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SharePoint Knowledge Agent: How AI-Powered Governance Solves the Intranet Nightmare for Internal Communicators
Here's a familiar scene: you're scrolling through your SharePoint intranet and discover yet another abandoned site. The one from the initiative that finished three years ago. No one's bothered to retire it. Then there's the content that's supposed to be updated...
How to Make Microsoft Viva a Strategic Communication Asset
Over the last decade, organisations have incorporated more and more tools into their digital workplaces. As technology evolved and an increasing number of specialised platforms entered the market, it became the norm for IC teams to have different standalone platforms...
Helping Hyphen Celebrate Their 25th Anniversary with a Creative Intranet Campaign
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their Paris and Madrid offices, Hyphen created a six-week inter-office scavenger hunt that brought colleagues together and strengthened their 'One Hyphen' culture. Using SharePoint and Beacon web parts, Hyphen’s Communication’s...
Why the Microsoft Viva Communications Dashboard Deserves a Place in Every Internal Communicator’s Toolkit
Internal communicators are constantly asked to do more with less — more engagement, more visibility, more impact — all while navigating shrinking budgets and fragmented tools. One of the most promising developments in Microsoft 365 for comms professionals is...
Guides
Fixing Your Broken Digital Workplace
Fixing the Broken Digital Workplace A Practical Guide for IT Leaders to Transform Microsoft 365 Workplaces Struggling with fragmented tools, low adoption, or disconnected teams? Our guide helps IT and digital workplace leaders quickly identify what’s working, what’s...
Digital Workplace Audit Checklist
Digital Workplace Audit Checklist Framework for assessing and evolving your Microsoft 365 digital workplace Struggling with tool overload? Not getting the most from Microsoft 365? This checklist helps IT and digital workplace teams quickly identify what’s working,...
SharePoint Accessibility Checklist Guide
SharePoint Accessibility Checklist A 7-Step Guide to Creating An Accessible & Inclusive SharePoint Building an accessible SharePoint environment isn’t just about ticking boxes—it’s about creating a digital workspace that’s welcoming for everyone. This 7-step...
Successful Internal Communications in Higher Education
Successful Internal Communications in Higher Education A Microsoft 365 Guide Universities are embarking on huge digital transformations, legacy platforms are reaching end of life and staff are demanding change. Now is the perfect time for internal communicators in HE...
Case Studies
IGF’s Digital Workplace Revolution: Creating a Unified Employee Experience
Independent Growth Finance (IGF) partnered with Silicon Reef to design and implement a modern SharePoint-based intranet. This new digital workplace solution addressed IGF’s challenge of fragmented internal communications by providing a central hub for company news,...
Gulf Oil: A Global Intranet for a Connected Workforce
The Challenge With operations in over 100 countries and a legacy spanning more than a century, Gulf Oil is one of the fastest growing names in the lubricants and fuel retail industries. But, until recently, communication across departments and regions was fragmented....
Streamlining Resource Management: A Custom Provisioning Tool for a Multinational Engineering Company
The Challenge Our client is a British multinational manufacturing and engineering business with thousands of employees worldwide. With a vast workforce spread across multiple locations, the company relies heavily on Microsoft Teams and SharePoint for communication and...
University of Leeds: Improving Communication in Higher Education with a SharePoint Intranet
Summary The University of Leeds faced a challenge familiar to many higher-education institutions: fragmented communication channels that made it difficult to keep staff and students aligned. To address this, the university partnered with Silicon Reef to design and...
Podcast
Series 3, Episode 5 – Alex Graves and Martin Day
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 5 In the world of modern work efficiency is the name of the game. Enter: the ‘Do More With Less’ ethos. Microsoft have been encouraging organisations to 'Do More With Less', a message which stems back to Microsoft’s...
Series 3, Episode 4 – Craig Smith
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 4 A brand’s vision and values are integral to the decisions made day to day, but are they imparted onto a business, or rather uncovered to already lie within their DNA? Being over 14 years into a journey of helping businesses...
Series 3, Episode 3 – Asahi
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 3 There’s an ever-growing link between change management & internal comms across the board, which is clear to see from observing Asahi’s two functions working so closely together. Asahi’s Head of Change Management, Soraya...
Series 3, Episode 2 – Martin Day and Alex Graves
Work Happy Podcast: S3 - Episode 2 Microsoft Viva - Microsoft's employee experience platform - is an incredibly powerful suite of apps. But, to many it presents a dizzying array of tools and we often hear from customers how the sheer volume of apps, updates...