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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by Toby Ward | Aug 9, 2017
Tags: content curation, Google intranet, intranet content curation, knowledge management
On the indexed Internet, there are more than 4.5 billion pages. Finding the most relevant content can be akin to finding a needle in a hay galaxy. “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure,” says writer and futurist Clay Shirky. Google obviously helps find and filter out irrelevant content, but the ubiquitous search engine doesn’t […]
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by Toby Ward | Feb 15, 2017
Tags: digital workplace, IBM, intranet news, layoffs, remote workers
According to various reports, IBM is eliminating remote workers in marketing, engineering, and other roles. The Register details some of IBM’s plans in Big blues: IBM’s remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers. In the US, those that don’t report to one of six main offices, will be eliminated, according to The Register. The same edict will […]
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