What makes a successful intranet manager?

Monday, December 7, 2009 0 comments

Just found a very interesting podcast on what makes a successful intranet manager of Catherine Grenfell by Jane McConnell of Globally Local. Check it out here: http://www.netjmc.net/globally_local/2009/11/catherine-grenfell-on-successful-intranet-managers.html

Don’t miss the boat!!!

Friday, August 21, 2009 0 comments

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The annual “Global Intranet Trends” survey closes in just a few days (10 to be exact). 

If you run an intranet make sure you take the survey!  Oh, and by the way for doing the survey (took me less than an hour) you will be send a free copy of the 2009 report!!

So don’t miss the boat!

http://www.netjmc.net/intranet-trends/how-to-sign-up-for-2009-survey.html

Just finished the Global Intranet Survey…have you?

, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 0 comments

If you are involved in your company’s intranet and have not yet taken Net Strategy JMC’s Global Intranet Survey 2009, you should.  Just head on over to http://netjmc.typepad.com/globally_local/2009/06/2009-global-lntranet-survey-goes-live-participate.html to sign up.

Cheap recognition

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These days it seems like everyone is trying to save a dime and companies are obviously no different.  The problem is in corporate America, employees tend to get a little sore if they loose all the little recognition perks they have been so used to getting.

At my company, we have been working hard this year on putting in a few little features into our intranet so employees and leaders can provide no-cost recognition to peers and subordinates.

P.R.O.P.S.

P.R.O.P.S. or People Recognizing Other Peoples Success is a little tab on our employee yellow pages that allows employees to send a quick message of encouragement or congratulations.  The message is posted to the employees profile page where the whole company can view the success (unless it is marked private).

Employees can send up to 10 of these little gems per month.  We limited it so each time a kudos is sent, it really has some meaning behind it: “I can only send 10 of these out this month, I’d better make it count!”

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eCards

The other little project completed this year was a branded eCards site.  This simple site also allows employees to send a message to other employees (or out side of the company for that matter) a branded image and message.

Messages include Happy Birthday, Congratulations, Thank You, Job Well Done, and the like.

Unlike P.R.O.P.S., eCards are privately sent only to the intended recipient.

 

I hope you can see that it does not take too much effort to provide creative solutions to employee engagement and recognition.  A few simple tools strategically added to your intranet can turn it from dull business site to socially engaging intranet!

Run an intranet??? Take a survey!!!

Wednesday, July 22, 2009 0 comments

Jane McConnell of netjmc.com is running an intranet survey through the end of August. For your effort, you will get a copy of the 2010 "Global Intranet Trends" report. That reminds me....I still need to take the survey...thanks for extending it Jane!

The 4th annual Global Intranet Strategies Survey opened at the end of June and will stay open until August 31. All participants receive a complimentary copy (pdf) of the " Global Intranet Trends for 2010" report that will be published in the second part of October.


The key themes this year are:

- The workplace: Are intranets catching up with what people need to do their jobs?
- Collaboration: How does the online workplace support virtual teams and communities of practice?
- Social media: To what extent is social media being used internally and for what purposes?
- Search: Is enterprise search still a perennial problem? What strategies and resources are being put into place to optimize it?
- Ownership, governance and strategy: Who owns the intranet and what operating models and strategies are in place to drive business value?
- Measuring value: What indicators are being used to measure the value the intranet brings to an organisation: adoption, usage, satisfaction, workforce coverage, reduction of risk, business value?

Instructions for applying:
http://netjmc.com/survey/sign-up-JMC-global-intranet-survey-2009-2010.html


More information: 2009 Global lntranet Survey goes live! Participate!
http://netjmc.typepad.com/globally_local/2009/06/2009-global-lntranet-survey-goes-live-participate.html


You can contact Jane McConnell (jane@netjmc.com) directly for more information.

My Twitter Experiment

Friday, June 5, 2009 0 comments

No, Twitter is not really strictly intranet related. But everyone is doing it right?

I have been seeing all kinds of websites talking about how to increase your business through Twitter. Some even suggesting you can get 17,000 followers in a month! So I just had to try it for my little handcrafted pen business I do on the side, The Norsk Woodshop (http://www.NorskWoodshop.com).

A lot of these methods say to follow as many people as you possibly can or at least as many as you can find that are somewhere in your target (buyers or co-artists in my case). So that's what I did. Last night, I started a dedicated Twitter account for The Norsk Woodshop. And started following my guts out. I have found 171 people to follow so far using a really neat tool http://twitseeker.com that you can search for terms and then automatically follow those people.

Out of the 171 I have followed, I so far have 6 followers. Not 17,000, but it is a start, especially considering it took me months to get that many for my personal Twitter account (I guess I am just not that interesting).

I will keep at it for at least a month and report back my progress!

You can follow The Norsk Woodshop at http://www.twitter.com/norskwoodshop.

Intern Wanted!

Thursday, May 21, 2009 0 comments

Are you a college student working towards a 4 year degree in Computer Science or a related field? Do you live in the St Petersburg, FL area (or know someone that does)? Can you get credit from your school for an internship? Have a passion for usability, clean code, and ASP.NET?

If so, I want you!

I am currently looking for a summer intern to help work a on few intranet related projects here at HSN. Go to HSN Careers and search for job #0802182.

Patrick

Why are we afraid of employee comments?

, Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3 comments

I am currently working on an internal blogging package for my company. Besides the standard blog pieces, it contains some special communications features such as digest and on-demand emailing.

I have been fighting for allowing employee's to comment on items posted through the site. However, there is a great fear from our HR group. To help, I have made comments disabled by default and can be turned on by message, however right now, I am also working on a moderation option.

So why is HR, or executives for that matter, so afraid of employee's having the ability to comment on company news? What ideas do you have to help sell having open comments always turned enabled on our site?

I would love to hear from everyone!

Pooped for Performance Management

Friday, January 2, 2009 0 comments

It's a new year and time for new projects!!! We have just completed our new Performance Management system and its up, running, and doing quite well.

Our new system was all built from scratch using ASP.NET 2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server back-end. The new site includes some cool for us but pretty industry standard features including a visual process map so it's harder to get lost during the process, a task based system that lets employees and leaders know what needs to be done and when, as well as a new spiffied up tab/wizard interface for each major process including goal planning and evaluation writing.

That being said, it is now time for some new projects!! Yippee!!! I also have grand hopes of writing a bit more in this space about what I am currently working on, big wins, and some notes/thoughts of my current research.

See you more through the new year!

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