Smaller group, hands-on, and interactive – the workshop sessions allow you to focus on trending topics and share challenges with fellow attendees and your workshop leaders. Attend to get a solid foundation of strategies, trends and how to’s before the start of the main, two-day conference – and, find out why the workshops are consistently rated as very valuable time spent!
Position your intranet as the virtual gathering place for communication, content and collaboration to engage your workforce
Uncover top intranet design and content steps to invigorate your intranet
Outline and deploy a survey to seek responses to better serve your workforce
Michelle Esposito, Founder and Senior Partner
Rogue Services and Solutions
Did you know that the 4th most popular productivity app in the iOS app store is Outlook by Microsoft? Microsoft has invested heavily in building first-class mobile apps that make you more productive on the go.
How does mobile access to the corporate intranet help users be more productive? They no longer have to access the intranet via a tablet or laptop/desktop computer to have a great user experience. They can more easily access the information you, as the internal communications professional, have published.
As an internal communications professional, learn how you can get the most out of that Instagram Machine in your pocket at this workshop, including:
Engage with end users to meet them where they are – on their phones
Absorb the information published in multichannel communication
Take advantage of improvements in the SharePoint mobile experience
Overcome the challenge of making intranet content available everywhere on any device with a rewarding mobile experience
Michael Blumenthal, Office 365 MVP, Technical Solution Evangelist
PSC Group
Chris Johnson, Office 365 MVP, Director of Business Solutions
PSC Group
Assess and prioritize your intranet’s features and functionality
Identify conditions and measures for success
Meghan Armstrong, User Experience Consultant
Habanero Consulting Group
Brian Edwards, Director, Products and Services
Habanero Consulting Group
With senior leadership and IT onboard with your vision of a digital workplace – and development underway – now is the time to turn your focus to content. Whether you migrate or start from scratch with content, starting early and having a plan is crucial. Otherwise, you’ll be putting junk words into your shiny new vessel.
In this interactive workshop you’ll dive deep into content challenges and best practices, teaching you how to:
Stacy Wilson, President, ABC
Eloquor Consulting, Inc.
Sign in, pick up your materials, and enjoy a continental breakfast before we start the day.
Get to know your fellow conference attendees in this fun and fast-paced forum. Take this time to learn your fellow peer’s biggest intranet challenges and a few fun facts!
The Coca-Cola Company employs more than 100,000 people and operates in more than 200 countries. At a time of rapid change both in the marketplace and the company’s structure, there was a pressing need to communicate with the company’s global workforce about strategic decisions, leadership changes, global marketing campaigns, efforts to improve the day-to-day employee experience, and a host of other challenges.
Coca-Cola Connect launched in June 2015 to serve as the company’s internal hub for news. Offering “real talk for real people” and “news you can use,” a network of editors producing stories designed to inform and engage employees.
Discuss the lessons learned from the first year of Connect and learn how to utilize your intranet to empower employees, including how to:
Focus on priorities to best deliver news to employees
Ignite interest company-wide with important topics
Make internal communications more relatable, casual and authentic
Overcome challenges to prioritize and develop a consistent editorial voice across multiple geographies and business units
Create engaging, personal and non-intimidating town halls with executives
Jeremiah McWilliams
Director, Employee and Leadership Communications
The Coca-Cola Company
Metrics are a powerful tool for communicators. They tell us where we stand with causation, trends, and projections. But, “What should we measure?” is a simple question that can be surprisingly difficult to answer. And, “How do we measure it?” is a seemingly complex question that can often be answered with SharePoint.
See first-hand how HealthLOGIC Partners worked alongside Rogue Services and Solutions to decide what information to collect, where to collect it, and how to use data to make better business decisions. You will learn from HLP’s experience how to: Gain insight on ways to measure success and make data work for you, including how to:
Michelle Esposito
Founder and Senior Partner
Rogue Services and Solutions
Val Generes
Managing Partner
HealthLOGIC Partners
Reservations have been made at a number of local restaurants. Please sign up at the registration table if you are interested in dining out with a group.
**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.
Would you define your intranet as a hub of useful information where employees actively work? Or, would you define your intranet as one more tool you have to manage and your employees have to use?
This interactive tech talk will outline the principles of what makes a modern, engaging, informative intranet.
From creating a roadmap to ensuring your intranet remains an informative, useful tool long after launch, you will be provided with the necessary information to help you:
Tackle employee engagement issues and encourage users to read your messages
Cut down the time spent on intranet projects with time-saving tips
Make your intranet available everywhere
Use out-of-the-box features of modern collaborative platforms
Peter Walke
Account Technology Strategist
Microsoft Corporation
How do you make sure that your employees know what tools are available to them and what the tools are good for? Communicating by email is no longer enough. If you wish to succeed in driving adoption of new ways to work, you have to start by informing and inspiring.
Hear how Lake County mapped out an IT Fair to educate employees about their digital workforce and its capabilities.
From this session you’ll be provided with your very own IT Fair Task List and communication templates to launch your own event at your company, including learning how to:
Organize logistics around bringing your IT department and communication departments together
Map out the key learnings employees need to understand to maximize the use of your digital workplace
Measure success
Steve Smith
IT Project Manager,
Lake County, Illinois
Michael Blumenthal
Technical Solution Evangelist, Office 365 MVP
PSC Group
Chris Johnson
Director of Business Solutions, Office 365 MVP
PSC Group
You will be divided into groups to discuss with your fellow attendees the specific challenges you may be experiencing within your organization and come up with a strategic plan to solve it.
Take this time to receive solutions from your peers as well as provide tips & tricks of your own.
Scott Yokiel
Service Lead for Create & Collaborate
CargillCommunicators and IT professionals must work together on collaborative projects to do their jobs well.
This expert panel will share tips and tactics to build better relations with your IT counterparts, including:
Sumathi Jayakumar, Mayo Clinic, Intranet UX Manager
Steve Smith, Lake County Illinois, IT Project Manager
Chris Johnson, PSC Group, Director, Business Solutions, Office 365 MVP
Peter Walke, Microsoft Corporation, Technology Strategist
Enjoy complimentary drinks on us as you continue the conversation with your peers.
Please wear your name badge.
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**Everyone is on their own financially.
It’s every communicator’s challenge to engage employees with outdated portals and restricted options to populate new content and video. Take an inside look at how communicators at Northwestern Mutual decided to make a drastic change to reinvent their intranet through a massive overhaul while balancing the communication needs of four generations of 7,000 employees and contractors.
This session will provide you with guidance on how to take your current intranet and launch a digital workplace where workers know they can find the latest headline news that matters to them, including how to:
Engage employees through your digital workplace by providing them with daily headline news, videos, and social media
Transfer content from old to new intranet with detailed plan
Tackle funding challenges with the support from multiple departments
Reinvent your intranet as a one-stop-shop by bringing together applications, websites and devices
Use personalization to reduce the flow of messages to employees
Develop a targeted area on your intranet for leader news
Encourage your employees to develop content through curation roles
Dee Johnson
Assistant Director, Digital Workplace
Northwestern Mutual
Sue Weinlein
Senior Digital Workplace Consultant
Northwestern MutualOxfam is a global organization working to end of hunger, poverty and injustice. It is a confederation of 17 member organizations, working in more than 90 countries with over 10,000 employees and works with thousands of partner organizations around the globe.
Recently, Oxfam has embarked on global change process to integrate systems, people and platforms, including the development of a new global intranet and enterprise social platform: Facebook at Work
From idea to design to implementation, see first-hand the beginning stages of roll-out to engage a worldwide staff with limited resources.
Learn how you too can inspire a worldwide staff on a shoe-string budget, including how to:
Create a shared vision for your digital workspace
Execute ideas from design to beginning stages of your intranet roll out
Reinforce your mission and culture
Sarah Livingston
Internal Communications Lead
Oxfam AmericaEnjoy complimentary coffee, tea, and other refreshments as you network with your peers.
Mayo Clinic employs more than 60,000 employees in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale, Ariz. So how does this large health care provider manage to engage thousands of health care communicators, physicians, nurses and other health care workers on its intranet?
The team developed Employee Personas that represent a group of people who work in the health care field. The personas help project members understand and empathize with user groups they may never see face to face.
Following a look at these personas, find out why institutional personas are important in any organization and how using them can help you save time and money, including:
How personas help the team understand and empathize with users
Steps to create institutional personas and how to use them
Challenges to prepare for during the creation and maintenance process of the institutional personas
Best practices of persona validation process and governance
How personas help content owners create quality content to drive user adoption
After winning the Nielsen Norman Top 10 Intranets, the team at XL Catlin continued to reach out to users to learn how to make improvements to the PEN. While the winning interface was progressive, it wasn’t meeting user expectations for findability. With support from Eloquor Consulting, XL Catlin conducted user and usability research and redesigned the PEN to speak directly to user comments.
See the before and after and learn how they made decisions based on the research. See too how they used a similar approach to improve the HR site, which launched at the same time.
Stacy WilsonReservations have been made at a number of local restaurants. Please sign up at the registration table if you are interested in dining out with a group.
**Everyone is financially responsible for their own lunch.
Senior Communication Specialist
Southwest Airlines
Enjoy a variety of snacks and beverages as you network with your peers.
Every company sets out to implement SharePoint the “right way” but before you know it, you find yourself in the weeds. This discussion will present the common challenges SharePoint users face and how to successfully implement solutions that will put SharePoint into action.
Gain helpful tips and practical advice on how to manage your SharePoint day-to-day needs more efficiently in addition to building a strategy and roadmap, all the while making progress. Included are how to:
Shila Nagarsenker
SharePoint Collaboration Manager
CCC Information Services