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Intranet Guide project

As part of the most recent Intranet Peers in Government forum, I set a half-day project to come up with the outline of a "best practice" Intranet Guide for authors, reviewers and administrators.

This proved to be a lot of fun for all concerned, and and the two teams also came up with some really interesting ideas. I've now gathered their results together into a report, for use by the broader intranet community.

Download the PDF file (224k)

Your thoughts and comments on this?

Posted by jamesr on March 06, 2003 01:23 PM
Categories: Design & usability guidelines, Intranets

Comments

It looks like something you might expect to rally up in a session like that. :)

It looked like a good session. The most important thing with these things is to have the people with needs think practically about what they need. When they do, the rest is more or less bickering about what comes in in what milestone, or at all.

I was especially glad to see tema A think about the legal aspects (and possibly authority rights?) of an intranet, and also the accessibility. Good stuff.

Posted by: Alexander Johannesen on March 6, 2003 06:09 PM

Did you think about the access to information? Roughly you can take two approaches there:
1. let a search engine do that work for you
2. think about the organization of information and provide a set of metadata that allows others to find their way
The second one is more intensive but it will produce more results in the long run. The good news is, you can start with the second approach small and make it bigger later.
My compliments for your work though.

Posted by: Marcel van Mackelenbergh on March 8, 2003 02:05 AM

Excellent piece to share.

Thank you!

Posted by: Charles on March 20, 2003 03:18 AM