by Toby Ward | Jan 10, 2019
Tags: information architecture, intranet content, intranet content managment, intranet information architecture
I can’t find anything! This is the number one ‘intranet’ complaint of most employees at most organizations, regardless of size, industry and geographic location. Notwithstanding the effectiveness of the search engine which, more often than not, is rated as being somewhere between ‘awful’ and ‘piss-poor,’ information architecture is often the top priority of most intranet […]
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by Toby Ward | Sep 27, 2018
Tags: Office 365, sharepoint, sharepoint 2019, SharePoint consultant, sharepoint intranet
Microsoft rules the enterprise technology market. Email, operating systems, office productivity tools (think Word and Office), and now the intranet, with Microsoft SharePoint. They don’t just want your business, they want to run your business, and own the digital workplace. Now some 17-years-old, SharePoint continues to rapidly grow and infiltrate the enterprise: 200,000+ organizations use […]
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by Toby Ward | Sep 25, 2018
Tags: #intranet #contentmanagement #CMS #intranetdesign #intranetwebinar
Your intranet is hungry for good content; but it’s awash in bad, stale content. Feeding the intranet ‘monster’ once was a primary concern for corporate communications, but now it’s culling the dead and fallen. Old documents, unused team sites, poorly written titles, no meta tags – all symptoms of a sick intranet suffering from acute, […]
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by Toby Ward | May 21, 2018
Tags: Office 365, sharepoint, sharepoint 2019, sharepoint conference
“At the center of digital transformation, isn’t technology, it’s people,” says Seth Patton, GM, for Microsoft Office 365 Product Marketing, opening up this year’s SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas. “It’s about fostering a culture of work and embracing workplace trends.” Good to know that Microsoft gets it; the intranet is more about people and process […]
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by Toby Ward | Mar 12, 2018
Tags: digital workplace, intranet adoption, intranet engagement, intranet planning, intranet search
Winning intranets tend to vary in look and feel, with different user experiences, applications, technology, and approaches to content and governance. And they should – every organization and culture is unique, and the intranet and digital workplace should reflect that unique culture. There is no magic bullet or template for creating a winning intranet. A […]
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by Toby Ward | Jan 10, 2018
Tags: great digital workplace, great intranets, intranet governance, winning intranets, winning traits
A winning intranet is like a snow leopard; 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. Emphasis on executive support — money follows the chiefs, and it flows down from the executive suite. And without funding, and the executive sponsorship to ensure it, […]
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