		Mastering Intranet and Internet Technology

Presentation of the Course

The Course Book

An Internet, Intranet and Extranet Resource.

Course Internet Site

All the URLs listed in the book are live and can be viewed from the course web site at:-

Mastering_Intranet_and_Internet_Technology .

Scenario:-

You have been charged with Creating an Intranet.

You realise you have the following needs:-

to know what an Intranet and an Extranet is
to know what services are available
to know how the services can be used to promote your organisation, either internally or externally.
to know what impact an Intranet and an Extranet will have on existing systems.
to know what impact an Intranet and an Extranet will have on the organisation's staff.
to know the organisation's goals and objectives.
to know each department's, group's or project's goals.
to know what existing systems are doing.
to know what customers, clients, vendors and/or supplies need.

We start be defining and clarifying some terms, then look at what's available and finally how to use and manage the systems we need.

We'll look also at some vendors' vision of the Internet and Intranets.

Self Awareness

The Internet provides a wide range of tools for handling data and information.

A tradesman coming to a job will select the appropriate tools to do that job. So must we when we approach the job of setting up an Intranet and/or providing data to the Internet.

A requirement, therefore, is to have a knowledge of all the tools available, and the expertise to select the ones that will do that job. Knowing what not to use is as important as knowing what tool to use.

So, coming to the job, we need to know lot about the job. This will require a knowledge of our organisation and its objectives as well.

URLs - Uniform Resource Locators

See URL - the Uniform Resource Locator in the Appendix