Educating authors using a drop in centre

By: James Robertson Posted: June 30, 2011

The credibility of any intranet is dependent on content. Content that is created, published and maintained by many different people across the organisation. This frees up the intranet team to …

Communicating in a crisis

By: James Robertson Posted: June 30, 2011

In early 2011, the sky opened in Queensland with heavy rainfall in Brisbane and across South East Queensland. With Wivenhoe dam at capacity, flash flooding in Toowoomba and kind tides …

Presentation: Delivering a mobile enterprise

By: James Robertson Posted: May 25, 2011

Yesterday I was honoured to give a presentation at the monthly meeting of intranet managers organised by NetJMC. These were some of the world’s largest organisations, across a range of …

Make SharePoint intranets beautiful

By: James Robertson Posted: May 22, 2011

SharePoint is many things, but out of the box, beautiful isn’t one of them. The boxy design and shades of blue isn’t ugly per-se, but do little to inspire adoption …

Presentation: Bringing intranets and collaboration together

By: James Robertson Posted: May 20, 2011

Yesterday in Stockholm, I gave a presentation at a local IntraTeam community group meeting. A friendly bunch of people, with lots of good conversations (and great lunch!). These were the …

Internal social tools that support the business

By: James Robertson Posted: May 19, 2011

Yesterday I gave the keynote presentations at Intranätdagarna (Intranet Days) 2011 in Stockholm, Sweden. A friendly crowd, and some great presentations from the other speakers. The talk shared in this …

You can’t change corporate culture using social tools

By: James Robertson Posted: May 18, 2011

It’s been a busy couple of days for enterprise social tools. IBF24, just finished, had a big focus on the social tools that are being rolled out in organisations of …

Presentation: What makes an essential intranet?

By: James Robertson Posted: May 16, 2011

Well, Intranets2011 is over! It went very well by all accounts, and the energy in the room was remarkable. Many thanks to all the speakers and participants. As the first …

Ticker tape on the home page

By: James Robertson Posted: April 28, 2011

Ticker tapes were developed in the late 1880s for transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines. Nowadays we see electronic ticker tapes on the sides of large buildings or TV …

Listening for intranet success

By: James Robertson Posted: April 28, 2011

Earlier articles like Roles needed in an intranet team highlight the hard skills required to deliver successful intranets. And without doubt these will often differentiate success from failure. But nurturing …