Deep-dive into two of Nielsen Norman Group’s top ten intranets
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. This month’s session centres on the Nielsen Norman Group…
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Fortune 500 intranet managers bare their souls at DWG’s member meeting
Imagine you’re in a room full of intranet managers from some of the largest companies in the world and you’re going around the circle honestly discussing your toughest intranet challenges and recent successes. That’s how every DWG member meeting starts (what is an DWG member meeting?). What we call the “Stop Press” session allows all…
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Not long to go to enter My Beautiful Intranet 2012!
We’re getting close to the deadline for our “My Beautiful Intranet (Goes Social)” competition and things are starting to hot up! Since our look at some of the best features of the early entries, we’ve had further fascinating submissions (some of which are detailed below) and we’re expecting a lot more entries before deadline day….
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IBM’s own social intranet journey
Last week IBF partnered with IBM on a webcast about the latest trends in social intranets. Broadcast to around 250 of their customers, the session was entitled ‘Building a smarter workforce‘. The webcast featured Nancy Goebel and myself from IBF, and Larry Bowden, VP of Portals and Web Experience Software and Peter Ceplenski, Manager ,…
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Changing behaviour by doing
Professor Karen Pine (@karenpine) started her talk at the Meaning conference by telling a story about a Geography teacher (from the too long ago to get sued 1970s). “Get as far away from this classroom as you can,” says the teacher. So, Karen’s friend hitch-hikes to Ipswich. The teacher had arranged for all of the…
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The first speaker up on the Meaning conference, organized by Nixon-McInnes, was Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd, download presentation 2.4MB PDF). Stowe describes himself as a “speculative designer” and focuses on the impact of the social tools we think we know, and we think we love. Stowe was writing a book on the future of business but…
Blog Collaboration Breaking the chain – death to email
Being a recent arrival to the hilly city by the sea that is Brighton, England, IBF dispatched me off to the Meaning conference, organized by Nixon-McInnes. The conference was aiming to look at the future of business, and specifically how can business do and be better. I packed my conference iPad, dropped the kids at…
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Beauty and function: the entries so far in ‘My Beautiful Intranet (Goes Social)’
There’s now only one month to submit entries into our “My Beautiful Intranet (Goes Social)” contest – the closing date is 9 November – but we’re already seeing some great entries that demonstrate high aesthetics. Our competition is a sort of beauty pageant for intranets – for example one of the judges last year was…
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See Quintiles’ award-winning social intranet
IBF Live – the online broadcast featuring the best intranets from around the world Who has the best intranet in the healthcare industry? Some would say Quintiles—they just won the Ragan Communications 2012 Employee Communications Award for best social intranet. And they’re joining us on Digital Workplace Live to give us the scoop. And that’s not…
Blog Collaboration DWG24 Social intranets part 5: support and evolution
The term ‘social intranet’ is now firmly established in the intranet industry. It describes intranets which have moved from a more traditional model, based on centralized corporate communications, to those that are more focused on user-generated content, collaboration, two-way communication and a variety of ’social’ tools. Moving to a greater participatory model changes the fundamental…
Blog Collaboration Social intranets part 4: findability and improving processes
The term ‘social intranet’ is now firmly established in the intranet industry. It describes intranets which have moved from a more traditional model, based on centralized corporate communications, to those that are more focused on user-generated content, collaboration, two-way communication and a variety of ’social’ tools. Moving to a greater participatory model changes the fundamental…
Blog Collaboration Search & findability Social intranets part 3: risk and transparency
The term ‘social intranet’ is now firmly established in the intranet industry. It describes intranets which have moved from a more traditional model, based on centralized corporate communications, to those that are more focused on user-generated content, collaboration, two-way communication and a variety of ’social’ tools. Moving to a greater participatory model changes the fundamental…
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