Okay, so all motions were set in place for the Intranet Launch this morning.
My email informing our 270 colleagues of the new intranet was sent at 6.30am (thanks to outlooks’ abilities to schedule when my email will be sent). With a login script ensuring everyones browser opened up with the new intranet address, and all would be happening for them, right in front of their eyes.
I asked the email to send me a “read receipt”, just so I can peek who has opened the email, and so far I have about 140 of them. So that’s more than half the staff who have opened my email and presumably read it.
- How many comments have I received about it??
- Would there be a buzz in the office for the new intranet launch?
- Would the new intranet redesign and frontpage be well received?
Answer:
- 5
- No
- I don’t quite know
I only received about five emails remarking on the intranet….
Hmmmm, feels like resounding silence.
It’s funny, because I have showed the new intranet to the ILF group this morning. I told them the background of the redesign and that the launch would be happening today, etc etc, well, they all clapped and cheered and loved the new design. I am wondering if an intranet is like the saying “only a face a mother would love”??
I am aware that it’s end of the financial year and a few people have already approached me personally, so I believe I may elicit more feedback through one on one conversations.
An update to happen in the future on this….
Jill. I think that your resounding silence would have nothing to do with its failure as a project. The fact that your CEO or whoever expected it up in 12 days (!) is testament to the fact that most people simply have no idea, at all, as to the blood sweat and tears that goes into creating intranet sites/portals. Your ILF group did, hence the much deserved cheering.
I think that most corporate employees take intranet sites for granted now – they expect them to be there and they expect regular upgrades as part of the service provided by the KM group. But that’s not to say at all thay they wouldn’t be appreciating the new site and the increased usability if offers.
It would be much more worrying if you launched the site and got a barrage of complaints about broken links…
So, from one (former) intranet/portal chick to another = GREAT WORK!!!