With the deployment of a new technology platform for the intranet comes the daunting task of migrating content from the old site. Hopefully there’s been a content cleanup, and a lot of the old and unused content has gone. This may still leave thousands or tens of thousands of pages to migrate. As outlined in [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Also tagged: authoring, content migration, Intranets
As budgets get tighter, organisations are looking for more efficient ways to train their staff. Intranets teams and authors are no exception. While many will jump to the online training option, this doesn’t necessarily work for all topics and all audiences. Training must cater as much as possible to different learning styles and author experience [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Also tagged: authoring, governance, Intranets, training
In an ideal world, every staff member would be able to access the intranet regardless of role, location or disability. In reality, many staff do not have access to the intranet and accessibility needs are rarely thought about, let alone acted on. However, worldwide legislative changes to create equality in web sites are having a [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets, Usability & user-centered design
Also tagged: accessibility, authoring, content, Intranets, usability
As one of the five key purposes of an intranet, content is too often left out of the equation when redesigning or improving the intranet. To be of any real use, intranet content must be good content, not just poorly written materials brought together in a single location. As stated in What every intranet team [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Also tagged: authoring, content, content quality, governance, Intranets, publishing
Quality content is key to the success of any intranet, making it both useful and usable. To achieve this, intranet teams must ensure intranet authors have the right tools, training and support to make this happen. As one of many author resources, a simple checklist for quality content should be provided on the intranet. This [...]
Categorised under: Content management, Intranets
Also tagged: authoring, content, governance, Intranets, publishing