{"id":5223,"date":"2011-10-25T12:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:20:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T10:20:37","slug":"quick-poll-results-the-most-useful-intranet-content-types-world-internet-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/25\/quick-poll-results-the-most-useful-intranet-content-types-world-internet-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick poll results: the most useful intranet content types (world Internet Challenge)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(this article is extracted from worldwide intranet challenge<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

I ran a\u00a0poll<\/a>\u00a0recently asking people to rate the usefulness of\u00a09 intranet content types that add value to your organisation<\/a>.\u00a0221 people (as at Sat Oct 15) responded to the poll and the results were surprising.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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In comparison to the other content types, the usefulness of news\/blogs was relatively well down the list. And yet many intranet home pages continue to be dominated by news (see tables below).<\/p>\n

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Implications for intranet home page design<\/h3>\n

If we look at the intranet home pages submitted to the\u00a0My Beautiful Intranets competition of 2011<\/a>, we can see that the majority of these are comprised of news, articles, latest news, internal news, external news, company news, announcements, etc.<\/p>\n

Where is the space for these other, more useful content types?<\/p>\n

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Implications for top level intranet navigation<\/h3>\n

If we go further and also review the top level menu items for each of these pages, it is difficult to find top level menu items called ‘How to’ or ‘Procedures’. In fact from the 37 home pages submitted and the 13 top level navigation items identified in the article\u00a0Intranet information architectures<\/a>\u00a0(50 in total), I counted the following:<\/p>\n