Intranet News & Articles

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: Basic Intranet Guidelines and Standards

There are several important design and format details to keep in mind when creating an Intranet site. These considerations and standards are not meant to be restrictive but are presented to help ensure the overall consistency, success, and optimum performance of the Intranet. (read more at Intranet Journal)

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: Using the Intranet to Improve Internal Sales Communications

I suggested that perhaps it would make more sense to make this customer database available on the Intranet where the salespeople and marketing division could run reports whenever they wished. After a short reassurance that the Intranet is not accessible by "the whole world", I got the go ahead to make this happen. (read more at Intranet Journal)

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: A Sure-Fire Way to Drive Traffic to the Intranet

After my last column, people asked me about other big success stories from my Intranet, so I thought I'd share another "real big one" with you. One of the most sure-fire ways of driving traffic to your site is putting something employees absolutely need on the site and making that the only way they can get it. (read more at Intranet Journal)

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: The Intranet Users Have Spoken: Part III

I received an overwhelming response to my last two articles on the user survey and many readers wanted to know how the survey was designed, what types of questions were asked, and how the whole survey was administered. So, rather than answering a number of e-mails privately, I thought it would be best to share more details on this part of the survey experience with everyone. (read more at Intranet Journal)

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: The Intranet Users Have Spoken: Part II

In my last column, I shared with you the key conclusions from my recent Intranet survey. This time, I'd like to address the answers to the important questions of -- What do users want to see? What would encourage them to use the Intranet more often? (read more at Intranet Journal)

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: What Happens When the Intranet Users Have Spoken?

"Ask and you shall receive" ...feedback that is. After over 18 months since the intranet was "officially rolled out", it was time to formally ask users if they were using the intranet or not and to find out what they found useful or useless as well as determine what would get them to use it more. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Roadmap to a Successful Intranet

When you have a large pool of information to share among hundreds or perhaps thousands of employees, an Intranet is an invaluable option in cutting the cost of producing multiple hard copies, future addendums, magazine and trade paper subscriptions, and anything else that would normally have to be circulated by conventional means. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Intranet Corner: Efficiently Deliver News Over the Intranet

Last month, we described the steps necessary for building an Intranet to share your marketing and strategic information. This month, we'll address how you can efficiently deliver news over the Intranet, and what you should do to gain your users' enthusiasm. (read more at Intranet Journal)

P.G. Daly's Intranet Talk: "Organizational Structure and Its Impact on an Intranet ?"

Have you ever stopped to consider that the way in which your company is organized can have a significant impact on the workings of your Intranet? As Intranet professionals, we tend to think most about technology (if we are techies), design (if we are designers or artists) or functionality (if we deal with the business users). But how often do we consider the basic organizational dynamics of our company? (read more at Intranet Journal)

Make Your Intranet More Manageable

While there are many tools that will help with Web administration and tracking Web usage, there really aren't that many that help with specific intranet management. What separates an intranet administration program from a run-of-the-mill Web, LAN, or Internet management package? Basically, it's a recognition of the special problems of handling distributed data, servers, and personnel while helping to keep out intruders and allowing employees to be able to constantly change data. (read more at Intranet Journal)