Mark Morrell Intranet Pioneer

BT Intranet SharePoint 2010 examples

I have read a lot about what SharePoint 2010 can do but I have seen few examples of it being used with an intranet.  When I was the BT Intranet manager I was heavily involved in the strategy, plans and implementation of SP2010.  It was the biggest change to BT’s intranet since it’s creation.  It is a huge programme as BT migrates all its existing content from the publishing tools it is using now for document and content management as well as collaborative tools like wikis and blogs.  I’m going to show you examples of how SP2010 is being used on BT’s intranet.  These were shown to Intranet Benchmarking Forum members at the SP2010 Special Interest Group.

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BT’s Knowledge Management and Collaboration (KMC) programme has formal BT Board approval and has published its strategy setting out the priorities and timelines.  The KMC programme has a governance model so the implementation is effective, well managed and you can see how the different boards fit together and their responsibilities.

First priority has been on sharing knowledge more easily.  You can choose SP2010′s people finding tool from an index list on the global navigation bar at the top of every page on the BT Intranet.

This links to MyProfile which is like the existing Directory but has flexibility for you to add more information about yourself to help people.  By clicking on ‘Browse in organisation chart’ you can move from MyProfile to MySite and can see how your role fits within BT and relates to other people.

MySite has several tabs including one for Whereabouts so people can see what you are doing.  This information is automatically downloaded from your Outlook calendar.  Another tab, Overview, enables people to see topics and skills you can help others with.

MySite content shows to people with the right permissions what you have published in SP2010.  This helps people to find others who have a shared interest without any extra effort needed by you.

People using SP2010 for the first time will go to the Welcome page for SP2010.  We don’t mention the technology in the title but what it helps people to do.  There is a lot of information shown but new users say this is what they need at this stage.

You can request to publish on a TeamSite for project work or document sharing.  It will extend to other needs as SP2010 replaces existing publishing tools and what activity they help people to do.

There is a help site for anyone using SP 2010.  It helps anyone using SharePoint 2010 for anything rather than just publishing.

All these examples are shown in this slide presentation.