[Sigkm-l] Gaining Intranet standards compliance

[Jim Smallwood]

Our organization has been striving for a number of years to gain
broader compliance on our intranet standards but has met with limited
success. We have published standards in place, have appointed specific
individuals as content stewards and try to meet regularly with them to
maintain an open dialog and seek their input. Corporate support for
intranet standards can be uneven (as we suspect it is an many
organizations) because demonstrating value can be a challenge.

What has worked in your organization? We're interested to find out how
other organizations have approached the question of how to
enforce/gain compliance with intranet standards in terms of content,
style, standard headers/footers, branding, etc. Have you found that a
top - down approach works better or is a bottom - up approach more
effective? We have been successful to a certain degree but gaining
wide acceptance of content and design standards has been much more
challenging.

Your insights are greatly appreciated!

Jim Smallwood
treebit at gmail.com