Employee engagement and the intranet
Employee engagement is often a misunderstood term; to many managers confuse it with employee satisfaction. In short, engaged employees aren
Buying or moving to a new CMS? Be very careful
With hundreds of potential vendors to select from, selecting the right Content Management Solution (CMS) requires due diligence. “We have outgrown our CMS and are desperately in need of a new more robust method for keeping our site competitive”, says …
Intranet case study: Universal McCann (UM)
Universal McCann (UM) is a global media communications agency with 2800 employees in 66 countries. UM undertakes massive marketing campaigns and media buys for large Fortune 500s such as Coke, Mastercard, Microsoft, and others. With a highly distributed workforce, UM …
The future of intranets
The future looks bright for the corporate intranet. While it continues to play poor cousin to the corporate website, suffers from chronic under-funding, poor resources, and is plagued by information architecture, usability, and search problems. But there is hope. I
Web 2.0 is content that matters
Yes, the blogosphere and
Understanding the new breed of intranet managers
(TORONTO, ON) According to an inter-generational survey of workers, the younger generations of workers are set to dominate the workforce, but have slightly different motivations. The study reveals that by 2012:
SharePoint: Square pegs in round holes
Prescient's Jed Cawthorne discusses the time and place for SharePoint (MOSS): Microsoft's SharePoint technologies have their sweet spots in that they definitely fulfill specific requirements for certain use cases within the bigger picture of varied information management scenarios. However, MOSS …
Intranet 2.0 sits on the back burner
As I highlighted last week in Web 2.0 not a priority for CIOs, the adoption rate of social media is surprisingly low given the adoption by every day consumers. Here
Employee social networking (case study)
We humans are social creatures. With rare exception, we strive to relate, converse and connect with others. Social networking promotes online communities of interests and activities that promote connections between users in a more open and robust manner than simple …