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The Intranet Challenge: Keeping Content Fresh Cindy L. Chick Special Libraries Association June 11, 2002 The History of Intranet Development • Denial • Taking Control • Empowering Content Creators Lessons from a 1st Generation Intranets • Maintaining content is the biggest challenge • Technology shouldn’t be the ones maintaining content • Portals, content management systems etc. are all trying to solve this same problem Successful Intranets… • Empower content authors • Integrate database driven content • Include appropriate vendor content www.ektron.com Use the Tools you Already Have • For example - Outlook public folders http://www.intouchsoftware.com/ Products/OlLinker/OlLinker.htm Linking into Your Document Management System Successful Intranets… • Empower content authors • Integrate database driven content • Include appropriate vendor content How does it work? • Content is separated from the page design. • Information is pulled from a database and displayed on a web page. • Newest data reflected on the page without intervention Link information is stored in a SQL database. The links can be updated without touching the page... Can present the data in different ways. Update info in one place - in the database updates are then reflected everywhere. It’s also searchable.. Limitation: Each entry shown below consists of the same fields in the same order. Get the full functionality of an Access database The library catalog as a source for dynamic data... Don’t have a lot of technical expertise? • Products like Gossamer Threads – http://www.gossamer-threads.com • Find a consultant to help. Successful Intranets… • Empower content authors • Integrate database driven content • Include appropriate vendor content Let someone else keep the content current! It takes a village..