Online Form Builder: A Hidden Gem of Intranet Productivity

16th August, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 4 Comments

Survey after survey indicate that some of the most popular applications on organizational Intranets are the employee directory, the cafeteria menu, and HR forms. What those surveys often don’t mention is the fact that many of those HR forms are still in MS Word or Adobe PDF format and aren’t able to be completed from within the browser.

New Intranet Wiki is here! Help us grow it with your input!

21st July, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

There are a lot of great Intranet-focused resources on the Web, but they are scattered across a wide variety of sites. In an effort to bring those resources together in a common place, Angie Cullen and I have put together the beginning of an Intranet Wiki with links to a broad range of resources.

Is It Time For Your Intranets Annual Performance Review?

8th July, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 7 Comments

It never ceases to amaze me how few people trust their organizational intranets. A tool that was designed specifically for the purpose of helping employees do their job better and faster is often the joke of the water cooler. Yet organizations knowingly ignore the fact that employees don’t use or trust the information stored on their intranet.

Periodically, I have the great opportunity to sit in front of a group of employees and ask them about their intranet experiences. Often, it’s in anticipation of an intranet revamp, so the need for a “do-over” or an evolution has already been defined at some level. While the individual users and comments might be different, they usually go start with something like this:

Recent Volcanic Eruption Can Help Stress The Importance Of Your Intranet Apps

24th April, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

Sometimes opportunities knock quietly….and sometimes they hit us with explosive force. The trouble is, we often miss them even though they are staring us right in the face. As an example, take a look at the recent volcanic explosion in Iceland. This natural disaster has demonstrated the need for business travelers to have access to their corporate information, regardless of where they are located.

Attention Corporate Executives! Your Time For Social Media Leadership Is Now!

13th April, 2010 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 3 Comments

About a year ago, I had a conversation with a then SocialMediaphobe who tried to convince me that social media was a fad that had no future in the workplace. His argument was that Facebook was too personal and Twitter too truncated to ever offer any value to business culture. I tried to convince him that, like all emerging technologies, social media was still finding its place in the workplace, but it was slowly, almost imperceptibly changing the way we communicate. His response was to try to dissuade me by saying “it’s just a bunch of people talking about what they ate for breakfast.”