Blow up your intranet
Stumbled upon this article the other day and just had to post it. Chris McGrath from ThoughtFarmer had this to say about current corporate intranets
“Thousands of corporate intranets are seldom-used, impossibly complex beasts. In contrast, next-generation intranets are simple, social platforms that can change the way people work (for the better!). But getting to intranet 2.0 isn’t so easy.”
Something I’ve been banging on about for an absolute age. Chris, I couldn’t agree with you more. It’s time to blow up the old and wheel in the new. If you want an intranet that works for your business, don’t tell your employees what they want and force them to read it with mind numbing intranet update messages. Let them provide the content themselves, let them consume that information when they want to, and give them the freedom to say what they want (within reason of course!)
See Chris’s ten steps to intranet heaven here
Tags: internal communications, intranet, social networking, user generated content, web 2.0
August 26th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Glad you liked it! You might also find this related post interesting — results from our Intranet 2.0 survey.