A Day in the Life of an Intranet“A Day in the Life of an Intranet” is a blog post series by Rachel Lai of
Intranet Connections that explores how employees at the fictional company West Coast Savings Credit Union interact with their intranet,
The Buzz, during the course of a day in the office.
Eva CollinsHR Administrator
Eva Collins
Eva Collins is an HR Administrator at WCSCU. Last week Eva met with Heather Jenkins, the HR Manager, to discuss setting up a Career, Health and Wellness area on The Buzz Intranet.
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Welcome to the BuzzThe intranet site for West Coast Savings Credit Union
Eva brings up The Buzz to build the new sub-site for the intranethttp://blogs.intranetconnections.com
Building the Sub-Site
Eva begins by entering the Buzz admin site and clicks to create a new Department Site, giving it the name of “Career, Health and Wellness”
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Securing the Sub-Site
Eva secures the new sub-site so end users won’t be able to see it until Heather has signed-off on it.
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Creating the Navigation Menu• Eva uses the
navigation tool from the Application Toolbox– Eva selects
applications that will be added as the sub-site navigation. One click and each application is created in seconds
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Employee Services
Eva adds a documents application for “Employee Services” to store policies, procedures, and forms for the credit union’s medical, dental, 401K plans
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Job Center
Next she selects a dedicated Jobs application for HR to post new job opportunities within the organization and for employees to apply with their online resumes
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Career Workshops
Eva adds a Training and Registration system that will allow employees to sign up for career development courses
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Community Events
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• Community Events will be the site’s Calendar tool– Shows internal and
external upcoming community events
– Open publishing so end users can add their own events
News & Views
The Career, Health & Wellness site needs a News application for announcements and bulletins pertaining to career development and health. Eva opens up publishing so that all users can contribute to News & Views
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Earthquake Safety
Eva adds a Blog to the site that will focus on safety procedures and earthquake preparedness for all the CU branches
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Health & Wellness
A Knowledge Centre for FAQ and health and wellness tips. End users can contribute any tips or articles they find.
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Healthy Recipes
An area for employees to share their healthy recipes with the rest of the organization
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Mash-up of Information
• Eva adds a widget to the home page that shows a mash-up of the latest content published to each of the site’s applications– Eva sets the widget listing to show the top 6 advertised items
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Calendar Feed• Heather wants to be able to see
all the upcoming month’s events from the site’s home page– Eva pulls in a feed from the
Community Events Calendar and chooses the mini-calendar format
– She places the mini-calendar below the navigation menu
– The widget automatically rotates every month, showing new events as they are added
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Content Feeds
• Eva adds a content feed from the Employee Services area– It automatically pulls the latest
documents and forms that are added to the application
– Content does not need to be advertised to be displayed
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External RSS Feed & Links
• Eva pulls in an RSS feed from a leading industry blog– This will keep employees up to
date with thought leaders in the credit union sector
• Eva also builds a content box with links to other popular credit union blogs and resources
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Message Boxes• Eva adds two message
boxes to the home page– One to announce the
goal of the Careers, Health and Wellness site
– The other to display herself as the manager of the site in case employees want to contact her with questions or feedback
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Instant Messaging
“Not bad for one afternoon of work” thinks Eva as she uses chat to send Heather a link to the new Careers, Health and Wellness site she created for the Buzz.
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A Day in the Life of an IntranetA Day in the Life of an Intranet is a blog post series by Rachel Lai of Intranet
Connections that explores how employees at WCSCU interact with their intranet, The Buzz, during the course of a day in the office.
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