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• How long could you survive without the intranet?

  
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  We’ve got great stories coming out at the two-day Intranet Leadership Forum intensive in Sydney. One that jumped out to me was the following: The intranet team at a major Australian bank talked about their data gathering efforts over the last year. The goal has been to build a strong business case, in order to ...
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• The softer side of intranets

  
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  For the last seven years we’ve been writing about intranets, and our focus has relentlessly been on how to make the intranet more valuable for staff and the organisation. Our over-arching statement has always been this: Staff will use the intranet if it’s useful. The challenge is to uncover and understand ...
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• Photos in staff directories

  
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  Photographs can be a very valuable inclusion in a staff directory. They are helpful for putting faces to names, and nowadays in our on-line socially connected world are somewhat expected. However, talk to any intranet team and you will hear about how difficult it can be in practice to achieve this. The reality is ...
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• Intranet Innovations 2009: insights into this year’s winners

  
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  The 2009 Intranet Innovation Award winners were unveiled in Sydney on 5 November 2009. There’s a wealth of great screenshots, information, tips and advice in the 2009 Awards report , which you can find on the Step Two Designs website. This article summarises the winners and hits on some of the key themes identified ...
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• Gold winner: Sungard

  
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  Sungards Skills Matrix dispenses with a wall-sized spreadsheet and allows managers and other staff to find the right employee for a task. Image provided courtesy of Sungard Post 5 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year’s Intranet Innovation Award winners. SunGard is a major ...
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• Roll out the red carpet for your intranet

  
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  Rachel Lai has written an article on intranet launches . To quote: When you enter the latest top-rated restaurant in town, the ambience makes you feel: if the restaurant design is warm and intimate, you feel comfortable and relaxed; if the design is hip and leading edge, you feel upbeat and cool. Think of your ...
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• Future principle: ubiquitous access

  
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  In 2015, staff will have ubiquitous access to information and functionality, delivered at the point of need , regardless of where they may be. This means going beyond the “intranet as an internal website”, a concept that has been holding back intranet teams for many years. A few of the comments on my ...
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• The immense value of expertise location will help drive enterprise social media

  
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  Ross Dawson has written about the value of expertise location . To quote: I have been interested in the field of expertise location for over a decade, from back when knowledge managers were building ‘corporate yellow pages’ and other tools to find the best expertise in the organization. Unless a large ...
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• Catherine Grenfell on successful intranet managers

  
  Globally local - locally global — Authority: 114
  I talked to Catherine Grenfell of Step Two Designs a while ago about an article she published on the Step Two Designs web site: What do successful intranet managers have in common? Its clear that Catherine has a lot of experience working with intranet managers and her insights are both useful and inspiring. ...
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• I’m going to start talking about the future, and I need your help

  
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  Our unwavering efforts over the last 7+ years have been focused on helping teams deliver better intranets. This has all been about “today”, and what we can do to make intranets work better. This has involved uncovering successes (and failures) from across the globe, and distilling these into best practices and ...
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• A gathering of award winners in San Jose

  
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  This morning we held an awards ceremony at KMWorld in San Jose for some of the US-based winners of the Intranet Innovation Awards . In front of the assembled masses, I was delighted to hand over the lovely glass trophies in person to: AEP IDEO Prophet Sabre We’re off to a nice dinner tonight, and I’m ...
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• Gold winner: Prophet (USA)

  
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  Prophets in-house designed online performance evaluations system reduced the appraisal process timeframe from two months to one week. Screenshot courtesy of Prophet. Post 5 of 10 in a series of blog posts giving more insight into this year’s Intranet Innovation Award winners. Prophet is a US-based global ...
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• Intranets must be task-centric

  
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  Gerry McGovern argues that intranets must be task-centric . To quote: Let’s say you have an organization of 1,000 people, and 50 of them work in Human Resources (HR). An organization-centric intranet will work great for those 50 people, but it will not work very well for the 950 people who need to book training, ...
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• Google May Take Over More Design Jobs

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 701
  Web designers beware. Google is expanding its templates for Google Sites, which is part of Google Apps, and the company is really pushing Google Apps these days . What this means is that as more businesses adopt Google Apps and find a wider variety of site templates to choose from, the less they may need the services ...
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• Google Sites Offers Templates; Claims It’s Easier Than Sharepoint

  
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• The collaborative intranet: involving users in intranet designs

  
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  Patrick C. Walsh writes about directly involving staff in redesigning the intranet . To quote: So let’s imagine that we’re in the process of designing or re-designing an intranet. We’ve done all our user research and now its that scary time when you have to somehow turn the research into design ideas. You ...
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• How to create clear web navigation menus

  
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  Gerry McGovern has written about the value of clear navigation menus . To quote: Good web navigation is unsubtle. It is clear, precise, familiar, consistent, boring, unemotional. Good navigation is ugly and functional. You’ve just designed a new plane. It’s sleek and ergonomic, fuel efficient yet roomy. ...
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• This week in links - week 46, 2009

  
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  " Highlights from the Global Intranet Trends for 2010 " by Jane McConnell: Organizations are positioning the intranet as the entry point into the organization’s ensemble of information, applications, collaboration and communication tools . Approximately one third of the organizations have a high-level ...
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• Intranet Portal Awards 2009 (Brazil) announced

  
  Globally local - locally global — Authority: 114
  I participated for the first time in the Brazilian Intranet Portal Award 2009 event this week - virtually! If you dont speak Portuguese (as I dont) you can use a translator tool to get an idea about what went on for the two days of the conference. Try this link. There were 12 awards announced and approximately 200 ...
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• 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards announced and published

  
  Globally local - locally global — Authority: 114
  The 2009 Intranet Innovation Awards winners have been announced and you can now purchase the report with lots of details and screen captures. (US$ 189. More information on the Step Two Designs web site.) Ive read it and find it to be one of the most useful collection of intranet case studies Ive seen. James ...
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