Over the last few years the popularity of external social media has had a significant influence on intranet design and direction. There has been the rise of enterprise social networking, …

How much of your intranet home is red (irrelevant) vs green (directly helpful for staff)?

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 …

While intranet governance is a big topic to make sense of, a great start is to get three key documents in place.

Ticker tapes were developed in the late 1880s for transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines. Nowadays we see electronic ticker tapes on the sides of large buildings or TV …

Including a tickertape on the intranet homepage can be an effective way of communicating real-time updates.

I have often said that intranets hold up a mirror to the organisations they serve. Their purpose, content, structure and navigation must all reflect the unique contexts that they sit …

Some while back I posted an article which asked the question: how long should the intranet homepage be? I then discused what attractive intranets look like, providing examples of modern …

Intranet homepages are always contentious. In most organisations, every stakeholder would like a piece of this valuable real estate, and debates rage around the overall purpose and design. Within the …

It is widely assumed that intranet homepages need to be squeezed into a single screenful, but can longer pages be made to work?