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 delivered, and what it took …

Our books are now available on Amazon!

By: James Robertson Posted: February 21, 2012

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 likely that these are the …

What the digital workplace needs for success

By: James Robertson Posted: February 20, 2012

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 discussions to date, it’s interesting …

There must be only one staff profile in the digital workplace

By: James Robertson Posted: February 16, 2012

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 …

Creative design thinking for a law firm intranet

By: James Robertson Posted: February 15, 2012

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 law firms does, on the …

What do intranet teams need to know about the cloud?

By: James Robertson Posted: January 31, 2012

“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 centres located in (often) rural …

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 lay the groundwork for everything …

How to create the right sites on your SharePoint intranet

By: James Robertson Posted: January 18, 2012

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 site administrator or content owner: …

“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 and weakness. Intranet and project …

Intranets: global and local

By: James Robertson Posted: December 21, 2011

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 distinct needs. In a globe-spanning …