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An intranet is only as good as its content. You can have a beautiful design, amazing integrations and all the latest bells and whistles, but if your content has no value, is out of date, badly written or hard to find, then your intranet is not a success. Ultimately adoption will suffer.   Most intranets rely…

We held a fantastic DWG Technology and Research Institute Technology Lab, an online event hosted from Chicago. Here we brought together practitioners and providers to share insights into accelerating the digital workplace. We were pleased that Beezy, one of the most well-established intranet and digital workplace technology companies, were able to bring along a great…

Synopsis: SharePoint can can often seem a beast to be tamed for organizations, full of potential and promise. However, deploying an effective SharePoint implementation is proving to be hard for many and stories of expensive customizations and lack of adoption abound. Here are 12 critical success factors for SharePoint that aren’t about the technology, which…

Guest post by Stacy Wilson of Eloquor Consulting Stacy Wilson (@stacylwilson) is the Owner/President of Eloquor Consulting. Eloquor helps companies improve their internal communications, with a focus on intranet/portal projects and change management. Stacy consults and speaks extensively about SharePoint, internal communications and related topics. SharePoint out-of-the-box is – how can I put this politely…

DWG’s new research report on SharePoint 2013 outlines the main considerations for evaluating and implementing the latest of Microsoft’s intranet/portal offerings. DWG is strictly vendor neutral and has produced this report only in response to our members’ interest in the topic. Even so, report author Sam Marshall has given a very balanced view of SharePoint…

I’m here to deliver a message that you might find surprising, maybe even perplexing. Actually, it’s not my message, it’s a message from Sam Marshall, author of DWG’s new report on SharePoint 2013. And to be totally accurate, the message isn’t just from Sam: his report not only resulted from his hands-on research into SharePoint…

The launch of SharePoint 2013 at the start of this year marked the ten-year evolution of Microsoft’s intranet and collaboration platform. In this time it has grown from a fairly simple document-centric tool to cover a range of uses: as an intranet for published information, both corporate-wide and for business units as a portal to…

IBF Live – intranet and digital workplace insights in a monthly online broadcast Digital Workplace Live is the unique online show from IBF. Going out live on the first Tuesday of every month it offers live tours and expert insights on intranets, social and collaborative software, mobile apps and the broader digital workplace. Learn about subscribing…

IBF Live – the online broadcast featuring the best intranets from around the world. Digital Workplace Live is the unique online intranet show from IBF. Going out live on the first Tuesday of every month, it’s unmissable for anyone who works with intranets, portals and information workplaces. 2 April episode featuring: Safeway’s open source intranet and Group…

With SharePoint 2013 now being released, many intranet managers are starting to consider when they should upgrade or whether they should consider switching to the platform. To help keep DWG members informed of the latest developments around this landmark release and enable critical decision-making, the Digital Workplace Group is delighted to announce its new SharePoint…

As part of its 2013 Research Programme, IBF is conducting a survey on how organizations are considering implementing SharePoint 2013. Everybody who participates in the survey will get a summary of the results, and relative analysis. The release of SharePoint 2013 is a significant event in the intranet space. Many organizations considering a switch to SharePoint may…