Step Two Designs

SharePoint for intranet teams (a one day workshop)

SharePoint is being widely deployed throughout the globe as an intranet platform. With its power and flexibility, it offers a great opportunity for teams to deliver a next-generation intranet, but also confronts teams with considerable challenges and hurdles. While SharePoint is often chosen by IT, it’s left to the intranet team to decide how to use it to deliver a new and improved intranet.

Starting out in SharePoint can be a daunting task, and there are a lot of expectations on what will be delivered. In too many cases, organisations have floundered with SharePoint by not focusing on what’s important to staff, or putting in place the right governance and support. Don’t repeat these mistakes!

In this workshop you will gain the knowledge needed to build a great intranet in SharePoint. Be inspired by real-world case studies from a range of organisations and see screenshots from SharePoint intranets around the globe.

This is not a technology or IT workshop. Run by Step Two Designs, the global experts on intranets, this workshop targets what intranet and comms teams need to know. The workshop takes a constructive look at how SharePoint works and what parts to use. By providing a best practice methodology for designing your intranet, it will allow you to make sensible decisions on how scope and prioritse your project.

Most of all, this workshop will enable you to bridge the IT-business divide, and to work constructively and confidently with IT to deliver an intranet that works for all.

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Your questions answered

This workshop will answer many common questions, including:

• Where do I start with SharePoint?
• What do I need to know about SharePoint to deliver a great intranet?
• What functionality should I use, and what to turn off?
• What are the skills and resources needed to implement well?
• How much could it cost?
• How do I effectively evaluate implementation partners?
• What content do I migrate and how?
• What techniques will help to deliver a great intranet?

Workshop agenda

Topics covered during the day include:

• Understanding the SharePoint platform
• Where do the social tools fit in
• How to work effectively with IT
• Understanding realistic timeframes
• Examples of other real-world SharePoint intranets
• Scoping and prioritising what parts of SharePoint to use
• How good governance can save you a lot of heartache
• Delivering a great intranet with the right functionality
• What you need to know about the user experience of SharePoint
• Establishing foundations to avoid SharePoint failure
• Building blocks for SharePoint adoption
• Future possibilities for SharePoint intranets

Who should attend

The workshop targets the needs of those who own and run intranets:

• intranet teams
• internal communicators
• knowledge managers
• IT strategists
• business analysts
• project teams responsible for deploying a new intranet

Workshop presenter

Catherine Grenfell was a highly successful intranet manager at AMP before joining Step Two Designs. She now runs the Intranet Leadership Forum, where she helps teams throughout Australia connect up and deliver great intranets. More than anyone else in Australia, Catherine understands the challenges confronting intranet teams, and the practical approaches that can be taken to overcome them. Knowledgeable and energetic, Catherine is the ideal person to demystify SharePoint from a business and intranet perspective.

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