Re: Intranets

[Beth Mazur <mazur -at- MAYA -dot- COM>]

Dennis writes:
>
>>     Do any of you have experience working with intranets? If so, could you
>>     explain to me if they are really like a private Internet for your
>>     organization, complete with company-wide Web server, or something
>>     completely different? Do you find them useful for information
>>     distribution and retrieval within your organization, moreso than say
>>     Lotus Notes or cc:Mail bulletin boards?

I maintain the web server here at MAYA. We have a fairly extensive intranet
in place. Besides serving up documents (e.g., policies, HR information), we
also use our intranet as a method to collect and manage employee timesheets,
catalog the entries in our library, and enter/query bugs for one of our
software interface projects.

Our primary reason for using web-based technology for this, besides the low
cost, is the ability to serve so many different platforms easily. We're
a fairly small shop, but staff here is relatively evenly divided between
PC, Macintosh, and UNIX platforms.

I'll be presenting a session on intranets at the STC conference in Toronto.
I've started collecting some online resources; if you'd like, you can check
them out at http://www.maya.com/local/mazur/STC97/intranet.html.

Beth Mazur
mazur -at- maya -dot- com

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