When you hear a great new piece of music, or see a ground-breaking new film, just sometimes you get the feeling that everything that has gone before seems instantly outdated. Of course you realize later that what you previously thought was outstanding is, in fact, still outstanding. But you’ve simply found an enticing new form […]
The 2014 SmallWorlders Christmas Card is already well under way. For those of you who experienced the emotional highs of last year’s Dancing Shed, we thought a quick round-up of our Christmas Card Journey™ might help you appreciate the lows (and mid-levels) of what’s gone before. Seeing as I have personally travelled every inch of […]
Welcome to the first of our Friday Night Links series, where different members of the team write-up their favourite links of the week. Google’s ‘Material’ Interaction Design First off Google’s new design. Lots of discussion in the studio this week about the Google Material guidelines (and oohing & aaahing at the wonderful Google Inbox). I […]
Senior communications executives from BT, Balfour Beatty, BBC, EE, Linklaters, Experian and Old Mutual joined SmallWorlders for a round table on Intranet Engagement Benchmarking in the Soho Hotel yesterday. In return for providing their intranet data, the companies received a report card specifying their engagement score and how this compared to the benchmark of all […]
It was conceived as a boring platform where people could fill in a timesheet, or download an expense report. No one ever thought it should be fun, so it ended up as a triumph of function over imagination. For finance departments or operations types, this kind of dull functionality might be acceptable. But for marketing […]
Struggling to understand engagement? Engagement is a woolly term. One of those ideas that everyone agrees is a jolly good thing without anyone ever having to really define what they mean. Unsurprisingly intranet ‘gurus’ love engagement. But for those of us at the sharp end of making stuff work, how can you really tell when […]
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It’s that time of year when the doyens of web usability, the Nielsen Norman group, publish the Intranet Design Annual 2011. The report is the intranet equivalent of Top Gun: the place where only the ‘best of the best’ get their name on the plaque. And (cue drum roll and muffle natural modesty) we’re made […]
