Ellen's Intranet Promotion Videos

I have seen some bizarre intranet promotion videos, and this one certainly ranks with the most bizarre!

This is the launch of the intranet for a jail, or for the Ministry of Justice in the Netherlands. In any case, there are many references to prison life: cells, barbed wire, Jailhouse Rock and more.
It takes some time to get going, but then you see an intranet called C-site, at around 2.05 minutes. It is colourful and everything is called C: C-Media, C-Tips, C-whatever. If your site is C, you do not have to call everything C!
It does not look very business-like, it appears to be more amusement than anything else. Lunch walks, books or films or series you can recommend, and some ICT-trainings.
At 2.30 minutes you switch to a pastry chef, who spends 1.30 minutes creating lovely pies and cakes. I guess this is to celebrate the launch?

Anyway, a strange video.

Uploaded December 2024.

Compact very structured teaser for this city in France with some interesting keywords: Simplify, Innovate , Collaborate and Connect.
With this intranet youcan:

• Easily access information
• Contact your colleagues
• Participate in events
• Search
• Work together in workspaces

The intranet looks very clean and nice, although personally I would like to have some stronger colours.

Uploaded December 2024

Very decent teaser for the intranet of a company that deals in electrical optical components. Again, this intranet has been created to communicate, collaborate and connect.
There's an onboarding section, teaching you a.o. to connect to SharePoint and OneDrive (although this intranet is Simppler, not SharePoint).
Nice employee directory, and the search results are interesting: first you get an AI generated text on top, and any links to documents or other pages underneath.

Uploaded November 2024

Quite short demo of the e-health part of intranet for a USA Heath Care organization. They also have some traditional hospitals. This part of the intranet has all relevant information for conducting an on-line health appointment.
The intranet is based on Google Sites which makes an interesting change from SharePoint 😁

Uploaded November 2024

This is a demo for an intranet based on SharePoint and Teams, for an Irish-based not-for-profit organisation providing health and social care, training and education, rehabilitation, employment and commercial services for people with limitations and disabilities.

Nice intranet, colour scheme fits with the website, and a nice voice explaining all items. It has all the usual stuff. It is still in development, apparently.
I like the voice-over; it is soft but clear and has a hint of an Irish accent.

Uploaded May 2024

Isn't it cool to see the intranet of a big brand? Well, here's Subways! Nice (silent) walkthrough of the content. There's messaging between team members and manager, there's company news, there are some tidbits about wellbeing and time management, training courses for serving perfect coffee, and schedules. All in all quite nice, with big colour blocks. I do find the letters a tad on the small side, and I wonder if the contrast of letters and background is large enough. Intranet for young people with excellent eyesight, I guess 😁.

Uploaded June 2024.

My first entry from Monaco!
First you think that this video highlights the benefits of this hospital, but it turns into an intranet teaser/demo after about 25 seconds. Phew!
The new intranet saves time, can be accessed from anywhere and from every device, is personalized, and contains lots of useful forms, such as entering your children at the creche (daycare). It also has small ads to sell your stuff, and quizzes. It does not show too much of real hospital care, such as work instructions, but that may be the selection of topics.

Uploaded September 2024.

7 seconds of the "signature" of the intranet of a Canadian news broadcaster. Short but sweet.

Uploaded September 2015.

The organization that this teaser video has been made for, is either the Swiss department of foreign affairs, or a producer of large engines for forestry. 😁 Apologies for not knowing!

A lovely teaser, where people from all over the world, in this organizations offices, say something about their country and welcome you to their new intranet, in their own language.

Uploaded August 2015.

This is the intranet for a USA-based financial services provider. It may be from 2015, but it is a good demo. The intranet looks current. The intranet is available on all devices, can be personalized, and has all the usual trimmings such as news and tools to do your work. It is a tad on the corporate side (mission, vision, culture topics).

Uploaded June 2015.

The new intranet for the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sadly it does not show any real intranet details, just animations. But you can customize it yourself and it contains everything to do your work, find others, find information etc. All information is available in Dutch and English, so it makes sense that there is also a Dutch version of this video:

There is also a video about logging in. I am sharing the English version only:

Uploaded May 2024

Short upbeat teaser/demo for the intranet of this global logistics organization. It is a vertical video with a noisy soundtrack and someone talking over it.
Anyway, there are all kinds of useful info here, such as manuals and processes, options to find and connect with your colleagues, etc. It is on SharePoint (guess how I know that?) and looks very much like their website.

Uploaded September 2024

Turn down the volume, as the music is quite loud.
Short, to-the-point teaser (LOTS of info in 45 seconds!) for the first ever intranet for this commercial money exchange organization based in the UK, but operating globally.
It contains a lot of good bullet points, that anyone working on intranets may find helpful.
Purposes are: Streamlining communication, improving data security, enhancing productivity. And key features that you can expect, such as News, a Knowledge Base, Document Management etc.
Sadly, there is no glimpse of the intranet provided but the name has Connect in it and you know I like that! 😁

Uploaded July 2024

Nice people video from the CEO of an association of dentists in the USA. As this is a dispersed organization, it is essential to communicate in many ways, so the intranet will be one way, but there will still be emails, whatsapp/text messages etc, whatever works. In a way that is good, but it is not exactly "Ruthless Implementation" of an internal communications strategy. 😁

The good things about this video are: name and role of the speaker is shown, the message is clear, the background is sufficiently neutral (but what do construction helmets do at this scene?) and it is short (1 min) so you do not get bored. I do not particularly like the background music - it makes the sound rather cluttered.

Uploaded August 2024

This is a people video and a preview in one. First a few employees (with name and role, well done) inform the audience about the importance of a new intranet, and how it was created without departmental silo's, but with the employee and their needs as the central principle. We also see some screenshots from the sessions that were done to get to this intranet.

Then (at about 1.30 mins. into the video) there is a preliminary version of what it will be. There are still a lot of "Lorum Ipsums" but the idea is clear. You can personalize the homepage and there are 5 main navigation items: News, Sales stuff, Selfservice, your personal page and "Useful info".
I particularly like the Personal page (about 2.50 mins into the video), where you can see your wages, the progress of your objectives in a graph, your upcoming training sessions etc.

This is the intranet for a Spanish bank. The intranet looks very much like their website, with tons of whitespace and a custom (or in any case not very common?) typeface.

Uploaded September 2024.

Decent demo of an intranet for the fire-and-rescue-brigade for the island of Mayotte, an overseas part of France. This is an official French department.
The demo focuses on 5 items: Easy access to information, Contact colleagues, Take part in events, Find easily and Collaborate. The intranet looks very nice and clean and the demo is short but provides the essentials.

Uploaded October 2024.

Nice concise demo for this SharePoint intranet for an American association of medical professionals.

The intranet looks quite clean and friendly, but I am a little concerned about the accessibility of the messages in the carrousel; do I see a picture with tons of text there (unreadable for screen readers)? I also think that buttons called "Click here" can benefit from more specific names, such as "Read the Travel Policy" or something like that. The icons popping up in the demo would be great background pix for these buttons, by the way!
There's also a Viva Feed, which is cool and necessary if you are a team; a Suggestion box for ideas to improve the organization and a Shout Out option to give compliments to colleagues.

Uploaded May 2024.

Complicated business = Complicated intranet?
I do not know, but this Brazilian organization has three completely different businesses (agriculture, cars and insurance, and real estate) and their intranet contains TONS of information and tools, and also looks a tad cluttered, at least on the Homepage.
There's news, colleagues, chat, anniversaries, publications, a reservation system for meeting rooms and cars; and what not.
I quite like their IT-help desk system, which is totally integrated in the intranet ( so no separate login to ServiceNow or TopDesk needed) and it gives you a lovely overview of the tickets you have entered with statistics, AND a form to add new questions.
It has Portuguese subtitles, those who are familiar with Roman languages may understand that better than the spoken word. (Goes for me, in any case)

Uploaded June 2024.

Slow but decent demo for an intranet for a global organization of financial services consultants.
At about 1.00 you get the first glimpse of the intranet, after the log-in procedure. Why are there still so many intranets without single sign-on?

I like their profile part, where you can let the organization know about which topics you would like to receive communication. Also, you can determine to which groups you (want to) belong.

Their "training" section is called "Talent" and it has some fancy-named programmes. There are many course you can enroll in.

The Collaboration Hub is built on SharePoint.

There's not a lot of focus on the usual things like News but I also think that is mostly self-explanatory.

Uploaded February 2024

This is the first of two demo videos for a SharePoint intranet for a German Christian missionary organization working in East-Asia.
The video is quite long but you may want to watch the design, which is all in English. It is quite a large organization, so the navigation is quite extensive and there are many pages with instructions, prayers, projects, training etc. It is all a bit top-down or static. But they appear to be new at Microsoft365 and intranets, so interactivity and systems may be added in due course.
The homepage is a bit busy, but the other pages are looking well with images etc.

The other video deals with their usage of Teams. This is basically an explanation of how to work with Teams.

Uploaded February 2024

Decent SharePoint demo, albeit a bit long. This is the intranet for a conglomerate of investors on various fields in the Jewish community in Chicago, if I understand correctly. Boy, it is sometimes hard to understand what organizations actually DO, even if they publish it on their website 😁

It looks pleasant, but I could not find anything exceptional, except the "Intranet feedback form" on their homepage.

Uploaded June 2024.

Mitch (??? what is his role?) explains there is a new intranet and what it does. It is called the Hub (which is always a good name for an intranet) and it does all the things you would expect and intranet to have. "Think of it as the S-drive but then easier to use". It is overall supposed to save people time.
It is a good people video - it contains a few jokes so it is easy to watch and not too long.

This is probably a small-business advocacy organization but I am not 100% sure - there are many organizations with this abbreviation.

Uploaded August 2023

Interesting intranet, as most of it is open for everyone (give it a try - the link will be shown in the video).
This is the intranet for students of a Peruvian education institute for creative professions, such as interior design, cinematography and fashion design.
All things you may expect from a schoon intranet: classes, courses, news, schedules etc.

Uploaded January 2024

Beautiful imagery, all in blue, and MyWater as a name, which fits for the Portuguese water provider.
Unfortunately, there is too much going on in this video to see properly what this is about. The intranet is innovative and versatile, and available on all devices, but it is a bit hard to see what the content is. I would not classify it as a demo, but as a teaser.

Uploaded January 2024

An intranet called The Pier, for a company that deals in fishing equipment. And a fish as logo. Nice one!
A bit of a repetitive demo, with music only, of a SharePoint intranet with a big focus on their many locations. I like their list of shared services contacts which is very visible.

I could not find a website to check if that has the same colour scheme.

Uploaded August 2023.