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Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Breadcrumbs help you see where you are on the eIntranet site. The breadcrumb in the figure indicates that it is the My Profile page in the My Intranet area. Breadcrumbs also are navigation links. You can click Home to go to the home page, or other links on the breadcrumb trail to go to those pages. Your profile is where you set information about you as a member of the eIntranet community. A tabbed dialog box lets you define data such as name, contact information, location, categories to which you belong (for example, Marketing, and Press Release),and the activities that you want to follow in your Activity Stream, or by email or SMS. The calendar in My Profile is your own personal calendar. The Groups page in My Profile lets you make requests to join a group. If you are a group moderator or an Administrator, you also can create new groups and perform other functions that other people cannot, such as deleting a post. Note: When you click on a group, your breadcrumb bar indicates that you enter the Groups area and are no longer in the Users area. Colleagues are people with whom you establish a friendly or professional connection. This is often a subset of the entire eIntranet community; people that you interact with on a professional basis. To connect to a colleague, search for the colleague in the directory, and click on Add as Colleague. This sends a request to the person to approve or ignore the connection request. If approved you can follow your colleague's status updates and activities (if profile settings allow). Opens your blog site where you can write your web log. Create your own personal landing page, also called a Dashboard. You can choose from among many widgets to customize your page. Upload documents that you want to share with everyone, just your colleagues, selected colleagues, or keep them private. Keep track of your favorite web pages. Enter (or cut and paste) a URL, enter a title, and click Add to create another favorite item. Create photo albums and upload your photos, which you can share with everyone, just your colleagues, selected colleagues, or keep them private. Enter some text (referred to as micro-messaging) that tells others what you are doing. When you click Share, your text displays on RSS feeds and Activity Streams that are set up to follow your status. Click on the Share button to let others see the status you typed in the field to the left. This tab shows the messages that are in the public view. The most recent entries are at the top. This tab shows only messages between you and a colleague. The most recent entries are at the top. This tab shows the activities of colleagues with whom you have connected and set to receive their status updates. The most recent entries are at the top. This tab shows the statuses that you have entered with the most recent one at the top. This tab displays your contact information. To edit it, click on Edit Profile. Click on this icon to add a comment to this posting. Delete this comment from the Public Messages area. You must have administrator privileges to delete a comment that is not your own. Post your own comments to the Public Messages board. the most recent post appears at the top. The Application Administrator wrote "I will be at the meeting in person, coming in from headquarters." and then clicked Add Comment. Delete this comment from the Public Messages area. You must have administrator privileges to delete a comment that is not your own. Delete this comment from the Public Messages area. You must have administrator privileges to delete a comment that is not your own. Delete this comment from the Public Messages area. You must have administrator privileges to delete a comment that is not your own. Click on this icon to add a comment to this posting. Click on this icon to add a comment to this posting. Click on this icon to add a comment to this posting. Logout of page editing mode. Click Department Wizard to create or delete a department for your intranet. View the Site Map of your intranet. Opens the Welcome Guide page. Enters the Workarea of the CMS400.NET, which gives you powerful customization of the web site beyond the "out-of-the-box" eIntranet V2. See the consolidated Ektron CMS400.NET Reference for information about the functionality that created the eIntranet V2. Use the Search box to look for items on the eIntranet site. You can click on the tabs below to search the entire site, or search for colleagues, groups, or activities. Click here to go to your inbox to read your messages. Opens your profile page where you can customize your intranet information. Click on this icon to add a comment to this posting. Delete this comment from the Public Messages area. You must have administrator privileges to delete a comment that is not your own. 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. Use Site Navigation to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet. Breadcrumbs help you see where you are on the eIntranet site. Breadcrumbs also are navigation links. You can click Home to go to the home page, or other links on the breadcrumb trail to go to those pages. Typing a term in this Search box looks for content on the HR page and the pages that are under its departmental domain. Create links to important or often-used content that are valuable to the HR department. This content block uses the ei_Collection widget to show a list of links to content selected from the CMS400.NET. Communicate important dates and events to members of the HR department using the ei_UpcomingEvents widget to show a list of scheduled calendar events. Show a list of content using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the type of content is text entry with the newest announcements at the top. You can choose to automatically scroll the content. Show a list of content using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the type of content is text entry with the newest entry at the top. A teaser shows the first few lines of the job posting. You can choose to automatically scroll the content. Show a list of content using the ei_ListSummary widget. In this case, the type of content is forms with the newest and highest rated form links 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).

My Intranet > My Profile

The My Profile page (shown in the following figure) in the My Intranet area is where you can enter information about you that lets you connect and collaborate with other people in your organization. For information about setting up your profile, see Editing My Profile. Hover over a content block to see a description of how the My Profile page is constructed.

The following table describes each area of the page.
Block Function
Site Navigation Tools
(upper right)		 Use the Site Navigation tools to search the Ektron eIntranet site.  You also can log out of page edit mode, add a department page, view the site map, go to the Welcome Guide page, and enter the Workarea of the CMS400.NET.
Site Navigation Menus
(upper left)		 Use Site Navigation menus to go to Department pages, Employee Resources, News and Events, and your personal space on My Intranet.
Breadcrumb bar Breadcrumbs help you see where you are on the Ektron eIntranet site. The breadcrumb in the figure indicates that it is your profile page. Breadcrumbs also are navigation links. You can click Home to go to the home page, or other links on the breadcrumb trail to go to those pages.
Edit Profile

Your profile is where you set information about you as a member of the Ektron eIntranetcommunity. A tabbed dialog box lets you define data such as name, contact information, location, categories to which you belong (for example, Marketing, and Press Release),and the activities that you want to follow in your Activity Stream, or by email or SMS. For information about setting up your profile, see Editing My Profile.
Calendar The calendar in My Profile is your own personal calendar.
Groups The Groups page in My Profile lets you make requests to join a group. If you are a group moderator or an Administrator, you also can create new groups and perform other functions that other people cannot, such as deleting a post. Note: When you click on a group, your breadcrumb bar indicates that you enter the Groups area and are no longer in the Users area.
Colleagues Colleagues are people with whom you establish a friendly or professional connection. This is often a subset of the entire eIntranet community; people that you interact with on a professional basis. To connect to a colleague, search for the colleague in the directory, and click on Add as Colleague. This sends a request to the person to approve or ignore the connection request. If approved you can follow your colleague's status updates and activities (if profile settings allow).
Blog Create a blog that colleagues can read.
Dashboard Create your own personal landing page, also called a Dashboard. You can choose from among many widgets to customize your page.
Documents Upload documents that you want to share with everyone, just your colleagues, selected colleagues, or keep them private.
Favorites Keep track of your favorite web pages. Enter (or cut and paste) a URL, enter a title, and click Add to create another favorite item.
Photos Create photo albums and upload your photos, which you can share with everyone, just your colleagues, selected colleagues, or keep them private.
Status Pane

You can enter your own status (referred to as micro-messaging) and follow the statuses of others.

You can view statuses as follows using the status tabs:
  • Public Messages - Displays messages from every eIntranet member.
  • Private Messages - Displays messages only between you and another colleague.
  • Colleagues Activity - Displays the activities of the colleagues that you set to follow.
  • My Activity - Displays your past activity statuses.
  • Contact Information - Displays your contact information. To modify this, click on Edit Profile.
My Messages  

Messages from others community users arrive in your message box instantaneously when the author composes and sends it in their own My Messages page. The home page shows you when you have messages by a link located next to the My Profile links at the top.

Show me.

Click this link to see the My Messages page in your personal profile area. You can read and respond to the message or compose a new one. Additionally you can review messages you have sent or delete messages.

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