[Web4lib] Intranet revamp

[Casey Bisson]

Not all, but most of our meeting minutes are now in Google Docs, where  
we can track who's made what changes, and we can even have several  
people editing at once. It works well for procedures too (which always  
needed updating before we switched). Definitely worth a look.

I'm worried when you say people aren't familiar enough with the public  
site to use it, though.

--Casey

On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Paula Gray-Overtoom wrote:

> Casey,
>
> I’ve wondered about doing that too from time to time, but we still  
> want a place for procedures, meeting minutes and such that would  
> just clog up our public site.  I also think some staff depend on the  
> information and the ways they can access it from our intranet and  
> aren’t familiar enough with our public site.
>
> Thanks,
> Paula
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Paula Gray-Overtoom
> Information Services Librarian
> 812-349-3050
> Fax: 812-349-3051
> Monroe County Public Library
> 303 E. Kirkwood Ave.
> Bloomington, IN 47408
> http://www.mcpl.info
>
>
>
> From: Casey Bisson [mailto:cbisson at plymouth.edu]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 1:36 PM
> To: Paula Gray-Overtoom
> Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Intranet revamp
>
>
> Paula,
>
> We gave up on our intranet a while ago, as we learned there was  
> really no web-based information we wanted to share that we couldn't  
> also share with the public. We do use Google Docs and a shared  
> fileserver, but most of our content is on our website using Scriblio:
>
> http://library.plymouth.edu/
>
> And when you search, it returns results from both the site and the  
> catalog -- especially useful for course and subject guides. Our  
> licensed databases are linked there too, and users are prompted for  
> their university username and password when they click on them.
>
> --Casey Bisson
>
> __________________________________________
>
>
> Information Architect
>
> Plymouth State University
>
> Plymouth, New Hampshire
>
> http://oz.plymouth.edu/~cbisson/
>
> ph: 603-535-2256
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Paula Gray-Overtoom wrote:
>
>
> Our library is preparing to revamp our intranet and I am wondering if
> any of you would be willing to let us take a peek at your intranet.
>
> I have a few questions too and even if I can't take a look, I'd like
> find out how other people are doing it.
>
> 1.  What software are you using to post content?
>
> 2.  How do you manage how and what gets posted?
>
> 3.  What are the best features of your intranet?
>
> 4.  What about your intranet could use some improvement?
>
> We've had an intranet available to our staff for about 7 years and  
> have
> used Macromedia/Adobe's Contribute software to post content for the
> majority of that time.  We also have a blog, a wiki, dynamically
> generated content from in-house developed scripts and static pages.   
> We
> really want to consider moving to an open source CMS and want to see
> what other libraries are doing.
>
> You can email me at pgrayove at mcpl.info
>
> Thanks,
> Paula
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Paula Gray-Overtoom
> Information Services Librarian
> 812-349-3050
> Fax: 812-349-3051
>
> Monroe County Public Library
> 303 E. Kirkwood Ave.
> Bloomington, IN 47408
> http://www.mcpl.info
>
>
>
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