Digital workplace blog
Reputation and trustworthy communications
The pharma industry has a reputation problem. HCPs and patients can be brand loyal to the drugs they rely on and believe in, but suspicious of
the companies behind the drugs.
The 5 minute business case for a mobile website and intranet
You can define the need to optimise your website or intranet for mobile users in literally five minutes, based on a couple of readily available specific facts about your current site.
How Microsoft is integrating Yammer into SharePoint 2013
===update 27th May 2016=== With the demise of Yammer Conversations what looked like quite a cool initiative to bring Yammer comments into Office Docs and vice versa you might be forgiven for thinking that there’s not been much progress in integrating Yammer into the wider Office 365 suite. I just returned from
The Microsoft digital workplace new tools to get to grips with
The intranet is no longer one thing. While the intranet may be the foundation of the digital workplace, it is made up of several platforms and tools. If SharePoint has always been your focus, prepare for the new wave of Microsoft tools to enhance your ways of working.
What do you want people to do on your social intranet?
It’s not about the social features, it’s about getting stuff done. Don’t tell people about ‘status updates’ and ‘activity walls’, rather, focus on working out loud and helping colleagues.
Align your internal and external communications
Marketing communications may seem wholly separate to internal communications, and in turn the marketing team may feel worlds apart from the internal communications team. Yet marketing campaigns are stronger and more authentic when employees are involved. Dont be that company where the staff know less about your news than industry experts.
Intranet best practice: Five dimensions of a great intranet
Not the tech, nor the features. A great intranet doesnt just develop after launch; its planned in advance. Organisations with successful intranets tend to understand the key principles of delivering a great intranet experience. Follow the principles whether youre launching, replacing, or improving your intranet.
A framework for intranet governance
A successful intranet cannot be simply installed and launched; the whole organisation needs to be engaged. Here’s how to share the responsibility for the intranet beyond the core intranet team.
SharePoint migration paths
Most people are eager to update to the latest version of their favourite app, but its just not possible to press an update button with SharePoint. The wise intranet manager will have a certain amount of trepidation as they embark along the SharePoint migration path.
You might be most concerned with making sure site collections (Team Sites, My Sites) get upgraded to SharePoint 2013 smoothly; find out what to watch out for as you hit the metaphorical update button.
Writing quality content for the intranet – guidelines for employees
This article below was written by our guest author, Wedge, and is reproduced from his blog with his permission. Perhaps not everyone has the right / permission to publish articles on your intranet. It’s likely that a percentage of your workforce are able to contribute directly, but a larger percentage can
3 Trends and predictions of the future – how will our connected lives change?
Trying to predict the future is tricky at the best of times, but in this article I’ll try to use current trends to illustrate three aspects of the future web that I think are going to be with us sooner than most people think.
The ‘I need to…’ menu: simple and invaluable
Inspired by the simplity of implementing a menu of options that completes the sentence ‘I need to…’, we worked in partnership with our client to introduce this simple and intuitive tool to their intranet architecture as part of their wider internal communications strategy.