Worldwide Intranet Challenge LinkedIn Group Newsletter #1

WICly news #1: Intranet news for the week: 26th August, 2011
Welcome to the very first Worldwide Intranet Challenge (WIC) LinkedIn Group weekly newsletter - the WICly news! I will publish this newsletter each Friday around the same time with brief highlights of activities that have happened in the group during the week. Just like a good intranet, the criteria for selecting the top discussions, stories and events listed in this newsletter is content quality.  Content that is relevant to the group, interesting and thought provoking will be most likely to get a mention here. A couple of examples of good stories are below: If you haven’t already, I’d recommend you take a look at Maish Nichani’s Manager’s guidebook to intranet redesign projects. A very useful and practical guide Participation in Jane McConnell’s intranet trends survey closes at the end of August – just one week away. So why not sign up today and you will receive the intranet trends report for free (valued at $750 USD). Regards Andrew Wright, WIC Group Manager PS. Please email me any feedback you might have for this newsletter.
Contributor of the week
Simon Rawson Specialist in information management & ECM systems development Summary: Expert in the selection and application of content management, document management and workflow technologies.		Located: Melbourne, Australia Twitter: @lanceter2  Simon regularly provides thoughtful and intelligent contributions to member discussion topics. Here are a couple of examples: About intranet benefits SharePoint workflow
Other top weekly contributors
Peter Moroney Management Consultant, Melbourne, Australia	Gints Janelsins Knowledge Coordinator at Maersk Oil & Gas, Denmark		Nigel Williams Intranet Manager at Romec / Balfour Beatty Technical Services, UK
Discussion of the week	Blog post of the week		Event of the week
How do people produce corporate training videos that are published to the intranet?  Brian Coles	Manager’s guidebook to intranet redesign projects - free! Maish Nichani		Interaction 2011 London, 13th October Nigel Williams
Other discussions	Other blog posts		Other Events
Three types of intranets: publishing centric, knowledge-sharing centric & community centric. What is your experience and opinion? Gints Janelsins Does ANYONE have any guidelines or one-pager that holds content producers to standards before they simply "dump" content into your intranet? Corey Lyons What social media options are you using for internal corporate communications? Diane Raulston Card sorting exercises Kelli Ward	50 ways to a better intranet Andrew Wright Finding the right person within your organization Ira Dubenyuk What are the defining characteristics of Digital Era leaders? Courtney Hunt Five tips for building a truly useful intranet Elena Galitskaya		Are you exploiting all that SharePoint has to offer for your Intranet? Webinar, 7th September Annette Lenon Preview of the 2011 Content Management Practices Survey Webinar, 7th September Sharon Foley  Designing intranets that work London, 17th October James Robertson Social Workplace Conference 2011 London, 1st November Simona Sutaviciute