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


I find the comments very good article, but I forgot to another role, namely to the collector of contributions coming from the community: the home page it can accommodate the latest in automatic things produced within the different spaces for sharing .
Omitting this role is to forget that the intranet is based partly on a number of features for sharing and collaboration that is good to highlight as emergent behavior.
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what you say is' absolutely right. I did not understand if the 7 points are the result of an analysis of the state of the art, because 'in this case everything is explained as a picture intended to yellow very soon ...
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Links on FF articles Luisa Carrada advising to reread the email, to avoid the idea of depravity, and you re-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. Now remedy, thank you.