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Create information clusters, not pigeon holes

By: Steve Byrne Posted: June 27, 2014

When structuring a site, take a bottom-up approach to identify the right clusters

Designing intranet role pages

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: November 27, 2013

Intranets serve many different audiences, and role-specific pages can help to meet these diverse needs.

Signposting within documents

By: Steve Byrne Posted: November 27, 2013

Finding the right document is only half the task: is the document structured in a useful way?

Beyond the standard content audit

By: James Robertson Posted: April 26, 2013

Content is at the heart of all intranets. Pages, documents, and files populate the architecture with varying degrees of elegance and are managed under different authoring and publishing regimes. Over …

Beyond the standard content audit

By: Steve Byrne Posted: April 26, 2013

Using Excel in more powerful ways can bring further insights beyond a typical content audit

Accessibility for intranets

By: James Robertson Posted: December 13, 2012

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 …

Use your CMS to improve intranet content

By: James Robertson Posted: October 31, 2012

We have written a number of articles on how to improve intranet content including Improving intranet content and Helping intranet authors write quality content. Most of these activities focus on …

Improving intranet content

By: James Robertson Posted: August 22, 2012

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 …

A checklist for quality content

By: James Robertson Posted: August 22, 2012

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 …

Designing an intranet’s policy section

By: Catherine Grenfell Posted: June 25, 2012

Policies and procedures are important information, and they need to be easily found and used on the intranet.