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Great Intranets: from Cisco to IBM
Great intranets begin with people – in fact, great intranets are obsessed with the people they serve. Technology is just an enabler. The real key to a...
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The Social Business Study
If you need to make a business case to move to social media, or more enhanced social media (internally or externally) then spend 10 minutes to take...
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The Truly Social Intranet (Enterprise)
In a truly social enterprise, social requires more than just a Facebook page and Twitter account; you need to live and breathe social, inside and out. Anyone...
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The State of the Social Intranet Report
Social media represents a major, evolutionary leap for corporate intranets. Yet many intranets are still struggling to succeed given competition for budget dollars and internal resources. Your...
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Tuesday, 24 June 2014 9:23
Intranet research tools
Posted by Toby Ward
Intranet managers and consultants are the consummate knowledge workers. And most of us have come to learn intimately that knowledge is power. In particular, an intranet manager needs to explicitly know and understand: the requirements of...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:23
IBM’s new intranet represents change in intranet design
Posted by Toby Ward
Intranet design is pretty stale; and most intranets tend to look alike. Intranet design isn’t the most imaginative business, but occasionally an innovator steps forth…. Enter IBM. IBM undertook a ‘galactic’ intranet redesign a few years...
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Thursday, 05 June 2014 21:52
The destruction of home page news
Posted by Toby Ward
“I no longer support the idea of home page news and features,” says Shel Holtz, Principal, Holtz Communications + Technology. “My opinion has changed 180 degrees in the past two years. Activity streams is where we...
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Wednesday, 28 May 2014 20:53
Great Intranets Part III: DIRECTV
Posted by Toby Ward
It takes a highly engaging, collaborative intranet to be a great intranet. And a highly engaged workforce, led by a very active executive team that not only believes in and talks social, but walks social too....
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Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:22
Great social intranet sneak preview: DIRECTV
Posted by Toby Ward
It takes a highly engaging, collaborative intranet to be a great intranet. DIRECTV has an 80% participation rate on their social intranet that features active bloggers among their executive team, including the CEO, and CMO. In...
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Thursday, 01 May 2014 21:26
Great Intranets Part II: Cisco Systems
Posted by Toby Ward
Part II of a four part series on great intranets. The Cisco intranet, called Cisco Employee Connection (CEC), is now 20 years old, and supports a workforce of more than 100,000 (75,000 full-time employees plus contractors)....
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Thursday, 20 June 2013 6:18
Your bad intranet
Posted by Toby Ward
Your intranet sucks, but you’re not alone. The average intranet sucks, too. Well, I may sound a little harsh, but what would your reaction be if your child came home with a report card sporting a...
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Thursday, 04 October 2012 6:27
The State of the Social Intranet Study
Posted by Toby Ward
The state of the intranet is less than underwhelming, and nearly as poor off as the endangered Siberian Tiger; years of neglect, poor management, and underfunding, have left the weakest of corporate victims strewn on the...
