This slide deck illustrates how you can use SharePoint to build your organization's Intranet Portal, complete with Project Sites, Department Sites. Document Management Repository, Employee Directory and more.

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HOW TO BUILD AN INTRANET
PORTAL IN SHAREPOINT
USING OUT OF THE BOX FEATURES

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About Me
 Gregory Zelfond
 10+ years of experience with SharePoint
 SharePoint Advocate, blogger
 Love to solve business problems using code-free, out of
the box SharePoint configurations
 Owner of SharePoint Maven

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About SharePoint Maven
I HELP ORGANIZATIONS TO UNLOCK
THE POWER OF SHAREPOINT
MIGRATION CONSULTING TRAINING

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Agenda
– Intranet Portal Objectives
– Elements of Intranet Portal
– Demo
– Q & A

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What is the problem you are trying to solve?
What is Intranet?
“An internal website that helps employees get stuff done”
 What does Intranet mean to you?
– Document Management System
– Department Sites
– Project Sites
– Wiki
– One Stop Shop for all Employees

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Things to keep in mind…
 SharePoint maturity within an organization
 Know your audience
 User Adoption & Training

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Why SharePoint?
 BEFORE
– Intranet Site/Pages (3rd party tool)
– File Shares/Network Drives (within company firewall)
– External sharing apps (DropBox)
– Project Management Software (3rd party Software-as-
a-Service/SaaS)
– Manual Processes/Forms (HR Onboarding, etc.)
– Employee Directory (Contacts) stored in Excel
– CRM managed in Excel

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Why SharePoint?, AFTER (a single platform)

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Intranet Portal Elements
1. Company Culture content
2. Collaboration content
3. Usability

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“Company Culture” Content
 News and Announcements
 Calendar of Events
 Company Contacts/Org Chart
 Pictures/Videos

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“Collaboration” Content
 Department Sites
 Project Sites
 Team Sites
 IT Help Desk
 Vacation Requests Approval
 Templates/Policies/Forms Library

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Usability
 (Friendly) Navigation
 Search (that makes sense)
 Social aspect (social media features)
 (Consistent) Branding

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Intranet Homepage

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Employee Directory

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Department Site

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IT Help Desk

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Sales (display Excel files)

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Policies Document Management System

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Project Management Office

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Project/Team Site

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Intranet Search

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“How To” Blog URLs
 How to create drop-down Navigation
 How to add SharePoint Tiles to your site
 How to manage SharePoint Implementation
 SharePoint Department Site Example
 How to add a Video in SharePoint
 How to create an Org Chart in SharePoint
 How to create a SharePoint Project Site

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SharePoint BEGINNER Training
 2 hour online sessions
 Beginner level SharePoint
 “How to” instructions for End Users
 Flexible schedule
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SharePoint POWER USER Training
 Course 1: Introduction to SharePoint Information Architecture
 Course 2: Introduction to SharePoint Metadata
 Course 3: Introduction to SharePoint Document Management
 Course 4: Introduction to SharePoint Search
$199 (per group per course)
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SharePoint WEBINARS
 How to manage projects in SharePoint using out of the box features
 How to build amazing Intranet Sites in SharePoint using out of the box
features
 How to improve SharePoint User Adoption – practical tips and industry
best practices
 How to manage migration to SharePoint
 SharePoint hacks you can’t live without
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Need help with SharePoint?
 SharePoint Site Configuration and Customization
 Document Migration to SharePoint
 SharePoint Implementation Strategy
 SharePoint Training
 SharePoint User Adoption
 SharePoint Governance
 SharePoint Project Management

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