Highlights from IBF’s most recent member meeting at Verizon
When talking with intranet practitioners at various companies, I am often asked, “What actually happens at IBF Member Meetings?” My short answer is that these meetings are all about communication, collaboration and intranet-nerd nirvana. Limited to practitioners only and bound by DWG’s membership terms of confidentiality, attendees engage in full disclosure live intranet tours and…
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IBF24 from The Netherlands: Focus on new ways of working
The portion of IBF24 hosted from The Netherlands was short and sweet, with two excellent intranet tours and two interviews with authors. Both interviews focused on the new ways of working needed to succeed in this modern, digital age of knowledge workers. The first intranet tour from The Netherlands was led by Chloe Chavardes and…
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Getting your message across in multiple languages
For organisations trying to deliver multi-language intranets there are a unique set of issues and considerations that must be addressed. These range from governance and legal considerations; potential design and accessibility issues; the implications for search; through to the cost and logistics of supporting language variations. Yet for global organisations, delivering content in multiple languages…
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Can an intranet be beautiful?
When you hear a description of a good company intranet, what kinds of words do you expect to hear? Streamlined? Navigable? Organized? How about beautiful? “We live in a world where function is seen to be as very important, but beauty isn’t,” Paul Miller, CEO and founder of the Digital Workplace Group, said in the…
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