{"id":4894,"date":"2015-06-12T10:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/ways-to-improve-your-sharepoint-intranet\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T10:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:05:48","slug":"ways-to-improve-your-sharepoint-intranet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/ways-to-improve-your-sharepoint-intranet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ways to improve your SharePoint Intranet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWorld today is changing in companies using different path to get better communication with their staff, to boost productivity, improve the effectiveness of the strategy and business direction. <\/em>
\nSharePoint has become a reference’s tool regarding this point, however, many organizations still struggling to get the most out of the features it offers and find it difficult to increase adoption.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this article, we will see the key points to improve your SharePoint environnement.<\/em><\/address>\n

USE “FOLLOW” AND “SHARE”<\/h3>\n

SharePoint 2013 have some great features that are often overlooked, for example the “follow” and “share”features are simple ways to track which documents are interesting and share information with others.
\nFOLLOW: users are notified when a change is made to anything they are following whether conversations or documents.
\nSHARE: allows individuals to share relevant sites and documents with colleagues they feel will benefit from the content. Both these functionalities are ways for people in the organisation to take control of getting up to date information and distributing what they have learnt to others.<\/p>\n

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\nIt could be like a gossip.. ah ah .. Follow and Share!
\nMY SITE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The SharePoint \u2018My Site\u2019 can be compared to a user\u2019s Facebook page for the workplace. \u2018My Sites\u2019 serves as a user\u2019s personal page for sharing information about their skills, expertise and interests with others in the company. It also gives a user a central location to manage and store contacts, documents and anything they want to refer back to easily. Users can also personalise their \u2018My Sites\u2019 for an element of uniqueness. – See more at:http:\/\/www.pointbeyond.com\/2015\/02\/06\/five-great-ways-to-improve-usage-of-your-sharepoint-intranet#sthash.3DARs9wW.dpuf<\/a><\/div>\n
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The SharePoint \u2018My Site\u2019 can be compared to a user\u2019s Facebook page for the workplace. \u2018My Sites\u2019 serves as a user\u2019s personal page for sharing information about their skills, expertise and interests with others in the company. It also gives a user a central location to manage and store contacts, documents and anything they want to refer back to easily. Users can also personalise their \u2018My Sites\u2019 for an element of uniqueness. – See more at:http:\/\/www.pointbeyond.com\/2015\/02\/06\/five-great-ways-to-improve-usage-of-your-sharepoint-intranet#sthash.3DARs9wW.dpuf<\/a><\/div>\n

SharePoint “My Site” can be compared to a user\u2019s Facebook page for the workplace.
\nMY SITE: serves as a user\u2019s personal page for sharing information about their skills, expertise and interests with others in the company. It also gives a user a central location to manage and store contacts, documents and anything they want.
\nA “My Site” is personalizable in order to be unique for each user.<\/p>\n

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Share carefully, “My Site” is a place to share professional information!<\/em><\/p>\n

SHAREPOINT MOBILITY<\/h3>\n

In this mobile age it\u2019s fair to say the biggest improvement any organisation can make to improve usage of an intranet is to make it mobile compatible. Companies may want to consider rolling these features out slowly or even start with a test project in order to get feedback from business people.
\nThe key is to get involve the users themselves to step by step improve adoption.<\/p>\n

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Access the information and documents needed from everywhere!<\/em><\/p>\n

STEPS IMPORTANCE<\/h3>\n

Companies that get the SharePoint implementation right, often start simply, with many of the features disabled.
\nTaking time to do the things using the BEST PRACTICES in the right way, step after step will drive SharePoint implementation to success, leave the “bells-and-whistles” until the last.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n