Intranets

• Join the Team: You can alleviate most bottlenecks and headaches of building an intranet by doing a little homework. The first step is to discover the size and shape of your Extended Web Team. Jim Calhoun shows you how.
• Intranet Savvy: A company intranet should be a "home" for your employees. A place people can turn to when they have a question or a suggestion. J.D. Shipengrover, who has helped build intranets for CompuServe and BMW, gives you first-hand advice
• Engage! What if you built an intranet and nobody came? JD tells you how to prevent that from happening, and gives you tips on creating an intranet that people will actually like as well as use.
• Home, home on the intranet, where the CEO's and the antelope play... That headline has nothing whatsoever to do with this article, but I found it amusing (and sometimes you have to amuse yourself first), and I thought it might attract your attention. JD's latest piece explains how your intranet site better be easy to navigate if you expect anyone to actually use it. She says, "You could have the meaning of life and the cure for cancer on your site, but what good would it do if no one could figure out how to get there?" Exactly.
• You needed it yesterday. So, the boss decided the department needed an intranet—and then decided you were just the right person to create one. Problem being, you don't really know what to put on an intranet, let alone how to create one from scratch. It's OK, you are not alone.
• So you need an intranet, part II: Strange how these things work out, but our intranet columnist was also on a quest to figure out how _not_ to start from scratch, so J.D. Shipengrover gives you tips on using AutoSites to put up an intranet in a hurry.
• Help Desk: What To Include On Your Intranet. When your printer freaks, or your network fails. Who ya gonna call? The help desk. J.D. Shipengrover helps your help desk do a better job on your intranet.