Intranet news isn’t just from Corporate Communication

When I presented a session at last month’s IntraTeam intranet conference in Copenhagen, I made one big assumption: organizational news is not just the domain of the corporate communicator I’ve believed this for a long time. What I didn’t account for...

Great news on SharePoint

I just got off the phone with a company trying to reach a multi-generational employee base. They’ve had a large influx of new employees, nearly all of whom are millennials. These young people have been tossed into a conservative company with many soon-to-retire...

Turning Intranet Strategy into a Decision Tool

What is your business strategy? I asked this no fewer than four times in a meeting just recently. I was trying to get a client team to discover how their intranet was connected to their business strategy. One fellow on the far end of the large conference room finally...

Enterprise Social Tech and Productivity

Finally,  quotable numbers: “These activities [answering, writing, or responding to email, trying to track down information and collaborating with co-workers] could potentially be done much more efficiently and effectively using social technologies – we...

Fun with portal adoption

While speaking this morning with a client about their portal, the client asked, “don’t you have to do some learning, some education, some training to get people to use the new intranet?” Big, fat duh coming in right here. Here’s an organization...

Welcome to the 21st Century

Last Friday, I took my daughter horseback riding. It’s her new passion. It’s my old passion. There we were on the trail with Fred, a 63-year-old wrangler with flowing white hair and a long white beard and mustache. He looks like something out of an 1890s western...