘What is it you can do for people to realise your content...
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BT field-based workers use the digital workplace
I read Jane McConnell’s latest blog post ‘Floor-field workforce: the forgotten people?‘ with great interest. I agree with Jane that office workers are currently the main focus for digital workplace...
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Digital Workplace or digital working?
In my last two posts about the digital workplace I have covered an example of how field-based people use the digital workplace. I then covered how people’s perception of the digital workplace should...
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Strengthen employee engagement while working remotely
Happy New Year to you! I hope you had a relaxing break and have recharged your batteries for 2014. I was recently asked by Simply Communicate to follow up my 2014 predictions with one for internal...
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Turn company jargon into a knowledge gold mine
I have worked with many clients to improve their intranets. I find that each client has its own language and specific terms that are known by more general terms with intranet professionals. This can...
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Intranet Now has a bright future!
Congratulations Wedge and Brian for successfully giving birth to Intranet Now yesterday. It was a privilege to be there yesterday. I have never experienced such an atmosphere of goodwill and wish for...
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I wrote a book about governance: ‘Digital success or digital disaster?’
When an intranet loses its usefulness over time, and people become disengaged and end up working around it rather than through it, I often find that the strategy and governance have been neglected....
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How can new publishers comply with your intranet standards?
Implementing publishing standards that meet your organisation’s requirements helps create a consistently good experience for people accessing your intranet. They are critical to you implementing a...
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