Hi Wilam, thanks for your question. While I'm sure the community has some great ideas to share, I wanted to start you off with this chapter from our Digital Workplace Playbook. There's a lot of good points in here along the lines of recruiting champions to create hype, planning a cadence for that hype and cultivating some C-Level engagement to support launch efforts. 

In the past we've seen all manner of things - hype posts on internal company monitors, email blasts, physical sign boards, QR codes, and swag, swag swag. 

Best practice is to establish a plan and cadence, keep messaging consistent and target the correct audiences for those communications. 

Happy to chat about this if you've got additional questions. 

Brad Rooke Thanks for this! 

Hi Wilam Tarris! Some ideas that have worked for me in the past:

• If you have budget, get intranet-branded items like pens, power banks, etc and give to your employees 
• Hold lunch and learns where you show off the new intranet and its features in a more casual setting to get people excited about it
• Big launch day event with games, scavenger hunt on the intranet, getting people to upload their profile photo, etc and prizes to reward winners 
• Get the leaders involved - if there are town halls, ask them to bring up the intranet, and on launch day have leaders writing blogs welcoming everyone

Dori Gray Thanks very much. I love the idea of a scavenger hunt on the intranet!

Wilam Tarris, I echo everything Dori Gray stated. We did many of the same things minus the branded items. We also had a soft launch for a month to get the team used to the new intranet before the cutover from the old one. We weren't sure if the team wanted to keep the old name so we held a naming contest and awarded prizes. Ultimately, the team decided to stick with the old name. :)

John Vasquez Oh yes I love naming contests! And if you keep voting private, you don't even have to pick the actual winner if it isn't what you like   

Thanks very much, everyone! I appreciate the help!