What makes a good company intranet

[Littlepeahead]

We've decided to re-launch our company intranet as it's never kept up to date so no one uses it. We're talking to staff about what they would like it to feature but I thought I'd throw this one open to any of you who use an intranet at work or work in IT to see what you think works really well and perhaps what doesn't.

We'll have staff profiles, new starters, daily updtes about events going on, the staff canteen menu and a useful documents folder for things like sickness and holiday forms. But if you can make any further suggestions then please post them up.

For info, we are a huge cricket ground, so not one big office block where everyone sits in cubicles in one building. Geographiclly we are spread over a large site and this in itself can hamper our internal communications. And the age range of our staff is 17 to 76!

Thanks

space to put adverts to shift unwanted items,

Workers Wives.

Originally Posted by 454697819

space to put adverts to shift unwanted items,

we have this on our pinboard and it works well.

Company policies
Feedback
vacancy list

Company telephone directory/useful numbers

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

We've decided to re-launch our company intranet as it's never kept up to date so no one uses it. We're talking to staff about what they would like it to feature but I thought I'd throw this one open to any of you who use an intranet at work or work in IT to see what you think works really well and perhaps what doesn't.

We'll have staff profiles, new starters, daily updtes about events going on, the staff canteen menu and a useful documents folder for things like sickness and holiday forms. But if you can make any further suggestions then please post them up.

For info, we are a huge cricket ground, so not one big office block where everyone sits in cubicles in one building. Geographiclly we are spread over a large site and this in itself can hamper our internal communications. And the age range of our staff is 17 to 76!

Thanks

Make it easy to update and use.

Make it possible to just email stuff to the site, whether that be little twitter-like comments or status mesages or important information.

If you can make the interface the same as what people already use and are familiar with then you are a lot of the way to winning the battle.

[Viney]

A good easy menu system to find stuff. The L&G one is awkward to find tihings like forms, details about people in departments, who to see about what, etc. It can also be vauge in areas. Thiers is used to advertise what the company is doing in the work place, and putting articles etc. Which i can find on their website. The intranet should be about the people, the internal runnings of the company, stuff going on and as i say a nice simple area for useful items that you may need to do you job on a daily basis. The org charts on their intranet took me ages to find. Oh and a search that actually works.

[timwilky]

Firstly take overall control out of the communications department. Empower individual departments to manage/update their own areas.

There should be no broken links, information should be accurate and upto date. Archive off obsolete information etc.

Make it the single source for your policy documents, news, indexes, links to internal wikis etc.

a who to go to section
eg who's your fire marshall, first aiders, report faults too

joke of the day

ours has those dilbert things, simple but gives you a smile in the morning when you turn the computer on