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4 Tips for Better Intranet Management

My fellow colleague Ayendra recently posted Removing the “IT Intranet” Perception, which outlined his previous experience working in a company where the IT department had become a bottleneck in the intranet communication process. After joining the Intranet Connections team and working with our customers, he saw examples of businesses using a different method of intranet management – smart delegation.  In these businesses distribution of content management meant the intranet was being utilized as a platform for collaboration, leading to a variety of benefits for the organization.

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/4-tips-for-better-intranet-management/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:36+00:00 October 3, 2013|Best Practices, Intranet Software|
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Superhero Intranets = Superhero Culture

Meet Eric Ryan, co-founder and self pledged co-parent of method. I had the pleasure of seeing Eric Ryan speak at the recent Art of Marketing conference and enjoyed the story of his journey on how the method brand turned the consumer-packaged-goods industry on its head. What struck me about Eric Ryan was not his enthusiasm, which was in abundance, or his charisma, also in abundance, but how their method company has produced a culture of innovation and ideas. I found myself smiling and head bobbing constantly during his talk. Yes!!

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/superhero-intranets-superhero-culture/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:36+00:00 September 25, 2013|Best Practices, Intranet Software|
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Removing the “IT Intranet” Perception

Do you remember that scene from Office Space? You know, the one where Milton gets moved down to the basement in hopes of being forever forgotten by the company? It’s funny because a lot of corporate projects often suffer the same fate once they land kitty-corner to the server room. It’s a bit embarrassing, but I’ll be the first to admit it – my initial experience with a business intranet revolved solely around ‘a glorified craigslist’.  The extent of my own usage was to load up our intranet home page, navigate to the “Buy and Sell” section, look for useless junk I didn’t need,

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/removing-the-it-intranet-perception/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:37+00:00 September 5, 2013|Best Practices, Intranet Software|
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Fun at the Expense of Productivity? Not a Chance

In a society where corporate efficiency is king, letting loose and being playful in the workplace has become taboo. Organizational cultures of commitment, contribution and professional excellence have become commonplace, with focus placed on raising productivity and increasing the bottom line. It is as though success and fun are viewed as mutually exclusive terms – “if we allow our employees to have fun, they won’t do any work”.  So employees push themselves to achieve this professional excellence, working longer hours and facing the looming threat of burnout. It seems to have been forgotten that the workplace is not run by systems,

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/intranet-organizational-culture/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:37+00:00 August 29, 2013|Intranet Software, Leadership & Strategy|
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Top 5 Employee Retention Strategies

I am heading into my 14th year running my intranet software company that serves thousands of organizations worldwide, including 260 banks and credit unions and 200 customers in the healthcare industry. Over the years we have grown and needed to onboard more employees. I had to adapt my management style and gain employee retention strategies that essentially spoke to my weaknesses.

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/employee-retention-top-5-strategies/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:38+00:00 August 1, 2013|Best Practices, Intranet Software|
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What is an Intranet? A Quick Reference Guide

Software selection can be intimidating, especially when starting from square one. Needing to learn the basics behind the software platform you are searching for, such as “what is an intranet?”, can be an overwhelming task. As you and your software selection committee commence your intranet selection journey and seek to define your intranet and business requirements, having a handy guide on essential definitions of commonly used terms within the intranet software industry can be invaluable. Setting the Baseline for Success This article is aimed to assist in getting you and your committee on the same page with common intranet industry

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/what-is-an-intranet-a-quick-reference-guide/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:38+00:00 July 25, 2013|Intranet Software, Social Intranets|
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Inspire Intranet Adoption Through Engaging Content

A common question we get from new intranet managers and prospective intranet purchasers is… “How can I drive adoption on my intranet?” While there are many different methods for engaging employees on your intranet, content is key.  If you aren’t publishing content that your employees and intranet users are interested in, they will not spend the time interacting with all the useful tools you have worked so hard to deploy on your intranet. Now you may be wondering, what does engaging content look like? How can I measure the level of engagement my intranet content is receiving? And, what is

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/content-driven-intranet-adoption/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:39+00:00 July 10, 2013|Best Practices, Intranet Software|
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The Art of Intranet Culture

This past week I attended The Art of Leadership at the Centre of Vancouver for Performing Arts a one-day event with inspirational speakers imparting wisdom on leadership and company culture, of which translates to intranet culture. I was struck by the session with John Mackey, who is co-CEO of Whole Foods Markets.  John spoke from a place of passion. It is evident that he loves his job and commitment to community and making a difference. For John, culture is the embodied values, principles and practices underlying the social fabric of a business, which permeate its actions and connects the stakeholders to

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/the-art-of-intranet-culture/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:40+00:00 April 17, 2013|Intranet Software, Leadership & Strategy|
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Agile Planning Techniques for Families… Seriously!

Hello! This will be my first blog post since starting here at Intranet Connections as the Software Architect just three weeks ago.  Over the long weekend, I listened to a fantastic TED talk that I thought would be valuable to share on the agile methodology and agile planning.

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/agile-planning-techniques-for-families-seriously/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:41+00:00 April 4, 2013|Best Practices|
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Start Your Collaborative Software Revolution

Within most organizations, sales and marketing efforts are closely aligned with each other’s business processes. The goals associated with business operations are usually directly or indirectly achieved through an effective sales and marketing process. As such, effective communication and collaboration is essential to a successful sales and marketing processes. However there are many challenges that must be overcome to achieve this. An effective intranet implementation should deliver collaborative software to increase productivity, improve responsiveness, reduce costs, and boost sales results.

http://www.intranetconnections.com/blog/collaborative-software-revolution/
By | 2017-09-15T09:49:42+00:00 February 14, 2013|Intranet Software|
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