Launching Your New Intranet

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The Intranet launch is crucial to its success; not only in the short run, but to its long term effectiveness. The key to success is ultimately how interested and invested employees are in the Intranet itself, because ultimately they are not just the users but also the main contributors. The following synopsis will touch on some basic ideas to help ensure your Intranet launch can be a success.

Successful Introduction

One way to do this is to hold a contest for naming the company Intranet. Another idea would be to have employees create their personal profiles in detail, where the capability exists such as the more modern social media-based Intranets. It is also a good idea to add content and share experiences, such as adding images to a Photo Gallery, in order to make the Intranet more social. When introducing a new Intranet it is essential to prepare initial content; for example, employee directory, upcoming events, and recent news.

Another way to induce Intranet usage in the introductory stages is to champion policy shifts. For example, make it policy that, instead of making handouts and flyers, use the ...
... power of the Intranet to distribute that information. In addition to saving trees, strain can be taken from the email server by putting a stop to mass emails.

Towards a More Efficient Future

After launching the Intranet, it needs to stay visible and useful to enable businesses to use it to its full potential. In order to do this, employees need to be encouraged to interact with the Intranet. The Intranet is a means to form a strong knowledge base and contributions (forum posts, projects etc.) are essential. To keep the Intranet visible, it is recommended that it is set as the default homepage on employees browsers. The Intranet is for the people and they should have a say about future improvements of the Intranet.

By taking into account these suggestions for a successful Intranet launch the company Intranet has a better chance of living up to its potential in the short-term and, more importantly, over the long run.

Marlon McMartin is founder and Managing Director of Office Ability Intranet Software, Intranet Launch. This article is copyright protected and may only be republished provided there is reference given to the author and a back-link provided to: http://www.officeability.com/ .