“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 at the office.

1. 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 Unioninteract with their intranet, The Buzz, during the course of a day in the office. Eva Collins HR Administrator

2. 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. http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

3. 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 intranet http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

4. 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” http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

5. 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. http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

6. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

7. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

8. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

9. Career Workshops Eva adds a Training and Registration system that will allow employees to sign up for career development courses http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

10. Community Events http://blogs.intranetconnections.com 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

11. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

12. Earthquake Safety Eva adds a Blog to the site that will focus on safety procedures and earthquake preparedness for all the CU branches http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

13. Health & Wellness A Knowledge Centre for FAQ and health and wellness tips. End users can contribute any tips or articles they find. http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

14. Healthy Recipes An area for employees to share their healthy recipes with the rest of the organization http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

15. 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 from the various applications http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

16. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

17. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

18. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

19. 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 http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

20. 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. http://blogs.intranetconnections.com

21. 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. Subscribe to http://blogs.intranetconnections.com to receive the next post in the series