Ellen's Intranet Promotion Videos

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:

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.

Well, who sees immediately that this is SharePoint? I did not until it was mentioned. This intranet is from 2013 and it shows, but the video has been uploaded in 2024.

It is a demo for an intranet for a Car company in Singapore. It has/had news, commercial info, birthdays, all domain names, collaboration on documents AND an employee discount advert! The sound is not really good but otherwise a decent demo.

Uploaded January 2024

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Pleasant demo (especially the music) of this SharePoint intranet for a Spanish manufacturer of car wash machines.

The site looks very much like their website design and looks as if they are using custom icons. I did not see any hover-over texts.
I also saw coloured folders in their "Productpedia" for Marketing. All pictures have their DSC_ name. If this is for all the organization, it could be a tad more intuitive. If they do not want to change every file name, they could make the Tiles view the default.
They are also a bit inconsistent with regards to all caps and camel caps.
Anway, there are a lot of procedures and processes, products, images etc.

Nonetheless, there is a lot to see in this demo, which stops at about 2.11 but only really finishes when the music stops.

Uploaded April 2024.

Teaser for a new social intranet (well, that took some time!) for this Dutch datacenter host.
As this intranet is meant to connect people, and the organization has an x in their name, it makes sense to call this ConneXion.
It is a better way to connect, communicate and collaborate.

"Coming to a screen near you" - a classic phrase in intranet promotion videos!

Uploaded February 2024.

Lots of spoken text in Spanish, but I think you will understand the gist of it without copying and translating the available transcript. This is the intranet for a Columbian software company. In this video you get a high-level summary of the homepage.
It has all the usual suspects, such as navigation elements, a rotating banner, recent news, search etc.
The dropdown top-left, called "Herramientos" (tools) is an interesting one as it contains icons rather than texts. I hope everyone knows what those icons mean, as there is also no alt-text.
In case you want to add News, you have to submit it to the secretary of the CEO, if I understand correctly. Oh, and by now you will understand this is not SharePoint. 😉

The video below is an explanation of what is behind each item of the left-hand-side menu

Uploaded April 2024 (but the video shows news from 2022)

Animated teaser for this intranet for the municipal services for a German city. Sadly we do not see any real images of the intranet, but there are nice animations of processes, so they can be an inspiration for your own video. The name of the intranet is KOSMOS, and it is used for information exchange, idea generation, networking, collaborating on documents, ask questions to experts. In short: it makes collaboration easier and is a new way to work.

Uploaded March 2024

You may have seen this teaser before, but it now has two accompanying videos!

We have seen it before: the old intranet can sometimes be a jungle, where you can't find anything. And sometimes it hides scary things....
This is for a university in the Netherlands. We are ever so curious what has happened to Sebastian, who has been sent to the old intranet to find a file. Goodbye searching, hello finding!

Uploaded February 2023.

In this video, Sebastian is still looking for the file. He is running around campus with a big jungle knife. (I wonder why other people stay so calm 😁) But finally he finds the desired file. Goodbye static content, hello dynamic content!
Uploaded: February 2024

Sebastian wants to file something to the intranet and he finds out he can do that himself. Goodbye bystander, hello participant!
Uploaded February 2024

How to access, update and navigate the intranet for a education institute in Peru, specializing in ICT and Food and Beverage processing.

Uploaded July 2023.

An intranet demo of 6 minutes of a slow talking person can be a bit much, but this demo for an technology education institute in the USA has a few interesting things. And you can use subtitles and speed up the video a bit 😉

• It is called FT Connect. You know I am partial to intranets called Connect 😁
• It is built on Simpplr, an unknown platform for me. Nice to see how that looks.
• For profiles they use a cover image which you are requested to add. Hmmm, I wonder why that is necessary and how many will be going to do that. (It is not a profile picture, but a background image)
• On someone's profile page you can see what they have published.
• There's not a navigation in topics, but in applications. You can find all topics and sites you re interested in (or member of) under "sites".
• It has a "must read" option for important documents, e.g. policies. You get notified you have to read it, and then have to sign after reading. Now, a signed document is not necessarily a read document, or an understood message, or an desired action taken, but it is interesting that organizations think this works. It reminds me of Chris Tubb's: “A page view is not an idea understood, a behaviour changed or a user engaged” when talking about intranet news reading statistics.
• There are search verticals. Nothing exciting, but it may help you find things.

Uploaded September 2023

This is a nice teaser. Different people talk about the new intranet, and of course it will have...all those things that modern intranets have. I really like the approach.
The only thing is that it is shot vertically, so you do not have a lot of real estate.
This is for a Canadian health care center.

They also have a video for how to access the intranet...and guess what, it is called BCHUConnect! Another Connect one 😁

Uploaded January 2024

I know that SAP is a necessary business software, but I have always hated the total lack of flexibility of it, and the most un-intuitive language to get something done. So it gives me great pleasure to see an "intranet" built on SharePoint to inform staff about a SAP project. Nice upbeat music, colourful screens, a QR code: quite a pleasant video actually.
This is for a South African company that produces sugar and sugar products, so I can imagine they will benefit from a robust SAP-solution.

Uploaded February 2024.