2:40pm Brad Walton is the Training and Recruitment Specialist at West Coast Savings Credit Union. He works with the department and branch managers to recruit and fulfill staff needs within the credit union. Over the past few weeks Brad has been working with Helen Whithall, the manager of their Main Street branch, to hire a …more

1:15pm Eva Collins is an HR Administrator at West Coast Savings Credit Union. Last week Eva met with Heather Jenkins, the HR Manager, to discuss setting up a Career, Health and Wellness area on The Buzz Intranet, with the goal of fostering a productive and rewarding work environment for all WCSCU employees. Eva is tasked …more

10:37am Brent Myers is a Member Services Rep and part of the Communications team at West Coast Savings Credit Union. Brent is often involved in content development for The Buzz intranet and is currently in a project update meeting that is coming to a close. “Great, well if no one has anything else to add, …more

9:23am Heather Jenkins is the HR Manager at West Coast Savings Credit Union. She is a key member of the intranet team and oversees 3 content managers for their intranet The Buzz. Heather is currently fiddling with her laptop in the 3rd floor conference room and mumbling under her breath. She checks the clock on …more

8:45am Kelly Bristow is running late for work. She is the Intranet Manager at West Coast Savings Credit Union (WCSCU) and is the primary administrator for their intranet site, The Buzz. Kelly has a 9:30 meet with her content managers to go over project status updates and at 8:45 she’s tapping her foot waiting on …more

Do you wonder how your intranet gets used on a daily basis? What information are users looking for? What tasks are being performed? How can you maximize the use of your intranet? The answers to these questions can help enhance user experience and improve the usability and effectiveness of your intranet. Our goals for the …more

Good intranets provide an invaluable resource to employees. A one-stop location to find everything from policies, guidelines, forms, departmental information, people search, calendar events and company news. But like all good intranets, over time they can get bogged down by the sheer volume of content distributed throughout the site. Sound familiar? It may be time …more

Over the past few years the microblogging platform Twitter has quickly gained traction in the social media sector with over 7 million users as of February 2009 (according to Nielsen Online). As Intranet Connections is entering our 2nd year on Twitter, we have had the privilege of reaching out to our customers via this popular …more

We have previously blogged about the role your intranet can play during an emergency, namely the H1N1 pandemic last year. This week Martin White, founder of Intranet Focus Ltd, wrote an article about intranet support for emergency planning in light of the volcanic ash from Iceland and air flight ban in Europe. Martin spoke to …more

“Knowing what your employees use the intranet for can be very useful in promoting important news.” Mike Ward from Anderson Hospital Mike Ward is intelligent and easy going, with a quick wit and a subtle sense of humor. A minute into the conversation he breaks out a small joke: until recently, they were a small …more