Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Chapter 1. Building an Effective Intranet

One of the most common uses of SharePoint is as an organization's Intranet. While SharePoint has all of the critical ingredients within the platform to deliver a great solution, there is no out of the box template that delivers a complete solution. This often results in Intranet solutions that are underdeveloped and ineffective.

Building an effective Intranet starts with defining the overall goals and is followed by defining the information architecture, content and feature strategy, and user experience needed to support those goals. Common goals include the ability to deliver corporate communications, connect employees to increase collaboration, and to provide easy access to enterprise content and systems. ...