Social intranets provide a valuable mix of functionality, beyond publishing content and news.

Social intranets have been popular for many years now, yet success with social intranets remains elusive. In a 2012 study by McKinsey, 72 per cent of respondents said their organisations’ …

Go beyond woolly objectives for social intranets, to solve real business problems.

As new technologies are gaining a presence within organisations, we’re seeing some strategic conversations shifting from the “intranet” to the “digital workplace”. This encompasses traditional content publishing, news, social, collaboration, …

At the Intranet Leadership Forum 2-day intensive in Sydney this week, we had several excellent sessions looking at enterprise social tools. This included case studies from a large bank and …

Over the last few years, social and collaboration become a big topic, with active interst in many organisations, as well as in the wider community. Amongst some writers and thinkers, …

Yesterday I gave a presentation in Denmark to a diverse group of organisations, all wrestling with SharePoint. While they’d all found SharePoint to be useful, the common story was the …

What does organisational culture mean, and how can intranets help?

There are a number of pitfalls to avoid when creating a new social intranet, to ensure adoption and business value.

Intranets have been going ‘social’ for some time now, first with lightweight aspects such as commenting on news articles, then with more embedded functionality such as blogs, wikis and document …