Leading intranets are now mobile

By: James Robertson Posted: September 6, 2013

The Platinum winner of the 2013 Intranet Innovation Awards. Screenshots courtesy of Barclays Bank. Employees demand mobile access when they are at work, and leading intranets are now delivering.  Going …

Intranets have been undergoing huge changes in recent years, but the challenge remains to deliver the greatest business benefits. That’s what makes the launch of our new book so important: …

Video: great SharePoint intranets in the modern age

By: James Robertson Posted: August 28, 2013

I’ve been doing a lot of presenting recently to SharePoint audiences about what great intranets look like, and how to deliver them. These talks have shared as many intranet screenshots …

How to present an intranet to new starters

By: James Robertson Posted: August 15, 2013

At the Intranet Leadership Forum two-day intensive in Canberra last week, we had several excellent sessions on making the intranet more useful for different staff groups. This included a case …

We like to mix it up at our conferences, to keep everyone awake and engaged. At Intranets2013, held in Sydney in May 2013, this included an intranet mythbuster session at …

Mobile instead of intranet? Urbis shares their experiences

By: James Robertson Posted: July 3, 2013

Late in 2012, we asked the question Should intranet teams stop and do mobile instead? The idea being that if teams are stuck waiting for approval to start an intranet …

The simplicity of the new University of Sydney staff intranet homepage is a testament to the amount of work involved behind the scenes in delivering a usable and useful site. …

Insight is more important than numbers

By: James Robertson Posted: May 28, 2013

All great intranet solutions, and indeed most great business solutions, rely on gathering information from and about the intended audiences, consumers, stakeholders or other groups of interest. Many believe that …

Shining a light on the most common intranet project

By: James Robertson Posted: May 23, 2013

The most common intranet projects are redesigns. These may be triggered for a variety of reasons: fixing up a old and dying site improving the usability and design of the …

Content migration: start as you plan to continue

By: James Robertson Posted: April 26, 2013

With the deployment of a new technology platform for the intranet comes the daunting task of migrating content from the old site. Hopefully there’s been a content cleanup, and a …