5 ways to liven up your workplace intranet

Company and organization intranets can be boring places. Some employees praise their workplace intranets and find them very useful, while others call them bland and stagnant.

It’s interesting that emphasis is often placed on external communications, while internal communications suffers. Don’t let your intranet be relegated to the tools-that-aren’t-very-useful category at your workplace. An intranet is an essential medium for communicating about a company or organization to employees.

Here are five ways to get your intranet back on track to being useful for internal communications:

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Is your website building relationships or turning visitors off?

I had an interesting conversation with a representative of an eco organization. When the conversation got around to the organization’s website, the response was: “It sucks.” It wasn’t my evaluation. It was the worker’s blunt assessment. “Why did it suck?” I asked. Well, responsibility for upkeep of the website fell to another person in the organization, I was told. The inference was: that person probably wasn’t too concerned that the website “sucked.”
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