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 | Dec 11, 2019
Tags: HIRE A CONSULTANT, intranet agency, INTRANET CONSULTANT, INTRANET CONSULTING, intranet firm
Like intranets, not all intranet consultants are created equal. Building or redesigning an intranet requires a lot of work that usually requires months, or often, years. The average intranet redesign requires 12 to 18 months. Perhaps more in larger organizations (or much less if you choose a hosted, out-of-the box solution). Additionally, if you decide […]
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by Toby Ward | Oct 4, 2019
Tags: communications technology, digital workplace, employee communications, internal communications, intranet, technology for communicators
Corporate communications, according to the latest crowd-sourced definition on Wikipedia, ”is a set of activities involved in managing and orchestrating all internal and external communications aimed at creating favorable point of view among stakeholders on which the company depends.” Wrong. If this is your definition of corporate communications, you are failing as a communicator. The notion that […]
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by Toby Ward | Apr 25, 2019
Tags: new social intranet, sharepoint, slack, social intranet, Teams
All-the-rage 10 years ago, collaboration on the social intranet is now part of the weekly work routine for most knowledge workers. The social intranet is at the hub of this collaboration and the underpinning technology continues to innovate and evolve. About 90% of intranets have some form of social component, be that instant messaging, discussion […]
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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 | Nov 20, 2017
Tags: bayer intranet, cigna intranet, digital workplace content, digital workplace lessons, digital workplace webinar, google digital workplace, Google intranet, INTRANET CONSULTANT, intranet design, intranet webinar
Content is still king. If there was one over-arching lesson from the 2017 Digital Workplace & Intranet Global Forum is that content, in all its forms, should be the apple of any digital workplace manager’s eye. It’s what employees want, and why they visit the intranet. No one goes to the digital workplace because they […]
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