Steptwo published a very interesting article on the prevalent use of the intranet home page (and best practices associated with them).
James Robertson identifies 7:
- To highlight the news
- To access to inland
- To highlight key applications
- To highlight key information
- To promote the internal culture
- Internal Marketing
- For collaboration tools
Then shows an example for each role (but below are two):


I find the comments very good article, but I forgot to another role, namely collector of contributions coming from the community: it can accommodate the home page automatically the last things produced within the different spaces for sharing .
Omit this role is to forget that the intranet is based partly on a series of sharing and collaboration capabilities that are worth highlighting as emergent behavior.
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Your observation is' absolutely right. I understand if 7 points are the result of analysis of the state of the art, because 'in this case everything is explained as a photo intended to yellow very soon ...
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Links to articles FF Luisa Carrada that encourage you to review emails to avoid the idea of depravity, and you do not read your post?
This article is full of typos.
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Maddai. ;)
Rob.
Eh, you're right. I must say I ever really betrayed by haste. Remedy now, thank you.