Recent Articles
7 Traits of a Winning Intranet
Truly great intranets are like snow leopards; very rare, mysterious, and beautiful. Winning intranets are years in the making; building and enhancing slowly over time, supported by active executive champions and funding.
Intranet information architecture: don’t reinvent the wheel
By Toby Ward The ultimate goal of the intranet manager, architect is to create an ‘intuitive’ IA with navigation paths that are intuitive or easily understood at a glance.
Modern Technology (and Trust) for Communicators
Effective, modern communications requires both trust and modern technology led by professional communicators.
“Our intranet is ugly” – Intranet design 101
Your intranet is dated, unfriendly, and ugly. It’s certainly not being used to its fullest extent because users simply don’t want to engage with it. And while employees claim that they would likely use it more if it weren’t so hideous, there is more to user experience in the workplace than just your modern web design.
Intranet design and planning
Planning is tantamount to success; design while not nearly as important, keeps them coming back. However, design without planing is the equivalent of putting the horse and the driver before the cart.
Intranet Gamification – Doing it right (Part 1)
Whether you realize it or not, your employees are playing games at work. Many of them are doing so on the intranet itself. And it’s driving value and productivity through the roof.
Intranet Gamification – Doing it right (Part 2)
In truth, the success of your gamification efforts has very little to do with your software. It’s actually not too difficult to assign points, levels, badges, and other game mechanics to a task. Instead, the successful outcome of the activity – specifically the influence that it has on participants – needs to be accurately planned, tested, measured, and executed.
The design process: How to redesign your intranet
Your intranet needs more than just a face-lift or new front-end look. Unfortunately, there are no one-size-fits-all intranets. Each one is unique because your organizational needs are unique; you have unique priorities, objectives, structures, processes, technologies. So when it comes to redesigning your intranet, this can be seen as a very daunting task – and it often is.
