Your Intranet Needs a Reboot Now More Than Ever

A decade ago, remote working was rare. Many organizations believed that remote workers were harder to manage, less effective, and too easily ...

Jake Weaver

Aug 26

Why Organizations Are Doubling Down on Internal & Crisis Communications Right Now

Open, clear, concise communication is integral to the smooth functioning of an organization at the best of times, but never more so than during times ...

Luke Warren

May 19

One Key Lesson From The COVID-19 Crisis

A conversation between Jake Weaver, CEO of Codesigned, and Alison Davis, CEO of Davis & Company.

Codesigned

Apr 27

SharePoint Framework (SPFx): Microsoft BOT framework integration

Download / Source code SPFX web part : https://github.com/get2pallav/BT/tree/develop

Pallav Mathur

Nov 19

5 Signs of Poor User Experience Design

UX (User Experience) design is one of the most important elements of a site. Essentially, sites with good UX design are intuitive and usable while ...

Aaron Bandoly

Oct 23

Case Study: How IntranetPro Works for Retail [Free Download]

The Problem of Retail Communication Retail is one of the most challenging environments for internal communications and employee engagement. Not only ...

David Jones

Sep 12

What is an Intranet Accelerator?

The concept of SharePoint combined with the idea of an intranet is nothing new. This idea, though, typically goes hand-in-hand with customizations ...

Jake Weaver

Jul 24

Facilitating Open Communication, Culture and Dialogue between Executives & Employees

Leadership teams often feel isolated and somewhat removed from the day-to-day activities and interactions at their organization. At one time, ...

Jake Weaver

Jan 29

Keeping Data Secure in Office 365

With cyber breaches on the rise, organizations must remain ever vigilant in guarding against them, especially when considering that the average ...

Aaron Bandoly

Jan 4

Everything you need to know about SharePoint Versions

The SharePoint landscape has evolved dramatically since SharePoint's inception 17 years ago. And while there have been improvements every year since ...

Aaron Bandoly

Dec 4

5 Questions to Ask When Looking for an Intranet Solution

When your organization is deciding to purchase a new intranet, there are countless factors to consider. A few obvious ones like how long it would be ...

Andrew Brotherton

Nov 29

6 Ways to Clean Up the Office Inbox

Email was once the great facilitator of business and productivity. Now we spend 17 hours a week just handling the messages we receive. That's 42.5% ...

Aaron Bandoly

Nov 16

The Importance of Branding your Intranet

Branding is a part of almost everything a company does. Even when the efforts are only seen by internal employees, brand is a must. Intranets are ...

Aaron Bandoly

Oct 30

The Importance of Quality UX Design

For an intranet to be effective, it needs a solid UX design. It's as simple as that. If a site's UX design isn't adequate, both the site and its ...

Aaron Bandoly

Oct 9

3 Dangers of a Stale Intranet

An intranet can be an effective platform to help streamline organizational effectiveness. By enabling communication and document management, users ...

Kyle O'Neal

Oct 3

Keeping Your Office Connected with Your Intranet

As the typical norms of where and how people work shifts from a standard 9-5 in-office day to more remote, flexible hours, it is critical that ...

Aaron Bandoly

Sep 19

IntranetPro Security

One of the biggest questions we get from customers is "Why SharePoint?" Why would we spend extra time developing an intranet on top of SharePoint ...

Julia Nikolich

Sep 7

Before You Start Looking for a New SharePoint Intranet

The decision has been made, your company will be getting a new intranet. And leadership made you responsible for finding options and researching ...

Andrew Brotherton

Aug 21

4 Steps to Convince Your Team its Time for a New Intranet

Most knowledge workers interact with their company intranet every day. But when your organization has a poor-quality intranet, that easily becomes ...

Kyle O'Neal

Aug 16

Is Your Intranet Hurting Your Company?

Everyone agrees stagnation is harmful. But rarely do managers or others think about that fact in relation to their intranet. And that's a mistake.

Aaron Bandoly

Aug 14

Encourage Collaboration on Your Intranet : Department and Community Sites

Collaboration Across Departments Keeping your departments isolated can lead to a silo mentality in your organization. A silo mentality occurs when ...

Mandy Davis

Mar 28

Targeted News : Relevant and Engaging Content on Your Communications Intranet

IntranetPro is an enterprise intranet solution that employees want to use. Because most organizations have similar core requirements, IntranetPro ...

Mandy Davis

Mar 28

Discover the Intranet Employee Directory with a Difference.

Built-in Intranet Employee Directory to Connect Employees Every been introduced to a co-worker and realized later on, after bumping into them again, ...

Mandy Davis

Mar 26

Experience Powerful Intranet Analytics from IntranetPro

Quantifying employee engagement is easy with intranet analytics tools in IntranetPro. In order to improve employee engagement, you have to be able to ...

Luke Warren

Mar 22

IntranetPro's Customizable SharePoint Intranet Solution

Upon following sites, user's homepages will house a unique personal experience. IntranetPro curates documents, news, and events from employee's ...

Luke Warren

Mar 20

Engaging Photo & Video Galleries on your Social Intranet.

Gallery Updates from IntranetPro Social Intranet Make Media Management Easy With the photos and videos tabs in IntranetPro, you can manage your photo ...

Jordan Weaver

Mar 20

4 Tips for Creating Engaging Intranet Content

Do you want your intranet to be successful?

Kylie Weaver

Dec 12

3 Ways to Improve Brand Awareness with Your Intranet

Everyone has a brand. Organizations of all sizes across all industries have some semblance of a brand. Beyond a logo, branding represents an ...

Kylie Weaver

Jul 12

3 Performance Review Methods to Avoid

Ah, performance reviews. The parent-teacher conferences of the working adult world. Only instead of your mom learning that you haven't turned in your ...

Jessica Weaver

Jun 20

What WannaCry Means to Your Company

Earlier this month, the WannaCry ransomware took the world by storm. And not in the fun "Beatle-mania" way, in more a "Mount Vesuvius" way. What is ...

Julia Nikolich

May 31

How Governance Can Save Your Intranet

Once, we were working with a fairly small company with an equally small intranet. While going through their sub-sites and libraries, we found that ...

Julia Nikolich

May 24

5 tips for SharePoint information architecture success

Information Architecture, or IA, is the backbone of your SharePoint site. It determines how and where content is stored in an intranet. When an ...

Kyle O'Neal

Apr 4

7 Warning Signs of Employee Disengagement

How can you tell if employees aren't satisfied at work? Disengaged employees don't usually show up to work in an "I hate my company" t-shirt. They ...

Julia Nikolich

Mar 15

5 Tips for Creating Your SharePoint Permissions Strategy

SharePoint groups and permission levels are like chainsaws; they're very powerful tools. They shouldn't be used without a plan or reason. Just like a ...

Anna Lindgren

Mar 15

Understanding SharePoint Permissions Inheritance

Permission inheritance is a more complicated aspect of SharePoint permissions. It can be very helpful if used correctly. In this post, I'll detail ...

Kyle O'Neal

Mar 10

Increasing Employee Engagement with Your Intranet

If you've read my previous posts about employee engagement, you probably don’t want to sit through anymore organizational behavior lectures, no ...

Julia Nikolich

Mar 10

Introduction to Information Architecture in SharePoint

What is Information Architecture (IA)? In short, it's how information is organized. But what does that mean? Well, say you got the opportunity to ...

Julia Nikolich

Mar 1

4 Signs You Have a Stale Intranet

Intranets are useful. More specifically, good intranets are useful. Bad intranets frustrate employees, especially when they still have to rely on ...

Kyle O'Neal

Feb 23

Creating Custom SharePoint Groups and Permissions

You need SharePoint groups and permission levels to run your site effectively. They keep your site hierarchy in order and running smoothly. ...

Kyle O'Neal

Feb 23

What Influences Employee Engagement?

Last time, we discussed the importance of employee engagement. If you missed it, go ahead and check it out. However, recognizing the effects of ...

Julia Nikolich

Feb 21

Why Employee Engagement Matters

Since its introduction in 1993, "employee engagement" has been a hot buzzword in the business world. When companies offer new products, management ...

Julia Nikolich

Feb 9

Working with SharePoint Groups & Permissions

If you want to have a secure SharePoint intranet, you need to understand SharePoint groups and permission levels. Managing your groups and ...

Kyle O'Neal

Feb 9

5 Tips for Improving Employee Engagement

Engagement is the combination of being both happy and motivated at work—the feeling that you're truly doing what you love. Although engagement is a ...

Jordan Weaver

Nov 17

5 Tips to Keep Your Software from Becoming Outdated

Businesses can't afford to fall behind with technology if they want to keep their customers. Unfortunately, it can be time-consuming and expensive ...

Kylie Weaver

Oct 26

New SharePoint and Office 365 Features Introduced at Microsoft Ignite

Microsoft Ignite, the largest information technology conference in the world, and Microsoft’s stage to announce all of their new initiatives, ...

Julia Nikolich

Oct 12

5 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement

High employee engagement and a strong company culture translate into bottom line benefits. Engaged employees are more productive, stay with the ...

Kylie Weaver

Oct 7

How Can I Use SharePoint?

If you've done any research into selecting an intranet for your company, you've undoubtedly heard of Microsoft SharePoint, which has been around in ...

Jordan Weaver

Sep 30

4 Tips for a Successful SharePoint Implementation

SharePoint has been widely used by large enterprises for a while now, and it's gotten easier for organizations of all sizes to implement SharePoint, ...

Trey Galletly

Sep 15

5 Ways an Intranet Can Improve Internal Communication

A user-friendly intranet can be a powerful tool for facilitating effective workplace communication and helping to increase employee engagement. In ...

Kylie Weaver

Sep 8

Why User Experience Design Matters for Your Intranet

Companies of all sizes often suffer from miscommunication - between executives and middle-management, between departments, between locations, etc. ...

Jordan Weaver

Sep 1

How Employee Engagement & Communications Impacts Profits

Quite often organizations large and small have dedicated personnel that are tasked with disseminating and streamlining information for the C-Suite or ...

David Jones

Aug 24

5 Reasons Why SharePoint is the Best Intranet Platform

Dozens of companies provide corporate intranet software, but none of them have managed to exceed the robust capabilities of SharePoint. Challenges ...

Trey Galletly

Aug 19

Codesigned Recognized in 2016 Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies

Inc. Magazine Unveils 35th Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies — the Inc. 5000 NEW YORK, August 17, 2016 – Inc. magazine today ...

Kylie Weaver

Aug 17

5 Steps to Drive Intranet User Adoption

A successful intranet can serve as a centralized portal for internal communication, employee engagement, and business processes, but it won't be ...

Jordan Weaver

Aug 11

Corporate Intranet Design Trends

A well designed corporate intranet helps increase productivity and communication among employees. The process of designing a great intranet starts ...

Alice Zheng

Aug 3

The Importance of an Intranet in Business

Think for a moment of a manufacturer, let's pretend it is a bicycle manufacturer, but any manufacturer would do. The sales department gets a request ...

Julia Nikolich

Jul 27

How to Create a Custom SharePoint Search Box with jQuery

Have you had the task of branding an out of the box SharePoint search box? It’s not the hardest of things to do, but it can still be a bit of a ...

Brian Aydelotte

Jul 21

5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a SharePoint Consulting Company

SharePoint is at the heart of many businesses today, with an estimated 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies using Microsoft's collaboration platform ...

Trey Galletly

Jul 19

How to Measure the ROI of Your Intranet

Measuring the investment needed to upgrade or develop a new intranet portal is not an exact science. Intranets can be expensive, especially intranets ...

Joelle Farley

Jul 14

Advantages of Using SharePoint for Content Management

Imagine this scenario: You’ve come up with an idea you are convinced will help your company. You get excited -- why didn't anyone think of this ...

Jordan Weaver

Jul 12

4 Reasons Why No One Uses Your Company Intranet

If your organization has an intranet, but no one in your company is using it, you are missing out on a chance to really improve internal ...

Diana Winecoff

Jul 7

What You Need to Know about SharePoint 2016

Microsoft's release of SharePoint Server 2016 in May of this year has provoked significant excitement in the world of enterprise intranets, ...

Jordan Weaver

Jun 28

How to Use Icon Fonts in SharePoint

Icon fonts are some of the best and easiest ways to add some visual aid to your SharePoint websites. They add increased flexibility with your design ...

Brian Aydelotte

Jun 22

4 Tips for Effective Workplace Communication

Communication in the workplace is one of the most important factors in running a successful organization. Good communication has the power to ...

Kylie Weaver

Jun 14

SharePoint Server vs. SharePoint Online

SharePoint provides organizations with a powerful tool that can be used as an intranet, content management system, project management portal, and ...

Trey Galletly

Jun 8

How to Improve Business Processes with SharePoint

When an organization begins a SharePoint project, they tend to initially focus on document management. The majority of SharePoint project budgets ...

Joelle Farley

Jun 1

5 Important Types of Collaboration Tools for Business

While establishing a culture of collaboration isn't easy, it can be an invaluable tool for your businesses' bottom line. Inc. writes that better ...

Kylie Weaver

May 27

How to Style SharePoint 2013 Web Part Titles

Here is a quick and simple trick on how to get some customization out of your web part titles. The out-of-the-box styling of SharePoint web part ...

Brian Aydelotte

May 24

6 Benefits of Investing in a New Intranet

Inc.com writes that the single most common management mistake is failing to encourage communication between employees and staff. Communication ...

Jordan Weaver

May 20

3 Tips to Organize Your Intranet

Organizations may find themselves in a situation where a redesign of their intranet is desperately needed. However, for budgetary reasons, migrating ...

Joelle Farley

May 17

5 SharePoint Security Best Practices

SharePoint is an incredibly useful tool for businesses, as it allows employees in all departments to work together effectively. However, using ...

Jordan Weaver

May 13

How to Get the Most Out of Your SharePoint Site

If we know anything about SharePoint, we know that there is a lot to learn. Most business users receive just enough training to get a solid grasp on ...

Joelle Farley

May 10

7 Reasons Employees Won't Use Your New Software

Technology initiatives carry a great deal of risk, and even the best-run project can sink if your users are resistant to adoption. Whether you're ...

Trey Galletly

May 5

How to Add Breadcrumb Navigation to SharePoint 2013 Page Layouts

I’ve recently discovered that it is more useful to include breadcrumb navigation inside of certain page layouts instead of housing it inside of ...

Brian Aydelotte

May 3

SharePoint Governance Best Practices

If your organization has taken the time to formulate a governance team, and you have started working on a plan for governing your recent SharePoint ...

Joelle Farley

Apr 29

4 Ways to Improve Internal Brand Awareness

Usually, when you think of marketing, you probably think of how to market to your customers. Selling to customers is important, of course, but ...

Kylie Weaver

Apr 26

Common SharePoint Mistakes and How to Fix Them

As SharePoint consultants we frequently see the same mistakes being made over and over again. We have even seen some of these mistakes lead to costly ...

Joelle Farley

Apr 21

How to Brand SharePoint Navigation

SharePoint is a great tool with seemingly endless uses. From intranet solution to public facing website, SharePoint has many functions and is used ...

Brian Aydelotte

Apr 19

How To Create a Better User Experience on Your Intranet

Are you looking to improve your intranet's user experience? There are a few basic elements that you can pay extra attention to that will drastically ...

Jordan Weaver

Apr 14

Excalibur Award Winners

Codesigned is honored to receive the 2015 Excalibur Award, presented by the Technology Association of Georgia. TAG, the state’s leading technology ...

Kylie Weaver

Nov 18

Codesigned Named a Finalist for 2015 Excalibur Awards

ATLANTA (September 22nd, 2015) – The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the state’s leading association dedicated to the promotion and economic ...

Kylie Weaver

Sep 22

4 Ways a High-Quality Intranet Can Help Your Company

Miss the announcement about the office party? That email about benefit enrollment get buried in your inbox? It’s no secret that organizational ...

Trey Galletly

Aug 20

3 Social Intranet Features That Promote User Engagement

Too often we hear from our clients about past intranet solutions that none of their employees wanted to use. Intranet designers should focus on ...

Jordan Weaver

Jul 17

What SharePoint Alternatives Are Missing

As SharePoint consultants, we’ve heard a lot of criticism about the platform. One of the prevailing points SharePoint alternatives like to make is ...

Kate Arora

May 1

How to Create a Custom Error Page for SharePoint

Branding your digital workspace is essential to creating a company identity. This includes not just the functional pages, but even the error pages. ...

Luke Warren

Mar 20

3 Design Tips to Boost Employee Engagement

When organizations have trouble with intranet user adoption, the underlying culprit often has to do with issues surrounding the user experience. When ...

Zachary Wall

Jan 29

Why is Intranet Essential for Communication

As communications and marketing professionals, there are few things more important than your brands. The biggest struggle then becomes getting that ...

Kate Arora

Jan 23

An Intranet Solution to Help Content Owners

I have been in the SharePoint space for a long time. I have seen a lot of things and worked on my fair share of projects since the 2003 version of ...

Jake Weaver

Jan 21

How to Maximize Your SharePoint Investment

There is no beating around the bush here, SharePoint is not cheap. There are some costs that everyone is aware of for sure. These include licensing, ...

Dave Kuehling

Nov 18

How to Use Active Directory in Your SharePoint Site

Active Directory is one of those technologies that the business really has no real visibility into. It's like the man behind the curtain, ...

Dave Kuehling

Nov 6

The Importance of a Strong Relationship Between IT and The Business

The business side of the house can sometimes have a tenuous relationship with IT, be it real or perceived. At its core, the most common issue we hear ...

Dave Kuehling

Nov 3

How To Set Up Task Delegation in Nintex Workflow

Everyone needs time away from the office, whether that be for a vacation, doctor’s appointment, illness, or holiday; however, organizations must ...

Jake Weaver

Aug 19

How to Ensure a Successful SharePoint Deployment

Many organizations see SharePoint as an answer to many issues they face. This can range from just turning on search and expecting to have good search ...

Dave Kuehling

Aug 13

Interview with a Designer

We released the redesigned Codesigned.com almost two months ago, and we've received a lot of really great support from our friends and SharePoint ...

Kate Arora

Jul 1

Codesigned + Trees Atlanta

In honor of World Environment Day, we're talking about trees! What does a SharePoint company have to say about the environment? Well, since you ...

Kate Arora

Jun 5

Jake Weaver for Business Person of the Year!

The Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Atlanta Business Chronicle have honored and recognized entrepreneurship in the Atlanta community for more than 28 ...

Kate Arora

Jun 3

Engaging 2014

Welcome to Codesigned's premiere blog post! We're thrilled to finally be joining the rest of the best companies out there with great SharePoint ...

Kate Arora

Mar 18

2 Nintex Errors and How to Fix Them

When working a few client projects, certain errors pop up, and more than once. They aren't terribly hard to fix, but there are specific steps to fix ...

Joe Rattz

Mar 11

Innovations in Healthcare Technology

ATLANTA— WellStar Health System's long-time partnership with technology services company Codesigned has resulted in ground-breaking developments for ...

Kate Arora

Dec 10