[Sigia-l] Employee page on your intranet (prady)

[Surla, Stacy M.]

Dynamic employee pages are a very good idea.  Here's one approach.
Take the notion of an employee "phonebook," which starts with certain
static HR info.  Then add whatever relevant dynamic info you can get
web services for (this will depend on what your enterprise tracks or
can find out about the employees, but might include the projects they
charge to, internal listservs they belong to, roles they play within
the CMS, documents they searched for recently, things they've published
through the intranet, upcoming or recent business travel, etc).  Make
it possible for employees to influence what shows up on their page
(e.g. if they publish their briefings and reports to a document
repository, then those show up and related keywords show up as
"expertise").  And/or let them add keywords or tags to their page.
Then add interactivity one level up that lets people search for other
people by these parameters, and produces clustered results.  One can
keep going on and on with these ideas.  

We do something like this at MITRE, and IBM has its famous Blue Pages.


~Stacy

Stacy Surla
Information Architect
MITRE Corp.


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Date: Tue,  1 Aug 2006 17:26:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Employee page on your intranet (prady)
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I've seen employee pages done a couple of ways. R&D people like blogs
and wiki
pages, and i would guess that marketing people like blogs (although
I've
experienced that they don't like wikis).

Currently, the STC chapter I'm in is putting up a new website, using
Expression
Engine's weblog to post content. It allows many different people to
interact
with different parts of the site as little or as much as they want.
People seem
to be really excited about it cuz it lets them be more involved in the
chapter
website.

There's a lot of initial setup and admin, but we're hoping that once
all the
kinks are worked out, that it will be less painful than the previous
version of
the website.

Theresa Putkey

Quoting sigia-l-request at asis.org:
> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 10:38:23 -0400
> From: prady <pradyotrai at gmail.com>
>
> Folks,
>
> I want to hear your ideas on how to build employee pages on the
> intranet. I am looking for new & innovative ideas on how to avoid
> building static pages, lack of proper controls and overhead of
> managing them. I am wondering if we can avoid the trap of building
> "talent databases", managed by "HR" folks, to get the same result.
>
> Any body worked on this area before? Is this an IA problem, or
something
> else?
>
> I want to explore if anyone is using search engines to "profile"
> employees, and build dynamic page. If so, I want to understand how
you
> build "texonomies" and "topics" for search indexing(?)
>
> Anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Prady