Blog: Intranet

Bring People to Your Portal Painlessly

There’s one website I read nearly every day, and that's MIT Technology Review. The site emails me between 3:00 and 4:00 am, usually well after I’ve shut down my computer for the evening, with a list and brief summary of interesting stories. This is one of the first emails I open when I log back into my computer in the morning and, more often than not, it baits me over to the MIT Technology Review site.

We just received an email saying that our proposal "Portal 2.0: Using Social Software to Connect Geographically Dispersed Teams" has been accepted to be presented at the Web2forDev conference this September, scheduled during e-Agriculture week. So after DrupalCon, I’m off to Rome to present the Drupal powered intranet package we’ve been developing :) !

Handle Your Content More Intelligently

There are smarter ways to handle your events than with a classic calendar on groupwise. We recently installed the MIT Timeline module for CommNET, a staff intranet at The World Bank that helps its geographically disperse teams communicate better. Here is a screencast by Ric Castro, the site's lead architect, that shows how he uses Timeline to nicely handle multi-day events and run quick filters. Here at Development Seed Jeff has been working on this module a lot and is maintaining it for Drupal 5.