Publications

In publications you find our articles and a database of corporate best practice websites for inspiration.

Articles - 2007

december

Trends for corporate websites in 2008 - part III

Saskia Aalberts

How to meet the needs of each target group on your corporate website? How to address individual visitors? And how to use your corporate website as a medium to communicate your 'brand'? An investor or job-seeker may also be one of your customers!...Read More

11 december 20073255 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

november

BASF best in class in online sustainability communications

Geert Jan Grimberg

BASF's corporate website - www.basf.com - is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications. Jungle Rating - a Dutch internet consultancy - concludes this after having investigated all sustainability...Read More

21 november 20073075 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 53 reacties

Trends for corporate websites in 2008 - part II

Saskia Aalberts

How can you incorporate Web 2.0 applications into your corporate website? How important is a corporate weblog? When should you enrich information? What is the added value of video? Look at best practices, read what your stakeholders expect and...Read More

13 november 200710458 viewsrating:rating: 2 of 51 reactie

oktober

Trends for corporate websites in 2008

Saskia Aalberts

According to the Benchmark Financial Communication 2007 conducted by Jungle Rating, companies can and must become more proficient at anticipating financial stakeholders’ needs. Many companies still lag behind, but Jungle Rating sees five clear...Read More

29 oktober 20073464 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

september

Getting started on web performance management

Linda Volkers

One thing is for sure: corporate websites cost money. But what do they yield? More job seekers? Lower costs? A higher profile? A reduction in the number of route descriptions and annual reports sent out? And how do you measure the extent to...Read More

17 september 20072098 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

Webanalytics tips for your corporate website

Geert Jan Grimberg

Online marketeers, they live with web statistics. A decrease of 0,34% of visitors can cause serious headaches. The questions is: how important are web stats for an online corporate communications professional? In this article Jungle Rating...Read More

4 september 20072297 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

augustus

Intranet shops - attracting and engaging employees

Linda Volkers

Intranets are hardly used for personnel offers and promotion. This is a missed chance, because the intranet offers excellent possibilities for informing, servicing and involving employees. Some marketing insights to establish an effective...Read More

21 augustus 20071584 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

Mobile friendly corporate websites - AEX vs. Bel20

Geert Jan Grimberg

A small explorative research by Jungle Rating amongst the largest Dutch and Belgian listed companies shows that seven AEX companies as opposed to zero BEL-20 companies have a mobile friendly corporate website. In this article we explain what a...Read More

7 augustus 20073401 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 57 reacties

juli

Respond to your stakeholders - in time

Saskia Aalberts

Financial stakeholders and journalists expect a suitable answer to their urgent questions as soon as possible. Research shows that only two third of Dutch listed companies answered within 24 hours. Even worse: only one third of not listed...Read More

24 juli 20071430 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

Intranet Wikis - the employee is in control

Linda Volkers

Wikis and other social media are rapidly changing the world of internal communications. The employee is in control and the co-worker has become the expert. Early adaptors like AEP, National Geographic, Microsoft, IBM or ING provide good examples...Read More

10 juli 20072292 viewsrating:rating: 4 of 51 reactie

juni

Seven ways of demonstrating innovation

Linda Volkers

'Innovation' is often one of the company values. The difficulty is to demonstrate that your company really is ahead of the crowd and is constantly developing and renewing. Read how you can use your corporate website to give more meaning to your...Read More

27 juni 20071764 viewsrating:rating: 4 of 5

Outcome preliminary research FD Henri Sijthoff Award 2007

Saskia Aalberts

The overall financial communication of AEX firms has improved considerably over the last year and exceeds the Midkap and Small cap. This can be concluded from the research Jungle Rating conducted for 'Het Financieele Dagblad'. We assessed the...Read More

11 juni 20072577 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

mei

How to use the web in times of a merger - The ABN AMRO case

Geert Jan Grimberg

The internet allows companies to communicate in a quick and transparent manner to a globally dispersed group of stakeholders. In this article we illustrate how all parties involved in the current ABN AMRO merger use their corporate website to...Read More

30 mei 20075330 viewsrating:rating: 4 of 5

Benefits of using video for online recruitment

Saskia Aalberts

Video interviews have a positive effect on online recruitment. They can save money, are a service to job seekers and enhance the quality of applicants. Jungle Rating will provide you with three case studies (Loyens & Loeff, Mc Kinsey, Nauta...Read More

8 mei 20076884 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

april

How to monitor your intranet performance

Linda Volkers

Only few organisations are capable or required to demonstrate the ROI of their intranet. Increasing demands on accountability lead to the awareness that the online internal communications can and should be monitored. Web performance management...Read More

24 april 20076977 viewsrating:rating: 4 of 5

Firms miss opportunities for online recruitment

Saskia Aalberts

Jungle Rating investigated how consultancy firms recruit new employees via their websites. Video is rarely used, except for law firms. Blogging is catching on and testimonials have become widely accepted. 95% of applicants look at the corporate...Read More

11 april 20075096 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

maart

4 tips for a sustainable corporate website

Geert Jan Grimberg

In this article, Jungle Rating provides you with inspiration for reviving your online sustainability section, and the corporate website in general. Learn about 'dancing data', learn how to write a clear-cut case study and find out how to involve...Read More

27 maart 20072854 viewsrating:rating: 4 of 52 reacties

Research findings - quality of online sustainability reporting

Geert Jan Grimberg

Most large companies provide a sustainability report every year. But what about their online sustainability communications? Based on the results of a preliminary research on the quality of online sustainability communications, Jungle Rating...Read More

13 maart 20072686 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 51 reactie

februari

Tips for improving your intranet - what works

Linda Volkers

You can enhance your online internal communications. Just follow the ten tips for tools and services for an effective intranet.Read More

27 februari 20072677 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 51 reactie

Checklist for the ultimate webcast

Saskia Aalberts

76% of all Dutch listed companies webcast the presentation of their annual figures. For AEX companies this percentage is even 100%. Webcasting analyst meetings and even the AGM is a trend for 2007. How to turn a simple video into a successful...Read More

13 februari 20071938 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

januari

Best Practice examples: HTML reporting

Geert Jan Grimberg

In our last newsletter we discussed the pros and cons of online reports. This week we show three best practice examples of HTML reports, which all make use of the unique possibilities the internet has to offer.Read More

30 januari 20072353 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

Online annual reports: pros, cons and tips

Geert Jan Grimberg

In the upcoming months most quoted companies will publish their annual reports on 2006. Each year a growing number of companies do not only publish their annual report in PDF, but in dynamic or completely web-based HTML format as well. In this...Read More

16 januari 20075212 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5

5 essential online communications trends in 2006

Saskia Aalberts

In 2006 Jungle Rating was on top of all trends in online corporate communications. In this newsletter we will refresh your memory and provide you with an overview of the main developments, issues and trends for corporate websites. We also invite...Read More

12 januari 20075364 viewsrating:rating: 3 of 5