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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 CEO Blog page in the News and Events 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. This box of links connects you to important or often-used content. Hovering over this silver bullet on the web page displays an Editor menu. You can click New Post, which opens a text editor in the Workarea for you to create a new blog entry. You also can click Add Post below to do the same thing. Subscribe to receive a new blog in an RSS feed or sent by email. Open a text editor in the Workarea for you to write another blog entry. Edit an existing post. Clicking Edit opens a Workarea content editor. Delete a post. Create a permanent link to a specific blog post. Add a comment about the blog entry. It is posted below the entry for everyone to read. Edit an existing post. Clicking Edit opens a Workarea content editor. Delete a post. Create a permanent link to a specific blog post. Add a comment about the blog entry. It is posted below the entry for everyone to read. Click on this link to view the entire blog entry. Click on this link to view the entire blog entry. Click on this link to view the entire blog entry. Click on this link to see a list of blog entries from other months. Subscribe to receive a new blog in an RSS feed or sent by email. Subscribe to receive a new blog in an RSS feed or sent by email. 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. 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).

News & Events > CEO's Blog

The default CEO's Blog page (shown in the following figure) in the News & Events area is where your CEO communicates with the employees. For information about modifying this page, see Adding Entries to the CEO's Blog. Hover over a content block to see a description of how the HR 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 the CEO's Blog page in the News and Events 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.
Quick link navigation block

This box of links connects you to important or often-used content.
CEO Blog
You can do the following on the page:
  • Add a post. Clicking Add Post opens a Workarea content editor.
  • Edit an existing post. Clicking Edit opens a Workarea content editor.
  • Delete a post.
  • Create a permanent link to a specific blog post that you can access it via the URL in the browser’s address bar. (Most blog pages show only recent posts. After a post is moved off the blog’s front page, it is still accessible via this link.)
  • Subscribe to receive a new blog post in an RSS feed or sent by email.
  • View the current calendar month (dates with blog entries are highlighted), and other blog-related information .

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