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The Children's Society improves internal communications with Content Managed Intranet from Unified Solutions 

After successfully relaunching The Children's Society’s website last year, Unified Solutions has been invited by the charity to develop a full-function intranet, based on Percussion Rhythmyx 6.5 CMS.

The Children's Society, best known for its work promoting a good childhood for all children in the UK, is a leading charity running a network of over 70 community-based projects. These provide help and support for children who feel excluded, isolated or abandoned. An important part of the charity’s internal communications strategy is to develop an intranet that engages all staff, wherever they are based.

Unified is utilising experience built up over the past 13 years to deliver The Children's Society a full-function Intranet, rather than the kind of “no go” area that Intranets have all too often become. By changing the way information is managed internally, communication with will be improved dramatically.

Many of The Children’s Society employees are based at their London Headquarters but the majority of staff work in shops, offices and projects throughout the UK.  A custom-built intranet will improve communication with employees through threaded discussion forums, blogs and social notice boards. All company information will be disseminated though a secure portal delivering significant tangible benefits.

This central repository of will reduce the frustration of not being able to find information and enable employees to find information more intuitively and quickly, cut duplication costs and errors from out-of-date or inaccurate information. Increased productivity will enable employees to concentrate on the aims of the charity.

Personalisation of content can be set by individuals and departments. Integration with key organisational systems will result in dynamic features like the staff directory that will be automatically updated as people move within the organisation.

Knowledge resides with people rather than machines, and tools, such as the customisable contacts Directory, will assist employees to locate the correct person within the organisation.

Unified Solutions’ core business is designing highly intuitive, interactive web sites and implementing enterprise-level content management systems. Given that Sight Savers International, Cancer  Research UK, Voluntary Services Overseas, Christian Aid, Charities Aid Foundation and many other  charities are already customers, The Children Society was confident that Unified provided a “safe pair of  hands” for this important project.

Emma Brooks New Media Manager for The Children’s Society explains why Unified Solutions are the only choice:

"We were thrilled to see the website go live and to have achieved this in the scheduled timescales is something we can all be proud of. The feedback from the organisation has been fantastic and once again we'd just like to say how much we appreciate you guys going the extra mile. The decision to use Unified Solutions for our future intranet project was made without a second thought, and we look forward to continued success.’

Tim Chalklen, Managing Director of Unified Solutions, comments:

‘It has been a delight and pleasure to work with Emma and the rest of the team at The Children’s Society to deliver this really excellent website and to see some immediate results which will, ultimately, benefit the children that The Children’s Society works tirelessly to support and protect.

A large part of the reason for our joint success has been the close interaction between members of the team here at Unified and those at The Children’s Society and the amount of commitment and effort put in by both sides. We’re all looking forward to the Intranet project and a long-term relationship’.

For The Children's Society’s website, Unified Solutions implemented Percussion Rhythmyx 6.5. Using Rhythmyx has helped drive The Children’s Society’s online communications strategy by supporting a significant increase in the number of content publishers and the volume of content. This in turn has enabled The Children’s Society to enrich the tone of the content, making it more relevant for its target audiences.

For more information please contact:

Sales at Unified Solutions on 01753 775050, or e-mail sales@unified.co.uk

 

November 2008