Tag Archives: Linchpin

Professional Mobile Apps for Group Chat, Intranet, etc.: A Blessing or a Curse?

Linchpin Mobile

There’s a trend that’s moving away from being always on and always available. Some companies even go so far as to prohibit checking email on smartphones outside of working hours and on weekends.

Nowadays, there are more enterprise software providers coming out with mobile apps. Would this constant email accessibility bring on additional stress? And employees aren’t just getting email. They also have to deal with work-related questions that could come up at any time via push notifications.

I’d like to share a few of my own thoughts and experiences.

Linchpin Intranet: What the mobile app does for employees on the go

Linchpin Mobile

In nearly every type of company, there are employees who are on the road often and can’t regularly be in the office. This can include sales representatives, consultants, commercial workers, and more. Individuals who need to be mobile have one thing in common: they’re usually on their own when it comes to staying up to date with company information. And information doesn’t just flow one way. The mobile app for Linchpin intranets helps such employees in real-life situations get necessary information quickly and easily. This can benefit the entire organization in several ways.

The New Linchpin Theme Plugin: Simple and Flexible Visual Configuration for Confluence

Linchpin Intranet

There isn’t much debate when it comes to the meaning of corporate branding. Both external and internal communication demand clean lines, if we’re talking about the general image of a company. With the introduction and development of an enterprise wiki, like Confluence, the adaptation to individual corporate design can bring value to companies and, most of all, to employees.

Enterprise News Bundle for Confluence: News Categories and intelligent picture scaling

Enterprise News Bundle: Clickable categories

The professional administration of internal news is one of the most important must-haves for companies’ intranet solutions. The Enterprise News Bundle for Confluence enables this and makes it possible to show flexible, personalized news concepts for Confluence-based intranets. Version 1.4 delivers extensive improvements.

Linchpin Intranet: A New Employee Portal for Siemens-Betriebskrankenkasse (SBK)

SBK Article header image

//SEIBERT/MEDIA and SBK have collaborated on a social intranet project using our Linchpin platform. What started with user-story workshops to tailor the project requirements to suit the needs of the users, was iteratively implemented, and is now in use by the employees of SKB: The new employee portal has been live for several months now!

Linchpin: The intranet relaunch at MEYER WERFT

Linchpin Intranet

The first //SEIBERT/MEDIA client to introduce a Linchpin intranet to their organization was MEYER WERFT GmbH & Co. KG. The German shipbuilding company, which has been in business since 1795, is renowned for its shipyard in Papenburg. For over 200 years, the experts at this family-run business have built numerous ships. To compete internationally, production technology had to be on the cutting edge. Today, MEYER WERFT has the most modern shipbuilding facilities in the world.