Operations

In this section the resources listed in Chapters 9-15 are listed  in the sequence they appear in the book. Some resources which appear in duplicate in more than one chapter in the book have been excluded

Chapter 9 Establishing the Intranet Team

Job titles for intranet managers

Jane McConnell’s commentary on job titles for intranet managers

What Every Intranet Team Should Know

This is written by James Robertson at Step Two Designs Step Two Designs

What’s an intranet manager’s career paths

Mark Morrell’s discussion on these issues

Chapter 10 Managing Intranet Projects

6×2 Methodology

James Robertson of Step Two Designs has written a report on a project methodology for intranet development.

Risk Management for IT Projects

A  comprehensive handbook

Manage It! Your guide to pragmatic project management,
Some very practical ideas on IT project management

Chapter 11 Evaluating Risks

Risk management

A good introduction from Wikipedia

Chapter 12 Conforming to Compliance Requirements

EU Data Privacy legislation

Chapter 13 Enhancing the User Experience

Rocket Surgery Made Easy

A very practial approach to usability testing, but not specifically about intranets

Intranet Usability

A series of reports from the Nielsen Norman Group that set out the basic principles of intranet usability

Usability.gov

A US Government sponsored website on all aspects of usability

Web Accessibility: practical advice for the library and information professional

Excellent practical advice on web accessibility issues

Information Provider’s Guide

A web site developed for the management of EU web sites

Web Accessibility Initiative

The Web Accessibility Initiative website is the definitive source of resources on accessibility compliance

Chapter 14 Marketing the Intranet

The ‘Boris’ intranet case study of the City of Casey

A case study from Step Two Designs

Intranet Innovation Awards and Intranet Design Annual

Good examples of intranet marketing can be found in the reports of the Intranet Innovation Awards, published by Step Two Designs and in the  Intranet Design Annual reports  from the Nielsen Norman Group:

Chapter 15 Measuring User Satisfaction

Intranet Benchmarking Forum

Details of the membership benefits offered by the Intranet Benchmarking

The Intranet Review Toolkit

The Intranet Review Toolkit is a heuristic intranet benchmarking methodology developed by James Robertson

World Wide Intranet Benchmarking Challenge

Information about the World Wide Intranet Benchmarking Challenge