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Crowd-sourcing for Councils

March 22, 2011 Interact

Interact Intranet, version 4.8, continues to lead the field in intelligent intranet software – now with intelligent crowd-sourcing and peer-to-peer recognition features. What is Crowd Sourcing? Interact Answers is an innovative and unique crowd-sourcing feature which drives productivity and improves the collective knowledge of your organisation by allowing Council staff to post questions on the [...]

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It’s “Good to Talk” – say Councils

February 22, 2011 News

Having met with a number of Council recently there is a clear message that staying informed and having good internal collaboration tools is of paramount importance. What is also key is the need to have accurate information delivered to the desktop as it happens, which supports sharing and internal collaboration across the organisation. We’re also [...]

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How could Government benefit from a 4th Generation Intranet?

January 7, 2011 News

J2 Interactive and Interact are currently developing new ideas and new technology to help Local Government in their efforts to save money as budgets become squeezed. One area of identified savings has come from improving administration efficiencies. This includes areas such as Increasing Flexible working Making better use of internal resources for projects Looking at [...]

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Do Councils have an effective strategy for the future?

January 4, 2011 News

Councils are now faced with more to do…. and as such need to move faster, be really customer focused and lose some of the departmental silos that continue to create inefficiencies. The need for a shift in the way they do business is reflective of the more difficult times ahead. The core solution to this problem is to focus [...]

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Alterian CMC (Immediacy) version 6.3 available

December 23, 2010 News

Alterian has released the final version of Content Manager Corporate (Immediacy CMS). The updates are mainly focused on useful enhancements to the editor, updates to the programming API and support for the latest server operating systems. CMC now enters a support and maintenance lifecycle which sees support desk based support ending on 1st April 2015. [...]

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Collaboration & Councils

December 8, 2010 News

Research shows that a staggering 36% of an organisations overall performance is driven by its ability to collaborate & communicate effectively. Facilitating and encouraging internal collaboration can be the key to savings in time and effort. A number of Councils we have spoken to recently are still using outdated intranet systems, resulting in poor inter-departmental [...]

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Government call for more on-line services

November 23, 2010 News

Billions of pounds could be saved if the Government moved more services online, a report by the UK’s “digital champion” has said.Internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox called for a radical improvement in the number and quality of services being made available electronically.Shifting half of contacts to digital would slash the bill for taxpayers by £2.2 [...]

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Councils- Service & Accountability

November 9, 2010 News

Citizens are in charge of how they communicate & comment on how Councils spend their budget . They demand excellent customer service,  Local government is faced with a fresh set of challenges in overcoming legal hurdles, accessing the best data systems, and handing the potential press attention that public sector spend inevitably attracts. Social media monitoring [...]

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Power to the people-new government website

November 8, 2010 News

David Cameron has launched a website where government departments’ business plans set out their policies and timetables for achieving them.The prime minister says the website, which will allow people to check on the progress of policies on a month-by-month basis, is a “complete revolution” in how the government operates. This is the first step in [...]

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Why Council intranets are a vital communication tool

November 3, 2010 News

Most Councils are reliant on their Intranet to provide a powerful, efficient and cost-effective means of providing up to the minute information to staff and enabling them to communicate more easily with each other. Typically they are used to distribute information, provide a method of posting shared documents and enable fast easy access to applications. [...]

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