Posts by Alex Manchester
Social intranets provide a valuable mix of functionality, beyond publishing content and news.
Go beyond woolly objectives for social intranets, to solve real business problems.
How much of your intranet home is red (irrelevant) vs green (directly helpful for staff)?
Avoid structuring the intranet to match today’s business units, and think twice about ‘my’.
There are a number of pitfalls to avoid when creating a new social intranet, to ensure adoption and business value.
There are many enterprise social tools, which vary greatly in their capabilities, and it is important to choose carefully.
Visual design is important for intranets, and great work by design agencies is key to this.
When should online card sorting be used, and how to make the most of it as a research technique?
Comprehensive training and support is a critical component of delivering, and sustaining, a great intranet.
There are a variety of smart ways to help staff find what they need, when searching and browsing.