Talking and Listening to Your Employees Is Critical - Steve Cohen
It sounds obvious, even elementary, but two-way communication is not happening too much in many of today’s businesses and organizations. In a recent USA Today survey, only about 31 percent of employees...
View ArticleDesigning the digital workplace of the future - @oscarberg
Companies will only be able to respond to the challenges they are facing in an increasingly global, competitive, rapidly changing and interconnected business environment if they empower their knowledge...
View ArticleAre you capturing employee stories and turning them into content? - Listen to...
I was interviewing the CEO of a Silicon Valley company as part of an internal communications audit. “How does knowledge move most effectively through your organization?” I asked. He pondered the...
View ArticleNow Playing on the Intranet: Video for Internal Communications
Internal communications professionals are always looking for ways to get time-strapped employees to pay attention to company news. Today, enterprise social media tools have turned internal...
View ArticleEnable commenting on intranet news - James Robertson
Two major trends are affecting how intranets are used to communicate to, and connect with, staff. The first is the move by internal communications teams away from just top-down corporate communications...
View ArticleYou shape your intranet. Thereafter, it shapes you. - Sharon O'Dea
In his book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Marshall McLuhan said “we shape our tools. Thereafter, they shape us”. McLuhan’s focus was language; he argued that language doesn’t describe...
View ArticleWhat does your Intranet do for you? - digitalworkplace
We always refer to users being at the center of Intranets and Intranet managers prime focus being to answer user and business needs. Two recent quotes re-emphasize this and provide great analogies...
View ArticleKommunikation ist wertvoll
Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, jemals Buntstifte für mich gekauft zu haben. Vermutlich habe ich das auch nie, weil meine Eltern das damals übernommen haben. Aber diesmal hatte ich einen guten Grund, mir...
View ArticleIntranet news needs good headlines too - Mich-communication
There are a gazillion articles out there about how to write great online headlines but they tend to fixate on company internets and blogging and how to attract readers through SEO. What about the...
View ArticleIntranet Executive Blogs - Intranetizen
Executive blogs have the potential to be a genuinely powerful communication vehicle, but in our experience from countless intranets, they seem to frequently miss the mark. Here are a few observations...
View Article8 ways to get employees to comment on the CEO's blog
Whenever I talk about leaders' blogs on intranets, the same issue inevitably arises. It goes like this: "My CEO/president/senior executive is blogging on the intranet, but employees won't leave any...
View ArticleSocial media behind the firewall powers Intranet 2.0
Most companies think publicity when they think social media. Usually their thoughts go straight to Facebook or Twitter, and the focus is on external audiences. Which begs the question, why ignore those...
View ArticleHumanizing companies: when technology facilitates recognition and praise
M. has worked for the same company for circa 4 decades! A lifetime devoted to one organization, witnessing its ups and downs, watching its history unfold as turbulently as that of her country. For her...
View ArticleWill 2012 be the end of email? - Sharon O'Dea
2012 begins with a slew of predictions that this year will see the back of email. Back in November, multibillionaire foetus Mark Zuckerberg declared “email is dead”. It must be true, I read it on...
View ArticleAre Your Users Holding You Back? | Tech Changes Consulting
OK, we’ve all thought it from time to time. It would be so much easier to launch a new tech project if our users weren’t so far behind us. They moan about change, they don’t listen when they’re being...
View ArticleIntranet Management: Shaping the Internal Customer Experience - Martin White...
Good intranet managers are able to slice and dice their customers in many ways. Thanks to all the work they have done with personas, they may even have pictures of them up on the wall of their office,...
View ArticleIf employees spend more time on the intranet, does this mean it is more...
Is it a good thing if your employees spend more time on their intranet? Does this mean it's actually helping the business? Research based on the feedback of over 27,000 intranet end users can help shed...
View ArticleA cure for “Social Media” allergy. « Ellen's Digital Workplace
It still happens…managers who do not want “Social Media” in their organization, since they think this means “wasting valuable working time”. Sometimes it is Communications who resist, because they...
View ArticleHow G4S’ intelligent intranet improved their global communication strategy «...
How G4S’ intelligent intranet improved their global communication strategy Find out in this short video how leading global security solutions group G4S improved collaboration, communication and the...
View Article6 Mistakes to avoid when installing intranet kiosks | Ellen's Digital Workplace
It was not my plan to write about this. With more and more computers on the production work floor, and more home and mobile access for intranets, I honestly thought that intranet kiosks were a thing of...
View Article10 free guides to help you create intranet content | Mark Morrell Intranet...
It is not often that I recommend on my blog information to read that I believe is helpful and easy to read. Today is an exception (not just because I played a very small part in its creation)! :)...
View ArticleRest in peace, dear colleague. | Ellen's Digital Workplace
Recently I visited an intranet team who showed me how they use their internal social network to announce the passing away of a colleague, and to give everyone in the organization the opportunity to...
View ArticleWhat to do after the launch of your intranet – part 1
Designing and launching a new, or revamped, intranet may be a massive project, but the success of your efforts isn’t the launch – the journey towards a useful intranet has only just begun. Some ideas...
View ArticleIt’s time for a change | Mark Morrell Intranet Pioneer
I have been fortunate to work with and view many sites, intranets, digital workplaces, mobile and collaborative spaces since 1996. Many technology features and fads aimed at helping people have a good...
View ArticleHelp people choose what to read
Extra minutes spent crafting great headlines and summaries can dramatically increase the readership of your content.
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