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Forget ‘news’; reference pages is where it’s at
Every department or project desperately wants front page headlines on the intranet to drum up interest. But news is ephemeral; it's the permanent reference pages that will inform and educate the audience the most.
Tiny business comms
The challenge of finding a balance between friendliness and professionalism in a tiny business.
The danger of islands on the intranet ocean
We once built unconnected 'mini-websites' for teams to work together within. The trouble was, there was no shortcut to visit. So no one visited. Waste of time. Waste of effort.
You cannot copyright your website
You really can't. A website takes more than one copyright statement to cover it.
9 mass mail good practices
Sending emails to hundreds of people is too easy - mistakes creep in and there's little you can do once you've pressed the send button.
Comms clangers – dropping the ball
I don't always get it right, and it's not always "someone else's fault". Miscommunication is a serious matter, and yet mistakes will happen.
Fear of the big projects
I need to throw-out my current intranet, and yet the risks of the new intranet project failing (in part) are so great I feel overwhelmed. Launch in t-minus three months.
You don’t own your work – your company does
Most likely, you don't own the work you do; you don't own the content you produce. Think about he copyright.
User experience as a core function of design (getting it wrong)
Nathanael strongly suggests designing for people, rather than designing 'for your brand'. Apple, Google, Microsoft, prick up your ears.
Showing off
It's not all glamour and glitz as a communicator; we have meeting invites to ignore and spelling mistakes to fixate on as well. Oh the myths!
We don’t need more corporate communication channels, we need local level conduits
What local level communication channels are available to Mildred, the booking system admin?
What annoys my intranet surfers
The list of things that annoy my intranet readers about web pages. Awesomely consistent.