The Intranet Drives Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is a crucial factor in the success of any digital workplace – and the intranet is the secret weapon. Engaged employees are more productive, motivated, and committed to their work, resulting in higher job satisfaction, lower turnover rates, and more...
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March Intranet Insight: People + Intranet

Intranet Insight (Mar. 2023): People & The Intranet: The Most Important Ingredient  People and The Intranet “People are far and away the most important thing. You can have the best content in the world, but if no one uses it, it’s not worth the server it’s sitting...
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Intranet Success Depends on People

True intranet success is rare and often fleeting. It takes a lot of work, with an emphasis on people, and process. To reach the rarefied air of intranet success, your site must be delivering on all three tiers of the Nexus model. Success is often pre-determined by the...
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People and the Intranet

True intranet success requires a lot of work – usually measured in years. The dedication, rigor and resources required to build and maintain a successful intranet or a unified digital workplace are significant. And while a successful intranet does not necessarily...
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SharePoint for Communicators: Content Management & Empowering Content Creation

For corporate and employee communications teams: a webinar to learn how to create, publish, and manage great content across multiple departments and publishers using SharePoint. A how-to 60-minute webinar hosted by Toby Ward, founder of Prescient Digital Media and the...
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Digital Workplace Design

Too many think the digital workplace is the next generation of intranet. However, we've all had a digital workplace for years. The digital workplace is not a website or the intranet. The digital workplace is not a destination or an app or platform. The digital...
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Dissecting Intranet Design

A look at some of the very best intranet designs on the planet, including a peek at some of the keynote presentations from the last Digital Workplace & Intranet Global Forum conference. A behind-the-scenes look at the best intranets and digital workplaces from...
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Digital Workplace or Intranet?

Is the digital workplace something new, or is it just packaging? The digital workplace is not an intranet on steroids, or a replacement of an intranet; or the next great enterprise portal, nor is it SharePoint. The digital workplace describes a workplace of digitally...
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Will Covid Save The Intranet?

Enter the intranet, the digital antidote to Covid-driven work isolation: the intranet.
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Walmart Trains Managers with Employee Video 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...

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SharePoint for Communicators & Content Management

Microsoft SharePoint has conquered the enterprise intranet. Although the conquest is never as bloody nor expensive as more invasive wars, such as those by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, intranet users are not always thrilled by the structure and usability of...

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The New Social Intranet 2019

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...

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Intranet Podcasting for Internal Communications

Email is easy; newsletters and intranet home page news are par-for-the-course. But communications that that drives employee engagement are truly great. This is the impetus for  CEOs, communications and intranet managers that are increasingly employing intranet...

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Intranet software revolution

The digital workplace is revolutionizing at high-speed; leading the charge is the intranet. The intranet is the gateway to employee tools, and all internal applications. From custom-built solutions to portals, and complete digital workplace solutions, intranet...

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Intranet Design: Less is More

"I only use the intranet when I have a purpose. I go on to find something as quick as possible and then I’m off," said an employee during an intranet focus group earlier today. Employee focus groups that test intranet design concepts and approaches are very revealing....

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The intranet redesign process

The best intranets don't come out of a box. Great intranets require a lot of work, and many months, if not years of planning and preparation. Case in point: the most recent Intranet Design Annual (NNG) featured 10 winning intranets; the average cycle for an intranet...

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