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| A successful launch gives your intranet a good start in life. However a successful launch doesn't necessarily require a lot of noise or a lot of budget. Here are some ideas from launches we have done in the past.
Pre-launch
Name the intranetGiving your intranet a name can help build its identity wtihin your organisation. If practical, include staff in the naming process. This not only creates a...more |
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| I’ve read a couple of posts recently about how long an intranet project should last. Step Two Designs suggested a range of timescales from 6 to 18 months depending on the objective. A vendor responded to this on CIO magazine’s blogs by suggesting it should take as little as 3 to 30 days (What are you folks reading this for? You could finish your intranet project over a weekend!)
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| The European president of a global company had contacted us to improve their organisation’s knowledge sharing and collaborative working practices. Between this initial call and our planned meeting however he postponed our discussions until 2011 as he was intending to “rein in discretionary spending”. I can understand that in difficult times companies need to find savings but this company was havi...more |
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Sometimes you see a design and it just works. Other times it just doesn't.
Such is the nature of design; it can be frustrating if you know it's 'not quite right' but you don't know how to fix it.
Fortunately there some broad rules that many well-designed sites follow.
So if you are planning an upgrade to your existing intranet, embarking on a new website project, or you're ...more |
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To coincide with the launch of our blog SmallWorlders created an eBook on the 7 pitfalls to avoid when designing
and managing your marketing intranet including:
Thinking a
technology project can deliver a great intranet - it’s a marketing
project every step of the
way.
Expecting your people to
use an intranet that can’t provide the socially rewarding experiences
people ex...more |
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