The digital workplace offers a compelling vision of the future, but the right foundations must be in place.

Staff members’ digital identities underpin everything they do in today’s organisations. The ‘digital workplace’ is centred around staff profiles that show who staff are, what they are doing, their skills …

Staff must have a single coherent online identity for the digital workplace to succeed.

The term ‘social intranet’ has become popular in recent times, and describes an intranet with social media tools — blogs, wikis, microblogs, comment functionality and more — embedded within the …

Staff directories should provide the foundation for social features on the intranet.

Photographs can be a very valuable inclusion in a staff directory. They are helpful for putting faces to names, and nowadays in our on-line socially connected world are somewhat expected. …

Explores the benefits and risks related to including photos in the corporate staff directory.

Dorje McKinnon has posted about role titles in staff directories. To quote: Today one of the people I follow on Twitter asked the following question. @ChristySeason Asking all #intranet tweeps: …

Intranet-based staff directories are only truly useful when they contain comprehensive information about staff members. This means going beyond just a name, phone number and email address. Staff directories should …

There are three main sources of staff directory information: IT systems, HR/payroll, and staff themselves.