Get an inside look at the 10 best intranet designs of 2010 — this 449-page report is the only place to find this information. Comprehensive case studies inform you of the trends and challenges of the year, which you can use to improve your own intranet design.

The winning intranets were chosen by expert review based on design and usability, from a field of hundreds of nominations.

Benefits

Design patterns that contribute to the winning intranets’ success, and tips for incorporating them onto your intranet
Information on the methods and technologies used to achieve the vision within an organization's framework
198 full-color screenshots of before and after designs, which are usually protected behind the organization’s firewall

Topics

• Mobile intranets and iPhone apps
• Emergency preparedness
• Company and industry news
• Integrating internal and external information sources
• Editorial control of the intranet homepage
• Editorial workflow
• Keeping the intranet up-to-date
• CEO blogs
• Employee and department weblogs
• Onboarding of new employees
• Consistent navigation
• Page templates and consistent page layout
• Multimedia and video on intranets
• Data visualization
• Web 2.0 features on intranets ("Enterprise 2.0")
• Employee-contributed content
• Internal classified ad boards
• Collaboration tools and discussion boards
• Internal wikis
• Reward points and other ways to encourage community participation
• Online meetings
• Employee self service
• Search
• Governance
• Development process for intranet redesigns
• Web analytics for intranets
• Staffing of intranet teams; where they report in the organization
• Intranet branding
• Change management
• Collapsible List
• Promoting new intranet features
• Staff directory and employee profile pages
• Expertise finders (locating coworkers with specific knowledge)
• Corporate calendars
• Personalization
• Customization
• Alerts
• Working with external design agencies
• Intranet budgets and staffing

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