Technology selection decisions need to be guided by the focus of the intranet being delivered.
Finding staff for intranet research.
There are both formal and informal ways of finding staff for user research
Five intranet enablers.
Is your organisation positioned to deliver and sustain a great intranet?
Use the intranet to improve customer service.
Customer service is make-or-break for many organisations, and intranets can help.
Create information clusters, not pigeon holes.
When structuring a site, take a bottom-up approach to identify the right clusters
Ideation applications on the intranet.
Ideation applications tap into staff knowledge to create and share ideas.
Target your intranet improvements.
Intranet improvements must match business goals, meet staff needs and be practical.
Intranet launch videos.
Intranet launch videos can be inspirational, influencing or informative.
Align intranet strategy with business objectives.
Intranets add the greatest value when they go beyond just providing content, to directly supporting business objectives.
There is (largely) nothing to fear from enterprise social.
Experience from many organisations is that enterprise social tools generate few (if any) problems.