[Web4lib] Intranet revamp

[Robert L. Balliot]

Greetings,

Google Documents allows you to share files and select
who can contribute/ read them.  You can create
spreadsheets compatible with Excel, documents compatible
with Word, and presentations compatible with PowerPoint.

I use it to collaborate with a variety of organizations
and individuals.  It seems that falls in line with the
intranet requirements for non-public and accessible
documents.  The Google Documents can be just as private
or accessible as you want.  Remote access is readily
available without owning any software other than a
browser.

http://docs.google.com/

Sometimes it does seem to hiccup a bit, but not any
more than traditional intranets.

It is in the personal interest of IT departments and
any bureaucracy to sustain itself and grow.  However,
the point of technology and the massive expenditures
we have made to bring it in have always been enhancement
of opportunities and efficiency.  Increasing bandwidth
can make most features currently available through
IT departments possible by utilizing very wide area
networks.  

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Robert L. Balliot
1-401-441-5763
Skype: RBalliot
Bristol, Rhode Island
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Paula Gray-Overtoom
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 1:45 PM
To: Casey Bisson
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Intranet revamp

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

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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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