Publishing standards are key to providing the right foundation for your intranet. Your organisation will invest in the technology needed to publish information but technology will not be enough. For people to be more productive, they need to be confident in the integrity and reliability of what they use and technology alone does not deliver that.
Publishing standards make that critical difference. They form the basis for your intranet’s user experience to be consistently good. These standards need applying to different types of content and tools. You can set up publishing standards based on the following requirements:
- Information policies
- User needs
- Legal
- Regulation
The publishing standards you should consider are:
- Ownership
- Timeliness
- Security
- Findability
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Navigation
- Copyright
- Compliance
As well as making your intranet the best experience for people using it, you also need to make it a good publishing experience. The better the processes and support offered, the more likely it will be that publishers will follow the standards. Make it easy for publishers to seek the right guidance by providing it on the intranet, saving everyone’s time.
With confidence in the integrity of your intranet content and applications, people will want to use them more frequently and become more productive. To ensure that this happens, you also need to take steps to ensure publishers comply with each standard. Compliance, implemented in a smart way, can be simple, effective, and of great benefit to your intranet users.
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