The 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards were notable for not one but three remarkable mobile examples. In this interview, Sharon O’Dea explains what UK Parliament has…
Our books are now available on Amazon!.
Our two books, Designing intranets: creating sites that work and What every intranet team should know have been bought by organisations across the globe. It’s…
What the digital workplace needs for success.
This week we start discussing the digital workplace with a bang. (Watch this space for a big release in the next few days.) Observing the…
There must be only one staff profile in the digital workplace.
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…
Creative design thinking for a law firm intranet.
Over the years we’ve seen some superb law firm intranets, including the 2010 Intranet Innovation Award winning site, BenNet, at Bennett Jones. The nature of…
What do intranet teams need to know about the cloud?.
“The cloud” is ever-present these days, backed by a huge marketing push from multiple vendors, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple. Backed by immense data…
Spend 10-15% of SharePoint intranet projects on planning and design.
The classic texts of project management outline the importance of initial planning and design activities. While they only consist of 10-30% of the project, they…
How to create the right sites on your SharePoint intranet.
When you want to create a new site in your SharePoint intranet, this is the page you’re presented with. It’s pretty daunting for an inexperienced…
Don’t ask staff what features they want on a new SharePoint intranet.
“If we gave you a team site, would it be useful to you?” We’ve said before that the breadth of SharePoint is both its strength…
Intranets: global and local.
Not all staff needs are the same. Staff in different parts of the organisation, located in different areas and doing different jobs will have quite…