What Is An Intranet? – Why Would I Use One?
I’ll be doing a series on Intranets for small business, with this as an introductory post to give you the big picture. An Intranet, the online variety that I’m talking about, is a platform for a small business to use to share information online between employees, management, customers and even vendors.
When you sign up for an Intrante, or online office space, you get several features that are common to most all of them:
- Sharing of tasks
- Share calendars, appointments, meetings
- Document sharing for reading or for editing and updating
- Announcements section, like an online bulletin board
- Depending on Intranet vendor, other sharable features
Keep in mind, this is all online, so there is no software to install on your computer, and no network software to keep updated so all can have access. You can set up varying levels of permission to users, letting them see or edit only what you want them to. This gives you the ability to actually maintain files online that are specifically designated only for management, employee groups, or individuals.
In the next post about Intranets, I’ll introduce you to the one I highly recommend, as it also gives you the ability to create custom databases that can accomplish great things for your business.
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