Let’s face it, as much as internal comms likes to publish corporate news, most staff aren’t that interested in reading it. While part of the problem is the lack of relevant stories, one of the big issues is lack of time. In today’s busy working life, there simply isn’t much time to catch up on [...]
Categorised under: Intranets, Mobile
Also tagged: communication, Intranets, mobile, news
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 find each other, [...]
Categorised under: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets
Also tagged: Collaboration, communication, Intranets, news, social intranets
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 been converted into PDFs, [...]
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: communication, Intranets2011, news, newsletters
Wedge writes about the secret second reason why your intranet news goes unread. To quote: We know the number one reason people find your intranet superfluous to requirements; irrelevant information. The ‘news’ stories are often Company focussed (what ‘we’ need to tell ‘you’, the little people) rather than ‘people focussed’ (what ‘you’ need to know [...]
Categorised under: Intranets
Also tagged: communications, Intranets, news
Nancy Goebel has written a great post on measuring the effectiveness of intranet news. To quote: Below is a short list of the KPIs that I put together for them on the basis that their home page functions very much as a digital newspaper. These KPIs are intended to provide an indicative view of quality [...]
Categorised under: Intranets, Metrics & ROI
Also tagged: communications, Intranets, measures, metrics, news