In my many years of working with intranets, I have always said that content is king. When your content is written and structured well, systems that use the content work better. This was always true for the intranet search engine. Now this includes AI.
Version 5 of Govintranet was released this year, rebranded as ‘Govintra’.
It was not the big bang move to the WordPress block editor that I had initially envisioned. We still use the Classic Editor and widgets, because clients can’t cope with creating element after element in the block editor. But the new theme contains many new features and improvements.
I’ve built many intranets — large government departments, small charities, and everything in between. And one problem always comes back: search that doesn’t really help.
You type, hit Enter, and get a list of results. Maybe one of them is right. That’s not intelligent — that’s just fast indexing.
So I decided to go further.
I gave my Govintranet installation a brain.
We don’t have thousands of staff like the big government departments, hospitals and local councils that we support, but we still need an intranet.
The WonderWall module of GovIntranet has been in place on a number of client intranets for a few years. And now we have seen the first self-nomination on a wall.