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The Elements of Intranet Style

By Eric Brown and James W.Candler

Excerpts From

Chapter Three

"Now the Nuts and Bolts..."

MAKE SURE THERE IS A THERE THERE

What kind of pages should I be thinking of?
A basic list of pages is a good place to start. This is the backbone of a typical corporate Intranet:

PUBLICATIONS

Marker Pages

- Splash Pages

Content Pages

- Mission Statements

- Organizational Charts

- Messages/Updates

- Department-Specific Services

- Presentations

- Web Seminars

- Newsletters

- Manuals

Databases

- FAQs

- Phones and Faxes

- Key Dates

- Forms

Archives

- Presentations

- Newsletters

- Annual Reports

- Financial Documents

APPLICATIONS

HR Employee Self Service

- Benefit Selections

- Address Changes

- Beneficiary Changes

- Retirement Calculator

- Phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile Updates

Managers' People Services

- Hire/Terminate Employees

- Promote/Change Status

- Salary Adjustments

- Incentives & Bonus

- MBO Setting and Tracking

- On-line Intranet Performance Reviews

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The Authors

Eric Brown founded his consulting firm Communication Associates in 1980. His clients include major Fortune 500 companies who use his presentation design, communication training, writing services, and web expertise in many contexts. He is author of Throw Away Your Pencil: Writing with a Word Processor (Prentice-Hall), of The FedEx Personnel Division Intranet Style Book, is a Houghton Mifflin Finalist, a writer for Hearst publications, and many professional journals.

James W. Candler is currently Vice President of Personnel Systems and Support at Federal Express where he has worked for the last 18 years. In that time he has been responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of the company's on-line, reql-time human resource information system called PRISM. PRISM has resulted in all employees being able to access personal, benefit, and similar HR information at the stroke of a key. Most recently he has led the development of Personnel.link, the FedEx Personnel Division corporate Intranet.He has presented across the nation and written frequently for IHRIM.link: A Publication of the Association of Human System Professionals where he has also served as editor.

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