MIS382-Chapter 9 Promote Your Intranet

What are Your Goals for Your Demo?

• Recruit users as an audience for web publishers
• Recruit web publishers and others for the team

Build the Demo

• Set up the computer
  • Computer
  • TCP/IP
  • Internet Access
  • Browser
  • HTML Authoring tool
  • Graphics tool
  • Caching tool
• Learn HTML and other tools
• Decide if you need an introduction
• Determine what to include in the demo
  • Identify Needs
    • Brainstorm
    • Identify contacts
    • Contact business partners
  • Involve Others
• Build sample application
  1. Create a home page for your department
  2. Create an employee locator
  3. Set up a variety of HTML pages
  4. Tie HTML pages to databases
  5. Add some graphics, sound, and video clips
• Build the real intranet
  • Phone directory
  • IS information
  • Training schedules and registration
  • Software downloads

Present the Demo

1. Schedule the demo
2. Tailor the demo to your audience
   
   1. Sample Presentation
   2. Opening and Introduction to the Internet and WWW
   3. Business Sites
   4. Education Sites
   5. Government Sites
   6. Shopping Sites
   7. intranet "stuff"
3. Build enthusiasm
4. Answer questions and address concerns about the Internet and intranets:
   1. What will happen to productivity if we give employees access to the Internet?
   2. How secure is the Intranet?
   3. If we give employees access to all this information, won't they be harder to deal with?
   4. If we access the Internet, won't we bring in viruses?
   5. How much does it cost the company to access the Internet?
   6. How do I get my department in the Intranet?