All posts by Jonathan Phillips


Radically Transparent Intranets

Any CIO worth their salt will have been shouting about cloud, mobility and big data in recent years and each has had an impact on our work on intranets. But there’s a new kid in town: radical transparency.  But what does this idea mean for corporations [read more]

Is your intranet a Grand Design success or nightmare?

We’ve all seen Grand Designs or its ilk: a happy and often naive team set about building their grand vision of a home, armed with a rudimentary architect sketch, a woefully small budget and some enthusiasm. Six months down the line, they realise they don’t [read more]

An #Intranet Users Charter

While every intranet will differ in functionality and design based on the needs and culture of the business it serves, we can’t pretend our intranets exist in isolation. Our users spend the majority of time on other sites, many of them very good ones. They [read more]

Intranetizen explained

We often get asked what the long term plan for intranetizen is. Tongue-in-cheek, we suspect a few consultants are slightly worried we might sneak on to their patch! But it’s a great question and one that we had struggled to answer. Recently, the team gathered [read more]

Beta Intranetizen

Your employees are your best source of information, guidance and inspiration when designing, developing and launching your intranet. In a similar vein, we thought you’d be very handy in providing feedback on the new intranetizen design – building on some of the feedback that many [read more]

Time to Get Generation ‘Why’

If you have children in your life, you’ll be only too aware of the power of the question “Why?”. Repeatedly being asked why is an impressively (and deceptively) simple technique for getting to the heart of a subject and can form a useful part of [read more]

Yammer & Klout: An intranet game too far

Earlier today, Yammer and Klout announced details of a new strategic partnership that will see Klout scores added to Yammer profiles. On the face of it, these are two complementary technologies — one providing prescient social networking functionality and the other giving an instant read-out [read more]


What is the value of ‘likes’?

We’ve lived with the words ‘like’ and its hateful neologism ‘unlike’ since Facebook introduced it almost five years ago. It’s become a staple of social media sites. We’ve all-grown used to seeing — and using — the like button to express delight in a post, [read more]