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What is an Independent Intranet?
There are several kinds of intranet platforms, making it difficult for some organizations to choose which one to implement.
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Intro
Independent intranets have built-in tools and features that don’t depend on any platform like Google or Microsoft. Some examples of independent intranet platforms are Unily, Interact, and LumApps. Many organizations are impressed with the features and products of independent intranets because they help improve internal communication and collaboration among team members.
The downsides of using independent intranets are costly, challenging to use, unreliable when synchronising data from your workspace platform, and implementation takes too much time.
Luckily, you have the alternative to use Steegle which runs on Google Sites. Although Google-based intranets are not independent intranets, Steegle has developed unique tools that make a Google-based intranet functional like an independent intranet.
Building Powerful Intranets with Steegle
Excellent User Experience
Google Sites only offer 6 basic themes at the moment. Because of this, many organizations turn away from using Google Sites in building their intranets. That’s why we came up with a solution. Steegle offers tailored and flexible branding and an excellent user experience across devices. We have a variety of out-of-the-box templates for your Google Sites intranet. Whilst, with some independent intranet platforms, you need to stick to a standard template, leaving you little room for customization.
If you want themes tailored to your organization’s needs and branding, we can help you design and develop a new theme that can only be used by your website.
Different templates developed and designed by Steegle
Company-Wide Newsfeed
An intranet is not complete without a functional news feature. Google Sites doesn’t offer any kind of news or announcement tool, which means there’s no way for you to highlight news snippets on your website. That’s why Steegle developed a scrollable and filterable news gadget for Google Sites. Our news gadget can display:
Snippets and headlines with a link
Metadata including tags, source, author, and date published
News from multiple RSS feeds
Thumbnail or background cover photo
A screenshot of the newsfeed from Steegle.One Intranet
Intuitive Search Capabilities
One of the reasons why organizations invest in intranets is to make their employees’ day-to-day tasks easier and faster. When users can instantly search for the information they need, it boosts productivity. Google Sites has a search function that allows users to search for page content.
People Directory and Org Charts
The people directory is the heart and an essential part of your company intranet. A people directory stores the name, contact information, department, and job title of employees in the organization. It may also include much more interesting feels to make your Internet into a people database. For example, you can include:
Skills
Sector specific qualifications
Education Institute
Hobbies and interests
Offices locations
Working Hours
Teams membership
Affinity groups.
Steegle People is a tool a modern people directory that allows you to search for users and automate org charts. This tool integrates with your Google contacts web app into your intranet or employee experience platform (EXP) to sort and find each user’s reporting relationships in the management structure.
A screenshot of the employee directory from Steegle.One Intranet
Employee Service Tools
Another important feature of an intranet is having employee service tools such as forms, employee recognition, training, and a virtual suggestion box. With the help of our unique tools, your Google Sites intranet can have these features just like in any independent intranet.
Steegle Heroes for Google Workspace is an employee recognition software built by Steegle. It allows you to recognize individuals or team members and link them to their employee profiles. You can also award badges to users or display photos highlighting their achievements.
It is also important to value your employees’ suggestions and opinions. The best and easiest way to do this is by implementing a virtual suggestion box. Check out the Benefits of a Suggestion Box in the Workplace.
Screenshots of the employee service tools from Steegle.One Intranet
Article by Maria Gabrielle