Intranet Got You Down??

Many companies have problems keeping their intranets user friendly. The intranet can easily be pushed to the back burner and become cluttered, have out of date content, poor search engines and irrelevant information. There are many reasons this can happen including lack of senior executive buy in. The management team may not see the value in spending resources on something that will not provide a quantifiable ROI.

Following are a few tips to update your intranet site:

1. Make the site easy to navigate so employees can find the information they want when they want it

2. Keep the content up to date and relevant

3. Utilize new technologies including RSS, wikis and social networking

4. Prove the value of the intranet and calculate ROI for senior management

5. Spend time to ensure that the content and services being provided are useful

6. Address your users needs