The Best Employee Communications Tool You Already Own But Aren't Using

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9TH I 2:00 -3:00 PM EST

THE BEST EMPLOYEECOMMUNICATIONS TOOLYOU ALREADY OWNBUT AREN’T USING

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Presenting Today:

Doug ShonrockTechnology Solutions Director

Pablo QueiroloTech Master and Sharepoint Expert


INFORMATION IS KING


TimeUsing internal resources can put a drain on IT departments or get pushed down the priority list, making it difficult to get things done in a timely manner.



Internal IT resources may push to get something generated that is not as polished in terms of quality. It would have a look that says it was generated by IT.

Branding

CostIf you decide to use an outside partner, the costs go up. Quality will be better, but there is no ‘buy-in’ from internal resources and they will be less enthusiastic to support it.


The SolutionUse a flexible platform that allows for branded and interactive content to be pushed to internal or external websites that can be done quickly and managed easily.


Internal brand campaign launch Employee referral program

Department blog or portalCorporate responsibility programs

Internal training efforts

Events promotion and events calendarsReward and recognition programs

Onboarding


Subset of Sharepoint features designed for Intranets or public websites

Focus on publishing/workflow tools

Most flexible look/feel


Managed by existing IT team

No licensing costs

Easy to edit and maintain content


Works with modern browsers and mobile devices

Inexpensive to build

Sites are reusable!


BLOG SITE

Enhance the way employees communicate and collaborate with each other.

PUBLISHING SITE SMART SEARCH


• Lets user easily create new posts. • Posts can be organized into one or more

categories. • It provides out-of-the-box social

features like sharing, commenting and a rating system.

• Simple approval workflow for comments.


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•A site where authoring and publishing are more structured and content management policies are enforced.

•Several page layouts can be defined so pages share a common structure and data.

•A publishing process is in place—content can be created in draft mode, and it will only be visible to the author and content approvers until it is published.

•Enables a global navigation common to all the publishing sites in the system.






• Searching in SharePoint is simple, as without any kind of extra configuration, it will recognize the content structure and its metadata and allow users to filter the results accordingly.

• When SharePoint indexes the content for searching, it also minds the permissions, so users will only see in the results information they have access to.

• Search results look & feel is highly customizable, so users can identify the type of content without having to open the link.

• The out-of-the-box search webparts can be used to aggregate content from several sources in a single location.


•Development and deployments have been improved in SharePoint 2013.

•The deployment process for look & feel usually takes only a few minutes and is less error prone than older versions.


•Sharepoint instance in the cloud, no infrastructure maintenance costs.

•Provides online document collaboration through office web apps.



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The Best Employee Communications Tool You Already Own But Aren't Using