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Kewnet revisited

…imately save time and resources. https://intranetdiary.co.uk/2018/05/its-not-just-the-temperate-house-thats-been-revamped-at-kew-gardens/…

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Government intranets acting fast

…ve quickly to keep staff up to date with changes. Since before the referendum, internal comms teams had been publishing information on purdah, advice on personal conduct and social media guidance. After the EU referendum results, intranets have had to transition fast to cope with the changing political landscape. At one department, they staged an all-staff video chat with the Permanent Secretary and Head of Comms the morning after the results. Sta…

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Parliament Week website. User experience design in action.

…at last for a month or two before the actual week. So we split the events listing page into 2 columns showing single day events on the left and longer events on the right. Single day events list in date order and as events pass they will drop off into the archive. Longer events list in order of those ending soonest. The interface allows people to filter the events, down to a single day. In this case, the left hand column shows all the events on th…

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Vision for a public sector intranet of the future

…sk questions and get help from each other. They can search for content and compare comments based on the wisdom of the crowd. They can subscribe to content instead of having it rammed down their throats. We can localise content and make it available where it matters. And perhaps a solution to a problem that the majority of intranets must face; the staff directory. Since staff will have their personal profile in front of them, their contact details…

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End of purdah and election 2010

…net Explorer version 6 as the corporate browser and who employ third party companies who leave sensitive data on buses. There are rumours that another government department has shut down access to Yammer, the internal micro-blogging tool. Despite having a vision of how the intranet could slowly start to engage staff more, allowing them to interact with each other and influence the direction of intranet development, my hopes of ever introducing a c…