Step Two Designs

Intranet governance can be a daunting subject, so daunting that it is rarely addressed comprehensively, and often even the core aspects shied away from. This can leave intranets and their teams dangerously adrift. To be sure, complete governance is far from trivial, embracing design, architecture, visual aesthetics, function, roles, responsibilities, content types, training, resources, stakeholder [...]

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Every intranet includes some of the organisation’s policies and procedures. This article outlines the common ways to collate and share this information. We will cover: different navigation methods examples of layout for content pages best practices for improving the experience for staff Policies and procedures are important information, and may apply over the whole organisation, [...]

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Many intranets teams are tasked with ‘creating intranet governance’ without further guidance on what that means for the organisation or a clear understanding of what it should contain. Governance is about having a framework in place that enables the decision-making and planning processes for the intranet. It provides support for the intranet team and assists [...]

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Mark Morrell writes about five key intranet standards. To quote: Some time ago I asked if your intranet standards work. I thought it would be useful to cover what I believe are the 5 ’must have’ standards you should apply to any intranet content. This could range from formal, authoritative, facts published using a content [...]

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