{"id":66,"date":"2015-11-02T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisariemers.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T10:33:56","slug":"what-a-lovely-bunch-of-experts-at-intranetters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisariemers.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/02\/what-a-lovely-bunch-of-experts-at-intranetters\/","title":{"rendered":"What a lovely bunch of experts at Intranetters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I went along to a meet-up called Intranetters<\/a>, which is an awesome, predominantly London-based way to speak to other people involved in intranets.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
A strong start from @RichardHare<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s the first Intranetters meet I’ve been to and it was really rather good. Led by Richard Hare<\/a>, it was a great opportunity to see a brilliant case study from Barclays and hear from the chaps at Twine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Barclays LMS case study<\/h3>\n
\"A<\/a>
A brief snapshot of *some* of what was covered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s rare to get the chance to get an in-depth review of someone else’s intranet site. I really enjoyed hearing how Iain Trundle and Simon Thompson worked with a crack-squad to create a great-looking learning management system overlay for Barclays.<\/p>\n

\"Sketchnotes<\/a>
I also had the opportunity to try out my sketchnote skills again, although this time the presentation was much more in-depth, so these are probably most useful for my own record.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three themes I took away from the talk:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Bridge the gap rather than build a barrier<\/strong>
    \nAdd value to, rather than seek to replace existing management systems by providing connections and in-document search – SharePoint can be used to create an attractive interface, whilst using the back-end LMS and other systems for administration.<\/li>\n
  2. Hone your craft<\/strong>
    \nTake the best bits from elsewhere online to make user-friendly, engaging style, and take the time to write micro-copy to be as engaging as possible and add real value for your employees.<\/li>\n
  3. Deliver nice things and get more money<\/strong>
    \nEchoing a theme I took from     Shaula<\/a>‘s award-winning lightning speech at Intranet Now<\/a>, take opportunities for funding that come your way!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you are interested in finding out more about this case study, you can view an overview presentation<\/a> delivered recently by Martin Pope at the Intranet Now Conference .<\/p>\n

    Twine – making Agile work<\/h3>\n

    I was interested to hear about Twine<\/a>‘s work with graduate scheme participants to create a useful self-service portal for the NHS.<\/p>\n

    \"A<\/a>
    A captive graduate audience demonstrating exemplary agile work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    The case study was a fantastic example of working in a truly agile way, with two weeks on, and two weeks “off” for measurement, with fortnightly workshops to get feedback and plan the next sprint.<\/p>\n

    In my experience, it can be difficult to get that level of commitment from business stakeholders, who may have time to do that for a fixed period of time – say 3-4 weeks, but are unlikely to be able to commit for a longer period of time.<\/p>\n

    I am sure that this work on the portal had a positive impact also to the graduates’ experience of their learning scheme. With a defined reason to regroup, the discussion forums then become a natural extension to, and way to solidify and expand on conversations that have happened offline.<\/p>\n

    I have had similar success stories for much smaller projects or sub-groups; the successful use of a team site to cope through an enormous business change process with the implementation of a new finance system springs to mind.<\/p>\n

    Having a defined, discrete audience of interested stakeholders looking to solve a similar problem will definitely help drive better adoption. Which sounds entirely like common sense now I’ve written it, but finding a team that actually *wants* your help is one of the best ways I’ve found to generate success stories for my intranet.<\/p>\n

    It was also good to discuss just how integrated you should aim to be with other systems – depending on how often your data updates, a manual upload\/download of data should suffice.<\/p>\n

    Ideation<\/h3>\n
    \"Making<\/a>
    Making a successful ideation scheme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    We also looked at an interesting case study of Shell’s Ideation project. With a robust process in place to receive, feed back and develop ideas, it was a great example of how well ideation programmes can work when the appropriate systems (as in business processes, not necessarily IT) are in place.<\/p>\n

    In the pub<\/h3>\n

    So one of the best parts of these sorts of events took place in the pub next door. I got some great advice from industry experts (and hopefully was able to share some of my learnings too). I’d definitely recommend going along to the next event – find out more @Intranetters<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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