Intranets and Talking Heads Videos
We have many clients who enthusiastically embrace blogs and new media, which of course is engaging and excellent.
However with these clients I have seen a tendency to launch similar departmental intranet home pages, each of which has a video introduction to the department from the relevant VP or member of the management team, and the blog – along with of course rich and relevant departmental information – documents, self service, general contextual information and e-forms.
These can be very powerful templates – but what worries me is that talking head video from the VP is only interesting the first, or at best second, time you hear it. Therafter it can be very irritating, however relevant the message.
What I like is a component that checks if a user has seen that video, and if so switches it out for another relevant content or RSS feed that fits well with the design.
Intranets should be multimedia and rich – but they absolutely must be fresh!
We’ve been thinking of using a similar concept for induction/new starters so users who have been with the company a short while get to see time released content based on the life cycle of their role in the business.
I usually don’t post on Blogs but ya forced me to, great info.. excellent! …