When organisations engage us to deliver communication and collaboration programmes, one of the key benefits they’re looking for is to enable their organisations to better Work Out Loud. That is, to purposefully make your work visible so that it can be committed to corporate memory, built on, shared and learned from. For individuals, Working Out Loud (or WOL for short) can help to build relationships, improve skills and raise profiles. For companies, it can mean more work is committed to cor...| Intranetizen
This week Facebook released a detailed study into the value their enterprise product, Workplace, delivers for those organisations who have rolled it out. Conducted by heavyweight research firm Forrester, it uses a combination of surveys and qualitative interviews with customers to quantify the difference Workplace can make in enterprise collaboration and communication. The headlines are impressive. Among the quantified benefits seen by customers are: 10% increase in revenue per customer 20% r...| Intranetizen
In 1993 I had a custom-built computer. And it was great. I could choose the 386 processor and 16MB RAM to meet my expectations and budget. And it suited me perfectly. As I watched photos load a line of pixels at a time and it blew my tiny little mind. But would I do it now? Hell no. I go to the Mac store and choose between the space grey and the rose gold because it does everything I need it to and more. Continue reading Should you buy or build your intranet? at Intranetizen.| Intranetizen
The Intranetizen team are often asked advice about intranet vendors that supply software and hardware solutions to run your intranet. Whilst we have 35 years of blue-chip intranet experience between us, in common with many intranet practitioners, we have relatively limited experience of the 200+ software systems that companies use. To help you, to help us and to help the vendors themselves, we’re running a series of posts of over this coming week showcasing 5 intranet companies. Continue re...| Intranetizen
The publication this week of the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer report provides fascinating insight for HR and Communications teams with implications for digital workplace professionals. This year, Trust at Work is the overarching theme, coinciding with the crowning of “My Employer” has the most trusted group globally. We dive behind the charts for the details. Trust cannot be assumed or banked, but can be built While there have been notable nudges in the right direction across the last yea...| Intranetizen
The government has a new policy paper about its vision for digital services in the NHS and It’s well worth reading The future of healthcare: our vision for digital, data and technology in health and care, published in October, is a positive and ambitious starting point for improving digital services across the NHS. Taking inspiration and learnings from improvements in standards made by the government digital service (GDS), the paper outlines the issues currently faced across hospitals, care...| Intranetizen
Last week, less than a year after Atlassian launched its workplace chat app Stride, came the surprise announcement they’re pulling the plug in an agreement with competitor Slack. This marks the latest salvo in the battle for the increasingly crowded enterprise chat market. What’s the deal? In a blog post Atlassian announced they’re exiting the communications market and entering into a “strategic partnership” with Slack. They’ll discontinue Stride and its predecessor HipChat by Feb...| Intranetizen
Since 2011, I’ve managed Step Two’s Intranet & Digital Workplace Awards, a global competition celebrating leading-edge intranets and digital workplaces. We’ve had a variety of winners from global brands to tiny companies and the roster has even included some of the Intranetizens. We’ve just entered our twelfth year and it’s genuinely exciting reviewing the entries for our 2018 Awards as they come in. Managing the Awards means I get to see a lot of different entries. Continue readin...| Intranetizen
With just over a month of preparation to go, the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is no doubt occupying considerable time for intranet and digital workplace specialists. If you’re a subscriber to Intranetizen (surely everyone is, right?), then you’ll see some communications from us in the very near future as we close out our preparations, but what should you be doing to be prepared for the new legislation. We’ve discussed GDPR before so today we’ll attempt to get practical a...| Intranetizen
The recent allegations about Cambridge Analytica using data obtained via Facebook to influence elections have made a serious dent in Facebook’s reputation. Its share price fell by 7%and MPs have summoned CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give evidence over the “catastrophic failure of process”. Inevitably, this [read more]| Intranetizen