{"id":672,"date":"2010-10-11T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlitter.itgroove.net\/2010\/10\/11\/sharepoint-homepage-dashboard-suggestions\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T12:24:00","slug":"sharepoint-homepage-dashboard-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2010\/10\/11\/sharepoint-homepage-dashboard-suggestions\/","title":{"rendered":"SharePoint HomePage Dashboard Suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClassDBD02CC2F3B04B488569827E97CE1F40\">\n<p>Somebody asked in the Microsoft forums today and I figured I would share my answer here in case it helped someone along the way.<\/p>\n<h2>The Question<\/h2>\n<p>Anyone have any thoughts on what kind of content is good for a corporate SharePoint portal home page? The following are some things I can things of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Company News (or News)<\/li>\n<li>Company Calendar<\/li>\n<li>List of Site Collection or Sites current user can access to<\/li>\n<li>Useful links<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any input is appreciated.<\/p>\n<h2>My Answer<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 11pt\">Hey there,<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>First off, it&#8217;s always difficult to manage *how much* content to display on a homepage\/dashboard as you can quickly smother users with information as well. So, while I have a number of suggestions below, pay careful attention to defining a &#8216;top 10&#8217; list perhaps of those that are important and those that maybe could be placed somewhere else. In fact, on my company&#8217;s home page, there is very little there so as not to overwhelm &#8211; but what is there are icons\/links to other dashboards where one can get more information. For example, if you wanted to list the weather on the home page, if your company exists in one location &#8211; fine, but the weather on the home page. But if your company stretched across 6 different cities, consider instead having an icon for &#8220;Weather&#8221; that takes the folks to another web part page where you display the weather for all regions there, etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about managing the screen real estate. And to that effect, you may want to look at Christophe Humberts &#8216;Easy Tabs&#8217; as a way to show more, in less space. In fact, I blogged about his latest effort in Version 5 here, with some examples of home pages and content that was included and manipulated &#8211; <a href=\"\/archive\/2010\/07\/27\/easy-tabs-rock-v5-beta-is-solid.aspx\">\/archive\/2010\/07\/27\/easy-tabs-rock-v5-beta-is-solid.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to your list of items to consider (Again, don&#8217;t bloat, be specific). By the way, I call these &#8220;anchors&#8221; &#8211; as in anchors to draw folks to keep coming back to your portal\/intranet as we need to continue to encourage staff to go to that one place (SharePoint) where they can catch a glimpse of what is due today, this week and what is going on with the company &#8211; email stinks for that.<\/p>\n<h3>Suggested Anchors:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Submit Feedback<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; to me, this is the most important one. You want your portal to be successful and for people to come back. So you should &#8220;listen&#8221; to them. Provide a form they can fill out with questions like &#8220;what would you like to see here or how can we improve the home page?&#8221; And be *Prompt* to thank them for the comments and if the idea has merit, incorporate it quickly.<\/li>\n<li>The Weather<\/li>\n<li>Fun stuff &#8211; Dilbert daily comic, other reasons to not necessarily make the portal all about business<\/li>\n<li>Lunch Menu &#8211; if you are in a large company and have a cafeteria, provide a link to the lunch specials. At one client, that is BY FAR the most popular link on their site \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>Search<\/li>\n<li>Company Mission<\/li>\n<li>Employee Responsibilities<\/li>\n<li>Links to important tools such as gotomeeting\/livemeeting login information<\/li>\n<li>Clickable Site Map (graphical display of your Intranet as many users will not understand how SharePoint navigates)<\/li>\n<li>Announcements (or better yet, use a blog and Word as the blog editor and show the 5 latest blog\/news posts on the home page)<\/li>\n<li>Say &#8220;hi&#8221;. SharePoint will show the name, but consider greeting them with a &#8220;good morning, good afternoon&#8221;, instead<\/li>\n<li>Date\/Time<\/li>\n<li>Stock Ticker<\/li>\n<li>Latest company press releases<\/li>\n<li>Industry News Feed<\/li>\n<li>Need Help?<\/li>\n<li>Link: Corporate Policies and Procedures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Rotating Features:<\/h3>\n<p>For some random content, that changes daily or on each page view, consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About Department X<\/li>\n<li>Meet Sean, our new Marketing Directory (complete with picture and short bio, contact info)<\/li>\n<li>Event Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope that helps get you rolling.<\/p>\n<p>Sean<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody asked in the Microsoft forums today and I figured I would share my answer here in case it helped someone along the way. The Question Anyone have any thoughts on what kind of content is good for a corporate SharePoint portal home page? 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