*As seen in Dynamic Business Magazine
Has your intranet become a fancy phone directory? Intranet DASHBOARD co-founder and Director Connie Pandos explains how you can make it a more powerful tool for communicating with staff.
Over the years, intranets have become a ubiquitous part of the corporate communications landscape, but all too often they provide a disappointing experience – failing to deliver on their most basic promise, which is to provide the content staff are looking for.
Due to this lackluster performance, some organizations have come to expect that staff will make minimal use of their intranet. Staff might log in to look up the phone number of a colleague or to find an annual leave application form, and that’s about it. If that sounds familiar, then your organization is definitely missing out on the potential of your intranet to help staff to work faster and smarter, strengthen your company culture and let your staff feel engaged with an employer that listens. Click here to read more »
This article appeared in HR Monthly Magazine in May, and discusses how our client Jetstar used their iD intranet to connect and engage with their hugely disparate workforce. For full details on the challenges Jetstar faced and exactly how they solved them, see our Case Studies Page.
‘Come together’ – Intranets are re-emerging as a way to connect dislocated employees
With employees in constant movement all over the world, Jetstar is an ideal example of an organization looking to connect dislocated personnel. In late 2007, Jetstar decided it needed an adequate intranet system to keep its staff connected and engaged. “We had simply grown up as a business and we were starting to experience limitations in being able to communicate what we wanted, when we wanted,” says Jeff Martin, IT project manager for Jetstar.
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*As seen on Human Resource Executive Online
Home, Sweet Home (Office)
Telecommuting can save on real-estate costs, reduce pollution and give workers the flexibility many of them need. So why are so many organizations still against it?
The pluses associated with telecommuting (increasingly called “telework”) include a reduction in pollution as well as bottom line benefits such as reduced office real-estate costs. Employees continue to clamor for telework, making it an effective recruiting and retention tool. In fact, a recent survey by Irving, Tex.-based software provider Intranet DASHBOARD found that 36 per cent of employees would prefer the option to telecommute over a pay rise. Click here to read more »
*As seen on CMS Wire
CMS Wire has declared Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) the temporary victor in our long-running David and Goliath battle with Microsoft SharePoint. After coming away with not one, but two Intranet Journal Product of the year awards, we didn’t think life could get much sweeter and yet here we are. See below for the full article.
‘It’s not often that Microsoft gets beat in the intranet and collaboration game — what with its market leading SharePoint (MOSS) flying off the shelves and garnering much recent media attention.
The other day, however, Intranet Journal announced that Melbourne, Australia-based Intranet DASHBOARD had won, not one, but two awards in its first reader judged Product of the Year Awards. They went home the winner for both Best Intranet Design Software and Best Hosted Intranet Solution.’ Click here to read more »
*As seen in KM Review
As the popularity of social media increases ever more quickly, isn’t it about time your organization got on board? Here are some of the basics of using “web 2.0″ technology for your intranet with examples of organizations that are leading the way.
Intranet 2.0
The latest buzz word for advancing knowledge-sharing, is ‘SMIFing’ – social media inside the firewall. This refers to Web 2.0, or in this case, Intranet 2.0 paradigm shift which has been building for the past few years where collaboration and free speech reign, and users are encouraged to network and form the content of the site.
Tools such as, ‘Wiki’ and other knowledge base facilitators such as ‘frequently asked question’ lists, forums that include subscriber notifications, blogging, news and RSS aggregators. The beauty of these tools is that they give a voice to the ‘real’ people, as opposed to just management or the internal marketing professionals, demonstrating transparency and openness within the organization through two-way conversations. It also assists with networking, all those soft skills and benefits. On the internet front, tools such as MySpace have become so popular that even Rupert Murdoch deemed it important enough to spend $580m acquiring. Click here to read more »
