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Table of Contents

Functionality: Home dashboard, Must reads

Framework: Site architecture

Initiative: Employee profile and photos

Best Practices: Content promotion, New hire onboarding, CEO/Leadership site 

Insights: Understanding analytics 

Bonus: Leveraging Intranet ambassadors

The next 30 days: Form connections

Functionality

Home dashboard

• Your home dashboard is one of the most important and frequently visited spaces on your intranet
• Find goals, designs, and content best practices

Must reads

• Important content can be marked as must read, requiring users confirm that they have read it
• Discover who can create must reads and how they are used

Apps launcher

• Add your organization's most commonly used applications directly to your Simpplr Home dashboard
• Discover how this Apps launcher can be customized

Feed

• Simpplr's feed ensures users connect with the most engaging and relevant content
• Understand the difference between the home feed and site feed

Framework

Establishing Intranet Management Framework

• Setting a framework for your internal processes will not only help maintain your intranet’s hygiene, but will also set the foundation for your intranet’s success

Site architecture

• Plan to roll out sites dedicated to department, location, team, interests, etc. 
  • • i.e., IT, HR, Comms, Marketing, San Francisco, New York City, CEO Corner, Employee Watercooler, Holiday Celebrations

Initiative

Site and content governance 

• Set the standard for sites and content to ensure ongoing success and consistency throughout your intranet

Employee profile and photo upload

• Promote usage of the mobile app 
• Start with leadership 
• Tie the intranet profile update to another mandated process (New Hire Onboarding, Performance Review, etc.) 
• Consider giving employees questions to help them fill out their About field

Best practices

New hire onboarding

• Best practices for providing a seamless new hire experience using Simpplr and ideas to help you best meet the needs of your organization's new hires

CEO/Leadership site

• Explore fundamental methods on how you can get your executives engaged with your intranet

Content promotion

• Beyond just publishing content to your Intranet, we also want to make sure users are aware of the content 
• This article provides ideas on how to best promote your content to increase engagement and viewership

Insights

Understanding analytics

• This goes hand-in-hand with the Analytics section from our previous Getting to Know Simpplr article
• We recommend you check in on your analytics at least once a month, if not weekly or daily

Bonus

Leverage Intranet Ambassadors 

• Create a group by sourcing all of your power users from Analytics > Social Interaction and/or People tabs 
• This group can help with creating/promoting content, making other users feel more comfortable with adopting the tool, and providing feedback for what is needed from the intranet

The next 30 days: Form connections

the next article, Your first 60 days with Simpplr: Forming connections, will guide you on:

• Creating special interest groups and social sites
  • What other ways could you bring colleagues together?
  • What else do you know about your colleagues?
  • Create fun ways to build relationships
• Continuing to monitor analytics
  • Number of people who uploaded profile photo and added birthday
  • Number of people who like, favorite, reply and comment
  • Number of people who complete About texts in their profiles
• Joining the Simpplr Office bi-weekly office hours