by Toby Ward | Mar 29, 2022
Tags: content managment, digital workplace news, employee, employee news, internal communications, intranet news
Save time, save money – these are principal objectives of content management (and intranet news). In short, content management describes the process of easily creating, managing and publishing online content and intranet news with neither programming nor technical skills. Easy and effective content management is achieved through the deployment of a content management system (CMS) […]
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by Toby Ward | Oct 25, 2019
Tags: AI, chatbots, digital workplace strategy, email, intranet chatbot, Liberty Mutual intranet, Workgrid
To create a digital workplace strategy that improves the employee experience and supports overarching business goals, the first order of business (and by no means the easiest) is to identify the key stakeholders and assemble the right team for the initiative. If the thought of having to actually do that evokes images of herding cats, […]
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by Toby Ward | Jun 25, 2019
Tags: employee game, gaming, HR game, intranet, intranet game, Training game
The World’s largest employer is using an employee video game to attract and develop a new generation of managers. Spark City, Walmart’s new mobile management game, trains managers while they play. Modelled on popular mobile resource management games like Sims and Clash of Clans, Spark City challenges Walmart employees to run their departments like small businesses. […]
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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 | Jan 31, 2018
Tags: digital workplace, great intranets, intranet best practices, intranet sponsorship
The intranet is a cost center; and so too are employees. It’s sad, but true that executives view it as such. How many work for companies where the external website has a greater budget than the intranet? How many work for companies that spend more on customers than employees? Maybe not a bad thing, per […]
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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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