What do infant car seats have to do with social intranets?
Winner of My Beautiful Intranet 2014, Dorel Juvenile, makes top safety-rated car seats for children. Employees rally around a compelling mission, which the company’s social intranet helps to amplify. See a live tour of this intranet on October 7th. Letter from Dorel Juvenile customer: “We purchased the CabrioFix car seat prior to having our daughter…
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Why a social intranet needs to be both voluntary and mandatory
Far from being totally “opt-in” platforms, successful social intranets will integrate both voluntary and mandatory ways of working. Understanding the difference between these two types of behaviour will help intranet managers identify which metrics they should be using, as well as effective interventions to encourage usage. I would like to hear a joke. Tell me…
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Live tour: Winner of My Beautiful Intranet 2014 – Oct 7th
Webinar summary: See a live tour from the winner of My Beautiful Intranet 2014 on the October 7th episode of Digital Workplace Live. Also see a sneak preview of the new book “The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering digital workplaces fit for the future”. Show topics: Elizabeth Marsh, co-author of “The Digital Renaissance of Work:…
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How EY measures Yammer use: Webinar Sept 2nd
Webinar summary: Join us on Tuesday 2nd September, to hear how EY (Ernst & Young) uses metrics and governance to build and grow a successful Yammer implementation. Also hear the latest in developing community roadmaps from Rachel Happe of The Community Roundtable. Show topics: Live tour of EY’s Yammer implementation, and learn about how they…
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The last social intranet strategy you will ever need
Time and research have revealed a basic formula for successful social intranets. This article explains the four elements of a successful social intranet strategy, plus the fifth piece that ties them all together. Successful social intranets: Creating business value through strategic alignment and adoption planning. It’s okay, everyone can go home and rest easy; our…
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Measuring internal communications: Don’t get drunk on cheap intranet statistics
When measuring internal communications on the intranet, you can’t rely on basic web statistics to demonstrate value. Don’t settle for the number of comments per article and get side-swiped by an underwhelmed executive. “A page view is not an idea understood, a behaviour changed or a user engaged.” I wrote those words in a DWG…
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12 key concepts behind digital workplace success
Synopsis: How do you define and manage the digital workplace? What is the role of the intranet and the intranet team? This compendium includes 12 key concepts to answer those questions. Are you ready? In this, the last of my series of blog posts, I’m going to look back at what we’ve covered and also…
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New DWG research reveals 6 ways to encourage adoption of a social intranet
Synopsis: The industry has gone through the boom and bust hype cycle around social intranets. Efforts in this domain have finally matured and this article explains six proven strategies for driving social intranet adoption. The big day has finally arrived. In the run-up to this, you’ve shed tears, ripped the last remnants of hair from…
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Webinar: How AXA targets different audiences to drive social intranet adoption
Webinar summary: On Tuesday, July 1st see a live intranet tour from AXA-US, where the successful adoption strategy for enterprise social tools targets multiple types of internal audience. Also hear from Melcrum about a new report on digital, social, mobile communications. Show topics: 1) Live tour of AXA-US social intranet and learn about their strategy for…
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7 vital skills for digital workplace leaders
The vision and knowledge of senior leaders has been essential to successful digital workplace transformations at organizations such as Unilever, Barclays and IKEA. There are seven key things that every digital leader needs to know in order to avoid failure. Unilever, Barclays and IKEA are all transforming the digital workplace experience, not just for their…
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10 advantages of focusing enterprise mobility on frontline workers
Synopsis: Enterprise mobility is still at an early stage of maturity in most organizations, but interest is accelerating. There are ten core advantages of mobility, including portability and the ability to capture data in real time, which help unlock value for frontline workers. Download a free executive summary of DWG’s new research report – Success…
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We finally found the world’s best intranet
Synopsis: As with the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot, we always assumed the perfect intranet was a myth. But now we’ve found the world’s best intranet and have created annotated intranet screenshots explaining its many strengths. What does the best intranet in the world look like? And what makes it so great? From a thoughtfully…
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