Intranets

Advanced Search

News, ideas & conversations for communicators worldwide

INTERNAL

EXECUTIVE COMM

Electric company empowers staffers on its intranet

By Lindsey Miller

Canadian utility has grown its online community by encouraging workers to sound off.

Great Web sites are boring to manage

By Gerry McGovern

Interesting and challenging design and content is often what causes problems online.

Inside Dow's worldwide CEO blog launch

By Christine Kent

How Dow Chemical's social media team prepared, tested and rolled out the CEO blog to ensure it would resonate with employees.

Intranets: When ‘push’ comes to shove

By John M. Cowan

Launch your intranet to deliver important information to your work force.

Persuade fearful managers to use social media
Social media expert Ike Pigott advises communicators how they can persuade reluctant executives to use social media.

SOUND OFF

It's tough being a communicator

By Cassandra

MyRagan blogger Cassandra explains what's wrong with the corporate communications world and why communicators aren't getting the respect they deserve.

What's SOUND OFF?

It's your turn to share your triumphs, challenges, tips and thoughts with other communicators without the middle man (namely, us) getting in the way.

Tell us why you added a blog or podcast to your site, how you get employees to use your Intranet, why your intranet redesign was a failure or success, or how you simply manage to trudge through the minutiae of the daily grind without losing your mind. And anything else on your mind.

Submit your story

RESOURCES

AWARDS

Best of the best
Find out who took home the prize for Best Intranet at the 2007 Ragan Recognition Awards.

HOT TOPICS

TIPS & TACTICS

TOOLS FOR COMMUNICATORS

TOOLKIT

Tools for Social Media
How to converse in e-communities, including: How to set up powerful electronic town halls, the 15 worst podcasting mistakes, and why internal communicators should replace e-mail with blogs to manage their projects, all in this downloadable toolkit.
$29.95

price: FREE

TOOLKIT

Face-to-face communications: Engage employees now
Gauge your odds for successfully introducing face-to-face-communications in your company with Ragan's trusty scorecard.
$29.95 price: FREE

NEWSLETTER

First Draft
Reprint and reproduce articles, calendars, jokes, fillers, statistics, quotes and more.
$159.00 price: $99

Find out the latest in content management with Web Content Report

Each monthly issue brings you the hottest trends, including:
• Attracting and retaining visitors to your Web site
• Trends in measurement, social media and video
• Writing for search—and more!
$299.00

price: $99

RESEARCH REPORTS

The Social Media Revolution
Discover the most pressing issues, ground-breaking trends and proven applications of social media in this new manual from Ragan Research.
$349

price: $279

Ragan Communications congratulates ...

The 2009 Ragan Recognition Awards Recipients

Thanks to all who participated in this year's contest!

Get Ragan's Daily Headlines delivered to your e-mail box every business day.

Become a Ragan Select member today!

Looking for a total immersion social event packed with real-world, online PR strategies that work? Look no further.

Corporate Communications & the Social Media Revolution

Discover how the most innovative companies are using Twitter, blogs and other social media tools in PR and internal communications.

June 24-26, 2009.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, in Chicago.

Deal Price: $995
Deal Member Price: $745

Book now and receive a $200 Southwest Airlines voucher! Offer expires May 30th.

MANUAL
Writing on the Job: How to Make Your Point Precisely
Create e-mails, letters, memos, reports and presentations that get your message across clearly and correctly with this new manual.

RaganSelect

members save $50!