How Microsoft 365 can help internal comms reach frontline workers
Despite there being two billion of them worldwide, outnumbering desk-based workers 2:1, frontline wo...
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Frontline workers: how internal comms can reach this elusive audience
They make up nearly two-thirds of the global workforce, 88% of businesses employ them and they’re ...
What type of intranet is right for your organisation?
If you’re looking for ways to improve communication and collaboration within your organisation...
The hidden risks of using a third-party SaaS intranet with Microsoft 365
Using Microsoft SharePoint Online for your intranet and coming up against some of its limitations? I...
Are custom built SharePoint web parts worth the risk?
When it comes to internal comms within a Microsoft 365 environment, it’s tempting to think SharePo...
How to use analytics to raise your intranet game
If you’re an intranet owner, analytics can play a vital role in the success of your intranet....
How to get better outcomes from Copilot for Microsoft 365 and generative AI
If you’re one of the lucky ones to have the new Copilot for Microsoft 365 licence, you’ll have a...
Monique Zytnik on AI and internal communication
Are you using AI for your internal comms? According to an IoIC survey of internal comms professional...
Transforming SharePoint into a powerful intranet: a Fresh Intranet FAQ
So, you’ve got out of the box SharePoint as part of your Microsoft 365 licence and want to use it ...
4 ways to use an intranet during a merger and acquisition
At our inaugural Fresh Perspectives event back in February, one of the key things that came up was t...
Is ‘reducing email’ a realistic measurement of intranet success?
Clients often come to us with the objective of reducing emails as one of their reasons for getting a...
Why video should play a key part in your employee communication
Are you using video as part of your employee comms toolkit? According to studies, the human brain ca...
Dispelling the mystery around generative AI: 3 practical ways to use it in a SharePoint intranet
The astonishing rise of ChatGPT has propelled generative AI into the public consciousness. But how c...
5 ways intranet owners can use SharePoint Premium
If you are an intranet owner or manager, you know how challenging it can be keeping your intranet co...
How to increase employee engagement and build communities in your SharePoint intranet
With remote and hybrid working continuing to rise (according to ONS statistics, as of June 2023, 29%...
How to launch your SharePoint intranet quickly
With almost half of employees working remotely full time or on a hybrid basis and younger workers ex...
How to enhance the search experience in your SharePoint intranet
More than 200 million people worldwide use SharePoint daily. Despite this number of users, many have...
The journey of the humble intranet – From ‘filing cabinet’ to digital hub for modern hybrid working
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Fresh intranet climbs to new heights for employee experience
We’re delighted to announce that we’re putting the final touches on a major update to Fresh. Thi...
Is your Intranet fit for the new world of hybrid work?
It seems like an understatement to say that there has been a lot of change over the last year and a ...
Has Microsoft Viva killed the intranet?
The launch of Microsoft Viva earlier this year led some to speculate on whether the intranet would s...
Intranet implementation best practice
Implementing a new company intranet, or digital workplace, is a team effort and no small undertaking...
Enhancing Your Intranet with Microsoft Viva
Microsoft Viva can add value for your intranet and employees, combining your existing technologies a...
New year, new site, same excellent IT support from Mirus IT
Nearly 18 months ago, we were delighted to welcome Mirus IT to the Content+Cloud family, as our cent...
A checklist for choosing the right intranet software for your business
A quick guide to intranet software tools So, you’re looking for simple intranet software, but wher...
Your guide to the best internal communications software
And using an intranet as a communication tool for your employees The trauma that was 2020 taught us ...
Company intranet FAQs – Answering your most popular questions
Company intranets: Frequently Asked Questions Welcome; chances are you’ve landed here because youâ...
Good Options for Implementing Your Intranet or Digital Workplace
Top Tips for Project Managing Your New Company Intranet So, you’re considering deploying a new int...
How to Make Your Company Intranet Sing
Increase Employee Engagement With These Content Ideas Most of us are familiar with the term ‘build...
Crisis Communications: Advice For Employee Comms In The Covid Era
Employee Engagement and the Role of the Intranet in the COVID Crisis and Beyond In times of crisis, ...
Out-Of-The-Box vs Custom-Built: Which Is The Right Intranet For You
Intranet: buy or build? An intranet is a centralised virtual office, where your team can collaborate...
Yammer, Teams and SharePoint: Microsoft Ignite Key Announcements
Outside of email, the core applications that many organisations will be putting in front of their em...
What’s to come in SharePoint: Microsoft Ignite Announcement
What’s to come in SharePoint It’s been about 3 years since Microsoft began transitioning fro...
Creating Your Digital Workspace Roadmap
A modern intranet, or ‘digital workspace’, can breathe life into internal comms. But progressing...
Project Cortex: Microsoft Ignite Announcement
Over in Florida, at their annual Ignite conference, Microsoft have announced the “first major ...
Common Internal Comms Mistakes
Common Internal Communications Mistakes Internal communications, the function responsible for effect...
IT Lab Group (Content and Code + IT Lab) announces support for Microsoft Managed Desktop globally
15 July 2019, LONDON: Today IT Lab Group (Content and Code + IT Lab + Perspective Risk) announced it...
5 Steps To Finding Your Corporate Intranet Provider
You’ve made the decision that a corporate intranet is what’s needed in your organisation...
A Fresh Digital Workspace for Retail
The retail sector, by definition, is any business or individual who is involved with selling product...
Remote Working Hotspots in London
With the increase of mobile and more flexible working, employees aren’t always trapped to work...
How to Increase User Adoption
Before we look at the ways in which you can improve user adoption, let’s define what adoption ...
Important Internal Communications Trends for 2019
We’re already one month into 2019 so, if you haven’t already, it’s time to start looking a...
Technologies, Triumphs & Troubles in the Digital Workplace
The average person will spend over a third of their waking hours at work. This figure should give or...
How Improved Internal Communications Benefit Everyone
“The two words information and communication are often used interchangeably, but they signify ...
Defining an Intranet Deployment Strategy
You’ve made the wise decision to launch a new, modern intranet in your organisation. You’re read...
10 Tips for Encouraging Collaboration
Collaboration – the action of working with someone to produce something. Surely this is someth...
Mental Health in the Workplace
More people than ever are working with mental health conditions. Roughly 15 out of every 100 people ...
Bringing Internal Comms and IT together for Intranet success
In the journey to implementing a successful intranet it’s crucial that your IT and IC (Interna...
How Modern Intranets Compare to Traditional Intranets
To begin, let’s look at what an Intranet actually is. An intranet is private network only avai...
Digital disruption: how it affects the Digital Workplace
Firstly, what is digital disruption? Digital disruption is the term for the change which occurs when...
How to build an effective Business Case
To begin, we’ll strip it down to the basics. What is a business case? A business case is a wel...
Digital Transformation: Improving the Public Sector
Exactly what do we mean by digital transformation? Digital transformation is the change associated w...
Team sites versus team sites. Making sense of Office 365.
There’s no doubt that Microsoft and Office 365 are rapidly delivering functionality on their c...
Intranet customisation, how can it be achieved?
In the world of intranets there are two types of personalisation – those that are planning to ...
How to connect and engage with your deskless workforce
We talk about innovative technology that can empower your employees. It’s time we took care of the...
Office 365 and the digital workplace
We will be running a series of blogs highlighting the digital workplace tools that Microsoft have to...
How our knowledge makes Fresh better
There’s an enormous difference between a good Intranet and a bad Intranet – trust us, we’ve se...
Heathrow wins Transformation Project of the Year
We are proud to announce that Heathrow Airport have won this years Workplace Transformation of the Y...
A history of extensibility in SharePoint and how Fresh chose a model
Server history In the old days of SharePoint there was a single obvious choice to consider when buil...
Intranets, Collaboration and Site Templates….and Pizza
Why pizza? Who doesn’t like pizza?! Setting the scene It’s Friday night, you’ve fi...
6 key learnings from delivering successful intranets
The word intranet brings up a mixture of emotions. I’ve heard that ‘intranets are dead’ but th...
Internal Communications and GDPR: What does this mean?
Internal communications teams should play a key role in broadcasting their organisations commitment ...
What would a digital workspace look like at your company?
What would your perfect workspace look like? We’ve all dreamed at some point about what our ideal ...
How does a real world digital workspace deployment work?
In the previous post on our digital workspace series, we discussed what a great Intranet setup could...
What does industry research say about the digital workspace?
The emergence and evolution of the digital workspace is one of the most profound workplace trends in...
5 features of Fresh that will delight your end users
A recent industry report found SharePoint 2010 was deployed in as many as 54% organisations across t...
How the digital workspace aligns IT with business strategy
Our series so far has covered a lot regarding the digital workspace – what it looks like, how it w...
Why a digital workspace is better than a custom made portal
Traditionally speaking, companies have custom built their Intranets using platforms such as SharePoi...
How to create a business case for a rapid deployment digital workspace
This is the final post in our series on Fresh, our innovative digital workspace powered by Office 36...
How to bring your intranet into the 21st Century
For much of history, the horse-drawn cart was the primary method of transport for carrying people, g...
Could your company intranet ever be liked, or even popular?
There was a time, long ago, when your company intranet was like a pleasant and picturesque landscape...
5 key ways to make an intranet easy to use
What do people say about your intranet usability? Are colleagues always happy, or are there the same...