Whether at work or outside of work, we usually need to collaborate with others.
This collaboration can take many forms:
storing documents
organizing documents
sharing documents
creating and filling out forms
protecting documents and data from prying eyes
managing access to documents and data
finding documents and data
Enterprises enable this kind of collaboration by creating an intranet. Users must log into this intranet, quickly and easily find the documents and data they need, revise them, save them, and share them out to others on their project teams. Intranet administrators create teams and set aside workspaces for those teams.
Setting up this type of intranet does NOT have to be hard nor does it have to be expensive!
Plone is a longstanding, secure, open source web content management system that lets you create intranets like this.
In our interactive, hands-on tutorial we will cover how to:
install Plone on a brand new virtual machine
create a website using Plone
turn that website into an intranet
create user accounts
create user groups
create team workspaces
grant access to workspaces to the right group(s)
create and organize documents, files, and forms in workspaces
test the security of the intranet's access restrictions
And best of all: you will be able to do this for volunteer groups and any communities you're a part of.
What you'll need:
a laptop(any operating system)
Characteristics of an Intranet
What are the general characteristics of an intranet?
Who collaborates?
individuals
teams
When we collaborate, we often do so using documents:
“documents”(files, images, website pages)
forms
We organize documents using folders, which can contain other folders, and so on.
Characteristics of an Intranet