ThoughtFarmer

“One of the benefits associated with the Placemaking intranet, the Portal, has been a dramatic increase in the frequency and quality of collaboration across our organization, a feat which was a challenge in the past due to a geographically distributed employee base and email saturation. The Portal evolved in a short time from a simple news posting board to a living community which supported the sharing of news, ideas and information. It allowed our critical roles, our Development and Construction Managers, to share innovations that had an immediate impact on the efficiency and quality of our developments. It allowed our employees to share personal information, strengthening relationships between team members who often worked miles apart. It communicated that our leaders trust and value our employee base, now the authors of our intranet, and promoted accountability. And perhaps most importantly, it stimulated dialogue that inspired focus on important initiatives such as environmental sustainability across our organization, innovation, empowerment, work-life balance, and the celebration of individual, team and organizational successes.”

“It was important for us to have a space for disseminating communications, connecting people, and collaborating."

“At one point, we weren’t sure if it was possible, but ThoughtFarmer made it happen. It took some extra development on their end, but they made it all work. It was really awesome not to have to split migration into two phases. They did it all for us.”