If your company is serious about improving employee engagement, then the intranet is the perfect place to start, Tami Matthews, Content Strategist at ElevatePoint, believes. In this interview, Matthews tells MARGINALIA how and why a modern intranet can have a positive impact on the employee experience. She also shares her views on the latest intranet trends and the future of work.
Is it time for a seismic shift for intranets? Product Director at Content and Code, David Bowman, believes so. Employees are frustrated and hampered by their company’s intranet. This must end. In this interview, Bowman tells MARGINALIA how and why persona-based research is a key approach to understanding people’s digital interactions with content and colleagues. He also describes the main characteristics of the intranet of the future, including AI, bots, and personalised content delivery.
How does the evolution of Office 365 impact the employee experience? What should organisations do to provide staff with a productive, connected digital workplace experience? MARGINALIA speaks with Salvo Profita, Product Manager of the SharePoint intranet in-a-box, EasySharePoint, who describes a “philosophical shift in the way people work”.
A mature intranet takes time; it should always evolve, must never become stagnant. To continue to be useful and used, the intranet should adapt to business needs, but this means experiments and trials may be necessary, and not every development will succeed. Sarah Blackburn, Client Success Manager at EasySharePoint, shares her advice around ensuring the intranet progresses in line with people’s needs and expectations.
Over 18,000 members of staff have embraced Ochsner’s new intranet as the central hub of information. The large healthcare organisation crafted a personalised digital workplace to better engage and communicate with their employees, and support better decision making.
Following the merger between two businesses, the UK financial services group, Just, needed to unify its internal culture and identity in line with their new way forward. The modern corporate intranet, HQ, is their primary enabler of cultural engagement across 1,000 employees.
Principality Building Society is connecting over a thousand employees across Wales and the borders with their new social intranet. After 14 years’ reliance on out-dated tech, the new platform provides a friendly place for staff to contribute and collaborate.
What’s the link between the intranet ‘now’ and the future of work? Learn more from Intranet Now conference founder, Wedge Black. In this interview, he describes the latest developments in the intranet industry and shares valuable intranet lessons and stories with MARGINALIA. Readers are of course encouraged to get involved in his fourth event — the largest intranet conference in the UK — Intranet Now 2017 will take place on 5th October in London.
VolkerWessels UK has built and launched its new staff portal using EasySharePoint, to unify 2,500 employees across the construction company’s numerous sites and five business units. Amanda Speirs, Corporate Communications Manager, shares the process and the lessons learnt.
Bryan Schoening, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at ElevatePoint, believes that a successful intranet must provide a “comprehensive communication experience.” Here’s how.
The founder of IntranetNow, Wedge Black, believes that it is time to develop “software curiosity” in order to work and communicate more productively. Gloria Lombardi interviews.
The Intranet Now Diamond Award is unique among intranet awards, as it is awarded to an individual for their remarkable contribution to the community at large.
Award winning UK public sector body sees significant uptick in knowledge sharing. Over 93% of all content and knowledge is created and shared by employees rather than traditional author groups.
With a holistic approach to employee communications and engagement, the Wellcome Trust has an inspiring working environment.
Thousands of digital workplace professionals from across the world joined the 24-hour virtual conference run by the Digital Workplace Group (DWG) on 20th and 21st May.
The leading law firm empowers 4,600 staff to collaborate and share knowledge on ‘InSite’ – a new SharePoint 2013 global intranet across 20 countries.
Intranet Now! The UK’s first un/conference for comms and intranet people was an inspiring exploration of today’s working practices.
In 2012, The Nature Conservancy launched CONNECT: the new social intranet to give staff at the environmental organisation the ability to share information and collaborate across 36 countries.
The Canadian marine energy services provider opts for the ESN as its only port of call for employee information.
Supported by Brightstarr, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) rolled out a new social intranet, integrating SharePoint 2013 with their Yammer social network.
