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Add a photo to the Photo Of The Day area to highlight a story or event, or recognize outstanding contributions from your work force, using the PhotoOfTheDay widget. You can add a caption, print, or email the photo. Use the Workarea to search the Intranet site. Login to create and edit content, such as adding a new department page, and customizing your eIntranet through the CMS400.NET Workarea. Display the activity of people and groups in your eIntranet with whom you have connected using the ei_ActivityStream widget . You can choose the types of information you want to see from your colleagues and groups, such as blogs, comments, micro-messaging status, and so on. Display news and content from outside your organization using the TwitterFeed widget. Keep in touch with what customers and others are saying about your product and services by setting the feed to show Tweets that are related to your company or industry. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Communicate important dates and events scheduled on the calendar to members of your entire organization using the ei_UpcomingEvents widget. The list of events is ordered from your next upcoming event to later events. Create links to important or often-used content that you want accessible to all people from the home page using the ei_Collection widget and selecting content from the CMS400.NET. See the latest Blog from the CEO on the home page using the RecentBlogPost widget. When the CEO creates a new entry in this blog, this teaser appears on the front page. Display important phone numbers you want accessible to everyone from the home page using the ei_ContentBlock widget. Display news items that affect your organization using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the items are News type content with the newest entry at the top. You can choose to automatically scroll the content. Display announcements to your organization using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the items are text entry type with the newest announcements at the top. You can choose to automatically scroll the content This content block uses the ei_UpcomingEvents widget to show a list of scheduled calendar events. Use this to communicate important dates and events to your employees. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Use the Workarea to search the Intranet site. Login to create and edit content, such as adding a new department page, and customizing your eIntranet through the CMS400.NET Workarea. This content block uses the ei_ActivityStream widget to show the activity of users and groups inside your eIntranet with whom you have connected. You can choose the types of information you want to see from your colleagues and groups. This content block uses the ei_PhotoOfTheDay widget to display an image file, scaled to fit. Highlight a story or event, and add a caption. People can print and email the posted picture. This content block uses the Twitter Feed widget to show status updates from people you have connected to using Twitter. Use this to stay connected with your customers. Set it to show tweets related to your company and stay informed about what others are saying about your product and services. This content block uses the ei_RecentBlogPost widget to display content entered into a blog. A teaser appears with the first few lines of the blog with a link to the blog page for the whole story. This content block uses the ei_Collection widget to show a list of links to content selected from the CMS400.NET. Create links to important or often-used content. This content block uses the ei_ContentBlock widget to show any content from the CMS400.NET. You also can add ratings for the content, links to Add to Favorites, Email, and Print, and comments submitted by logged-in visitors. This list shows important phone numbers. This content block uses the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is News with the newest entry at the top. You can choose to autmatically scroll the content. This content block uses the ei_ListSummary widget to show a list of content. In this case, the type of content is Announcements sorted in descending order: (Traffic, Pizza, Parking).

Getting Started with Ektron eIntranet

The Ektron eIntranet is built on Ektron's powerful CMS400.NET. 

What do you get with Ektron eIntranet?

The Ektron eIntranet site is ready to use with pages, templates, and easy customization. The Ektron eIntranet comes with the following:

eIntranet Area Description
Home Page The Ektron eIntranet home page displays dynamic up-to-date content from many sources of information, making it valuable for daily use. You can easily move, add, and delete this content using Ektron's PageBuilder technology, literally dragging and dropping the content wherever you want it.
Department
Landing Pages		 Manage content that is important to your departmental functions. Ektron eIntranet comes preloaded with department landing pages. You can add, change, or delete departments to match your organization.
Employee Resources

Give your people one area to find forms, policies, office and building maps, newsletters, and social networking forums. Ektron eIntranet lets you customize your human resources area to fit your company's needs.
News and Events

Keep the members of your intranet informed about industry news, special events, messages from the CEO and management. As your colleagues add new content, they automatically display in the news list.
My Intranet Lets you customize your profile and settings to deliver content that is important to you and your job.
Additional features
  • Over 50 types of widgets that you can drag and drop onto your Ektron eIntranet site pages.
  • Social media functionality for users and groups.
  • Secure login credentials through your current network authorization with Active Directory and LDAP, or through your own list of users.
  • Group privacy and distribution functions.
  • Micro-messaging notification system to email, cell phones (SMS), and on-page activity streams.
What can Ektron eIntranet do?

The Ektron eIntranet is ready to customize for your organization, using easy-to-use yet powerful PageBuilder technology. You can choose from several page templates and drag and drop blocks of functional content called widgets onto the page. Some widgets are so flexible, you can put what you want in them and display them at specified times or conditions.

The Ektron eIntranet lets you post the following:

  • Time-specific information such as upcoming events, activity streams, news, and announcements are easy to spot.
  • A "Photo Of The Day" calls attention to important achievements, events, or people in your company.
  • The CEO's blog keeps a direct line of communication with all employees.
  • Quick Reference Links and Phone Book block provide reference to important or often-needed information.
  • Twitter feeds also may be important to you to quickly hear from your customers and your market.
  • Ektron's standard widgets include CMS400.NET functionality such as Content, Search, Collections, and Blogs, and also many popular widgets like YouTube, Twitter, FaceBook, and more.
What benefits can my organization get from Ektron eIntranet?

The Ektron eIntranet is ready to help you and your employees achieve common business goals and increase operational efficiency by connecting your employees and growing your knowledge base through a collaborative and productive network.

  • Enable your employees to share their knowledge and experience with others in your company.
  • Establish collaborative project and social groups that provide open and accurate communication that is timely and relevant.
  • Post and display your activities, activities of your colleagues, and the activities of project or interest groups through on-page activity streams, Twitter feeds, RSS feeds, or email notification, which you can customize in your profile settings.
  • Enable blogging for more extensive management communication or human interest stories.
  • Provide access to documentation, photos, forms, and other assets. You can control access to individuals, to groups, or to everyone.
Ektron eIntranet Requirements:

Because this site is a powerful intranet for use inside firewalls, privileges are determined for each CMS400.NET user. Membership user functionality is not included for the Ektron eIntranet site.

  • Only CMS400.NET users have access to the Ektron eIntranet site.
  • Aliasing is enabled by default. Do not disable aliasing because it will cause errors in department pages.
  • Do NOT delete the Settings content block at Workarea > Content > Folders > Setup in CMS400.NET.
  • Do NOT delete the Settings Smartform.
  • You must maintain the taxonomy and folder structure.

You can find online help anywhere you see and click the help icon ().

To get the PDF version of the Ektron eIntranet documentation, click on Getting Started with Ektron eIntranet.

For complete information about Ektron's CMS400.NET, see the Ektron CMS400.NET Reference Manual.

For the latest versions of Ektron documentation, go to
http://www.ektron.com/documentation/

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