Group Announcements

The Group Announcements application is where you can post important news and pictures about your group. All announcements appear right on your intranet home page where members are sure to see it. Your members will read announcements daily. Make sure you always post something new and interesting to pique their interest. Here are some typical items our members post regularly:

· Welcome a new employee with a photo and a short write-up

· Announce a new customer, partner, or really big sale

· Trumpet a new company milestone, such as your 10,000th customer, or your 10th anniversary

· Announce an employee's marriage, or the birth of a child

· Keep employees informed of last quarter's financial results

· Notify everyone of the latest news or the next deadline

Announcements also features a rich text editor, enabling you to create customized announcements and newsletters for your group. You can cut and paste documents and web graphics into the editor and all the formatting and links will be preserved. Font sizes and colors, margin settings, even tables and pictures will all appear right in your intranet site.

Online Discussions

Use the Online Discussions forum to post and generate ideas, ask questions and conduct live discussions at any time from anywhere.

Discussions are divided into forums that enable focused discussions. Within each forum, you might find several different message threads relating to the topic of the forum.

Here are some discussion forums you might create:

· Generate ideas on marketing strategies for your new product

· Solicit input from your group on where to have the next company outing

· Create a corporate suggestion box and have management respond to the ideas

· Create a forum where people can request office supplies

You can choose individuals to participate in a discussion or you can open it up to the entire membership. Either way, you'll find that discussions are fun as well as productive.

Email

My Mail Box is a full-featured, web-based email program. Because it's built in to your intranet, you can conveniently send and receive email at the same time you're doing other work at your intranet.

My Mail Box Features

The intranet administrator decides whether to allow members to create email accounts using your site's URL. Once an administrator enables email for your intranet, members can create their personal email accounts.

When you set up a Mailbox account, you get a personalized email address and you see My Mail Box at the left of your intranet. Simply click My Mail Box to access your intranet email. You can create folders to store email messages and forward mail from other POP3 accounts to your intranet email account. Each member can store up to 10 MB of email, which does not count toward the storage limit for your intranet.