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Add Location Info to Intranet Calendar Events [Video]
Tweet Have you ever had event participants get lost, because they didn’t know how to get to the venue? You can minimize the chances of that happening when you provide location details in Noodle intranet’s calendar application. Watch this video to learn how: If you don’t have Noodle intranet software yet, click the button below [...]
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Should Your Intranet Be More Like Facebook?
Tweet More and more it seems companies want their intranets to resemble social networking sites. Facebook, to be exact. Just last week, during a product demo, the prospect asked, “Can I ‘like’ an item?” In fact, some organizations use Facebook itself as their intranet, or at least to provide the “social” part of their intranet. [...]
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Add Custom Fields In Noodle Intranet User’s Profile Page [Video]
Tweet In Noodle intranet, each user has a profile page where users can share their contact information and other data. Sometime you want to add more information on the profile page than what’s included by default. You can do so by adding custom fields. This video shows you how:
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How A Library’s Intranet Improved Customer Service
Tweet Libraries, by their nature, use lots and lots of paper. But for the Essex County Library, reducing the amount of paper they used actually made them more productive and even improved their customer service. In their pre-intranet days, library staff used to make 20 copies of their thick manual, policies, procedures, and instructions. This [...]
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Noodle Intranet’s Template User [Video]
Tweet If you need to manually add many intranet users, some of whom share the same contact information or settings, then use the Template User feature of Noodle intranet. Template Users make adding users a lot faster and easier, because you won’t need to do the settings or type the data for each one. The [...]
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Spring Maintenance for Your Intranet
Tweet Spring is an exciting time for gardeners. Even before warm weather sets in, gardeners must complete a set of activities that will pay off in an abundant growing season. It’s the same with your intranet. Maintenance tasks need to be completed daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly to keep your intranet fresh, lively, and [...]
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Scheduling in Noodle Intranet Calendar [Video]
Tweet By properly labeling your events in Noodle intranet calendar, you can easily find a common free time to schedule a meeting or appointment with your colleagues. Watch this video to learn how to label your events as either Free, Busy, Tentative, or Out of the Office:
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Getting to Inbox Zero
Tweet Nothing annoys me more than having friends gloat on Facebook or Twitter that they’ve gotten their email inboxes down to zero. In my entire history of using email, I’ve accomplished inbox zero maybe 3 times. Once with a brand-new email account, so that may not even count. Having a good intranet can certainly help [...]
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Noodle’s Intranet Database Connector Field [Video]
Tweet If you’re creating an electronic form where the values of one field come from another database, use the Database Connector Field. This field allows users to get information from an existing database in your Noodle intranet, and use it to populate a field in another database. Watch this video to see how it works:
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Going Paperless Through the Intranet
Tweet Hard to believe but true: Despite the many advantages of the paperless office, we’re still a long way off from ending our love affair with paper. For example, according to an Edelman Berland survey, even though 87% of respondents consider their office to be “mostly digital,” only 2% use no paper whatsoever in business [...]
Tim Dorey is the founder and president of Vialect. He has spent over 10 years consulting on Intranet projects for companies like Johnson and Johnson, Coldwell Banker, United Nations and the University of Maryland.
Lexi Rodrigo is Vialect's web content producer and official social media butterfly.