Intranet Log-In Instructions

Many people have had difficulties logging in to the CoT intranet. To log-in, you must type the OnePurdue namespace followed by your career account username.

In the username field the format is: ”onepurdue\username“

Try it here at the home page of the intranet: https://share.tech.purdue.edu/

Intranet Example – how it’s being used by student services.

The student services group is using a WIKI discussion on the intranet to plan and collaborate on Cognos report needs.

They’re working at deciding which reports they need, and what fields are required for each report.

Check it out here: https://share.tech.purdue.edu/Operations_Administration/Student_Services/Cognos%20Reports/Forms/AllPages.aspx

Intranet How-To Series

As the new CoT Intranet is starting to be accessed by faculty and staff, we’ve been working on some how-to videos to show some of the basic tasks that will be preformed online. There are four videos being launched now:

• Logging-in and basic navigation
• How to upload documents
• Request member access to a site
• Using calendars online and viewing them in Outlook

View the four videos here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=70DC5767EB196F9E

Let us know if you’d benefit from a specific how-to video by commenting on this post. We’re planning videos on creating surveys and customizing lists next.

New CoT Intranet Coming Soon – What is SharePoint?

The marketing communications team will soon be implementing an intranet for the college of technology. The intranet will be a Microsoft SharePoint site.

What is a SharePoint site?

A SharePoint site is a Web site that provides a central storage and collaboration space for documents, information, and ideas. A SharePoint site is a tool for collaboration, just like a telephone is a tool for communication, or a meeting is a tool for decision making. A SharePoint site helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. For example, a SharePoint site can help you:

* Coordinate projects, calendars, and schedules.
* Discuss ideas and review documents or proposals.
* Share information and keep in touch with other people.

SharePoint sites are dynamic and interactive — members of the site can contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment on or contribute to other people’s.

We’re still in the planning stages, but you can visit the site now. Log in with your career account username and password. In the username dialog box, you must type in the onepurdue domain using the format “onepurdue\username”.
https://share.tech.purdue.edu/

The Six Cs of Killer Web Content

By Gerry McGovern. Gerry offers some great tips on writing for the web, and offers some statistics on web readership and usability. Enjoy!

Visit ragan.com to read the article.

Adding Content to the Rich Text Fields for Directory Data, Submit News, Etc.

Why not to use Word

Using any word-processor with our webpage editor is not a good thing to do.
Microsoft Word is not a standard, everyone should not use it and our editor should not be expected to cope with what it produces. A Word document cannot be pasted into any other proprietary word-processor and look just the same – our editor is no different.

Here is why any word-processor – including Open Office – should not be used.

This text was written in Open Office then copied and pasted into our editor. Right now it looks okay.

 

 

If you click the HTML tab though you will see what the real code looks like:

That is what just 2 short lines produced. If you have written a long entry then it becomes a mess of tags – and if just one tag does not get closed properly – your page looks bad. It’s a LOT of tags there and you would need to dig through each one to find the unclosed tag.

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This is almost identical text written directly into our editor. It looks similar.

 

 

Clicking the HTML tab shows only a few tags:

 

Because there are less tags it is easier to see if one has gone wrong.

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We recommend that you:

• write directly to our editor
• use either a plain text editor then post to our editor and format the text
• use a desktop client

Just don’t use Word – or expect to see and have to fix mistakes.

RSS Feeds Explained

This is a great video explaining what RSS feeds are, how to find them and what to do with them. Enjoy!

One more thing… I like to add my feeds to Outlook. There is a folder called “RSS Feeds” in Outlook 2007 that makes this easy.