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 to two-way communication and dialogue. The second is the rise of collaborative and social tools, which promise to transform how staff ...
Articles tagged: communication
Moving on from newsletters
In the old days, corporate news and information was communicated on paper, either as internal newsletters or a company newspaper. Created weekly, monthly or quarterly, these paper communications were delivered to staff desks or pigeonholes. In the modern era, communication is electronic, except perhaps for field or shop-floor staff. Newsletters have ...
Intranet strategy with collaboration products ensures fresh content
Jessica Scarpati writes about collaboration on the intranet, drawing on the opinions of a few in the industry. To quote: Building an intranet to house static content such as an employee directory and benefits forms can make a portal as dated as a corporate brochure. Making unified communications (UC) tools ...
How to get and use a successful intranet podcast
Mark Morrell has written a useful post on intranet podcasts. To quote: BT needed a cheap and easy way for people to explain by ’show and tell’ with other people how to do something. They say a picture paints a thousand words and demonstrating how to do something in ...
No collaboration without communications
Organisations are rushing to jump on board the web 2.0 bandwagon, which seem to offer a collection of affordable tools to collaborate and share knowledge. While many organisations are currently experimenting with social media tools, strong successes are still relatively rare. Consider the following scenario: an organisation introduces collaboration by piloting ...
Intranet mantra: connect, communicate, collaborate
Sara Redin has written about Nycomed's intranet strategy of connect, communicate, collaborate. To quote: If questions such as “Why do you need an intranet” stops you cold, maybe you should find a good mantra that simply describes the purpose of the tool so that any stakeholder can understand it. A ...
