Sep 3rd webinar – The blurring line between internal & external social
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…
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Web show: Live tour of a global biotech firm’s highly rated intranet
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 digital workplaces. June 4th episode: Amgen’s highly rated intranet On Tuesday,…
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Latest intranet trend: integrated task list on the homepage
In some ways the work of managing an intranet has been very much the same for the last decade. In other ways, it’s a rapidly evolving field with new trends and practices surfacing all the time. There’s no better way to tap into those trends than to spend two days hashing out intranet challenges with…
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What a beautiful intranet looks like
By Matt Wilson – Originally posted on Ragan.com. Judges for the Digital Workplace Group’s ‘My Beautiful Intranet’ competition said looks aren’t everything. A look at who won, and why. Like Plato, the judges of the Digital Workplace Group’s “My Beautiful Intranet” determined they had to define beauty before they could recognize it. “We had quite…
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What big businesses can learn from non-profit intranets
By Matt Wilson – Originally posted on Ragan.com. Two nonprofit organizations showcase how passion can help build great intranets with limited resources On an intranet, “Passion is a primary currency.” That’s according to Ephraim Freed, community manager at Digital Workplace Group, a guest host on the December episode of Digital Workplace Live, the monthly broadcast from…
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IBF Live report: Make your intranet a mirror for culture
By Matt Wilson – Originally posed on Ragan.com. Some companies just don’t need fancy social tools to make their intranets effective; what works is what employees need. “Intranets hold up a mirror to the culture they serve.” That’s the ideal, anyway, James Robertson, managing director at Step Two Designs, told the hosts of the Digital…
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Can public sector intranets regain lost momentum?
All intranet managers have found themselves on a roller coaster ride in recent years when it comes to justifying budget and selling plans for development – none more so than those in the public and third sectors. But is a new impetus growing for intranets in these sectors? Battening down the hatches Back in 2010…
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Tell us your experience of the digital workplace – take part in our survey
DWF has asked me to write a research paper on the current state of the user experience of the digital workplace. Whoa there Einstein! Too many words, not making any sense, all put together. OK fair enough, so there’s the “digital workplace”… Which is what exactly? OK good point, and a good question. Well, you…
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IBF members rated highly as flexible employers
DWG members past and present are well-represented in a list of the UK’s most flexible employers, published in the Guardian newspaper. In fact, of the top 10 organizations in the Working Families survey, four are current members of our benchmarking community while a fifth is a long-time former member. Flexible working is one of the…
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A peek inside the Shangri La of intranet conferences
As delegates head home from an insightful and highly productive IBF member meeting in Toronto, our Community Manager Ephraim Freed explains what makes this such a unique event in an intranet manager’s calendar. Let me begin by telling you about what I love about intranet conferences – connecting with other real-life intranet nerds. I love discussing the…
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Microsoft invites Paul Miller to talk about the digital future of work
Digital Workplace Forum CEO Paul Miller has been invited by Microsoft to give a keynote talk at its global headquarters about the digital future of work. Drawing on the key themes of his book, ‘The Digital Workplace – How Technology is Liberating Work‘, Paul will talk to an invited group of Microsoft staff at the…
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IBF at Interaction 2012
IBF and its associates will be out in force at the UK’s largest intranet conference, Interaction 2012, which takes place in London on 3 October. Among the speakers at this year’s event are Helen Day, Managing Director of the Digital Workplace Group (DWG’s parent business), IBF lead benchmarker Sam Marshall and Martin White, author of…
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