Intranets Forum

The intranets forum is for UKeiG members interested in intranets. We hold free, informal meetings to provide opportunities for members to view other organisations' intranets and to discuss topics of mutual interest. Topics covered have included:

• small scale intranets
• discussion Forums
• SharePoint in action
• intranets in academia
• working with sub-editors
• planning your intranet strategy
• meeting accessibility standards
• marketing your intranet

First meeting of 2012

To be held on January 17th 2012, at Universities UK's central and comfortable offices at 20-24 Tavistock Square, WC1H 9HQ. Our speakers will be Sharon O'Dea from UK Parliament and Adam Pope from Arup presenting the products that won their organisations Gold Medals in October's prestigious Intranet Innovation Awards: respectively a MOBILE intranet, and "Amazing Race" a virtual race for charity hosted on an intranet site. It should be a fun afternoon, to chase the gloom of midwinter away! Timing as usual: Networking over hot drinks from 14:00, presentations and discussions 14:30-17:00. Further details to follow.

Meetings are advertised here and on our mailing list http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/UKEIG-INTRANETS-FORUM.html

A live drop in meeting is organised from 16:00 to 16:30 most Thursday afternoons in the electronic Discussion Room on the home page of our mailing list. It is advertised a few days previously on the mailing list and members are encouraged to drop in and share news, comments, problems, solutions etc.

The list and the Forum are membership benefits and attendees must be UKeiG members.

The Intranets Forum is organised by Dion Lindsay. Meetings are held approximately every 2 months. Please don't hesitate to contact Dion if you can offer to provide a venue, have an idea for a theme for a future meeting, or are willing to present screen shots of your intranet.

dion@dionlindsayconsulting.com

Meeting reports and presentations

2011

Successful launches 2011: held at British Dental Association HQ, 15 November 2011

• NCGC intranet launch (PDF). Joanna Ashe, Senior Information Scientist, National Clinical Guidelines Centre
• New term, new insite: Redesigning the University of Warwick's Intranet (PDF). Julia Pidgeon, Internal Communications Manager, University of Warwick Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Intranets for smaller environments: how different are their problems and features? held at British Dental Association HQ, 29 March 2011

• Sayer Vincent Intranet (PDF), Elaine Francis Sayer Vincent
• Small Intranets: are their problems and features unique? (PDF) Louisa Beeby Universities UK
• Intranets: approaches to the ICM: how sites can make your content shine (PDF), Adam Pope Arup University

• Breakout session: Changing culture/Change Management (PDF) Brunella Longo

2010

In house discussion forums: designs for collaborative working (PDF) held at Lawrence Graham LLP Suzanna Rickeard, 4th November 2010

ERM's Knowledge Sharing Platform (PDF) Angela Cleaver, 26th February 2010

2009

The BT Intranet story (PowerPoint) Mark Morrell, 30th September 2009
SharePoint at Hay Group (PowerPoint) Linda MacDonald, 21st July 2009
Discussion groups on SharePoint: some lessons learnt (PowerPoint) Janet White, 21st July 2009
How would a librarian design an intranet system (PDF) Jennifer Smith and Ben Summers, 9th February 2009
A survey of Imperial College London Library staff intranet: process and results (PowerPoint) Janet Corcoran, 19th February 2009

2008

Blog review of Intranets Forum drop-in session (Blog page) Danielle Worster, 25th September 2008
Web 2.0 at the British Library and the TUC's appliction of Google Mini (PDF) 25th June 2008

Reports of meetings are also published in eLucidate. For reports of meetings held before June 2008 see eLucidate archive

Factsheets

Go to factsheets for more advice about intranets.