Gee, just when you think everything is going sooooo smoothly, with all the bells and whistles of the intranet redesign coming together, and then left of centre, an email is sent around our company today (Friday at 12pm) indicating that the launch of the new brand is not happening Monday, but Wednesday. Luckily my boss interpreted the true meaning of the email and alerted me to the fact that the email also meant that the Intranet would not be launched till Wednesday.
So, from 12pm today, it was time to steer the ship for another two days before the launch.
What does this mean? Well, today when I was to leave work, all emails and technology would be in place to send around a company email and log on script to the new intranet on Monday morning from 7am. But that will now happen on Tuesday afternoon. It’s fortunate for one reason, our Data Manager has been at a conference all week and he would have been required to work over the weekend to do some tidyups to the intranet and databases before Monday. At least he can enjoy his weekend !!
I’m really looking forward to the launch and hearing our staffs reactions to our new and improved intranet.
What’s so fantastic about this rebranded product?
* The Homepage contains more links to reduce the “two or three click syndrome”. However, more links does not mean that the page is overloaded with links, we now believe it has the right balance of links
* All the portal links are on the front page
* We added links on the frontpage to highly used applications, such as the library catalogue
* The intranet ties in really well with the new company brand, which includes graphics, fonts and colours
* We have added a couple of immediate search fields on the front page, to specific applications, such as the library catalogue, the staff phone list
* To do, over the next six months, is to add a search engine.
