The Blog on Internal Communication

The 30^th of January is the annual WSA-day 2019, a day that contains loads of speakers with specific competencies within for amongst others, intranet, artificial intelligence, digital marketing and[...]

People have always communicated, but in different ways. Spintr, just like many other intranets, is obviously built around communicating with your colleagues and sometimes even external parties.[...]

Communications are built, since the dawn of time, on someone wanting to convey a message. Easy? Sure! But why does it so often end up wrong and how can you actively work to prevent these mistakes,[...]

You can't teach an old dog new tricks, as the old saying goes. But the ability we humans have to learn new things is amazing and age is just a number. We learn new things every day throughout our[...]

The retail chain Cervera needed a more efficient, simple and secure way of informing and communicate with and between their 77 stores from Skellefteå in the north of Sweden to Malmø in the south.[...]

The number of ways we communicate with each other has exploded with smartphones and rapid connectivity. WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook, Slack, LinkedIn, Snapchat and last but not least[...]

Do you work in an organization where the inbox is constantly filled with emails that belong to all kinds of conversations and where you in the end have no idea what's what and where? You're not[...]

If you ever felt a bit disconnected, you know that the energy, interest and ability to deliver throughout the day, whether at work or at home, sink drastically. Because humans are pack animals and[...]

To feel secure in the process of starting up your new intranet there are always lots of questions for the various department or people in the workplace. These questions require answers.

To be seen and heard has long been an important ingredient to make our peers feel better. To a certain extent that's why social media have succeeded so much in modern society, we get the[...]

Large organisations have historically relied upon the intranet as a tool to communicate effectively and consistently across their workforce with news and information updates.

Many people see an intranet or a so called digital workplace, as a solution with almost endless possibilities to improve employee productivity and internal communication in the workplace.

And[...]

Intranet. A product for IT managers or the sign of a well functioning organisation?

Actic was experiencing an increasing need for investing in internal communication. With almost 3000 employees in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany and Austria, a joint platform for communication[...]

With high ambitions, but low on resources, Oxelösund municipality (county) wanted to find a way to work more efficiently, with more transparency and get all 1200 employees involved. They[...]

Fashion label me&i choose Spintr as their new intranet for approximately 900 employees across five countries. The purpose is to connect all their employees and increase the availability of current[...]

Some organisations go through a consideration of keeping their intranet locked to their internal network and employees are directed to VPN´s (Virtual Private Network) to use the intranet. The[...]

Social intranet, smart intranet, digital workplace… It goes by many names! But what is it that separates a social intranet from a traditional intranet, and why do we need it? Spintr answers these[...]

There are lots of challenges with an intranet project. This can be due to lack of experience, resource like time or money, technical obstacles/barriers or too big ambitions.Sometimes it can be[...]

In a project – large or small – a great deal of information and documents are created. Furthermore, a large number of messages and discussions between the team members are exchanged. There are[...]

You might have experience with the phenomenon – tools like Yammer, SharePoint, Slack or similar for social collaboration, team collaboration or project collaboration are launched internally and[...]

To save money on user licenses and administration of users, chains often choose to have one user account per branch instead of having one user account for each user on the intranet. This is a[...]

To have loads of great functionality and a nice looking design on the intranet is an excellent start. But it is maybe not enough to get your colleagues to actually use it. Here are five concrete[...]

The information across documents on the intranet is often a poor solution for your users. You can create more value and save time for your users by converting the documents to pages. Here are a[...]

If you're on the hunt for an intranet that creates real and measurable value, your focus should be more on the users and their needs than on the technology itself. The aim should always be to[...]