scott county intranet …the content and data behind it

Scott County Intranet

…the content and data behind it

Scott County Iowa – Mitch Tollerud

Presentation and Discussion• Please share your

own intranet experiences

• Intranets

• XAMPP

• MySQL


Intranet

• Not intended for public use

• Less attention to “tidiness” than Internet site

• Resource minded

• Testing environment

• Internal DNS setup for “intranet”


Audience

• Staff

• Internal

• Captive

• Browser/OS Standards

• All county browsers startup homepage is http://intranet


Directory

• Employee directory

• Name, title, department, phone (internal extension and outside line)

• End date & reason

• Photos

• Birthday in database, but not listed here


Directory Future

• Email

• May grow to include voluntarily submitted personal information– bulletin board– Facebook style status message


Birthdays

• Forecasts ten day birthday

• Features “today” and “weekend”

• Updated from directory database

• Charter service


Calendar

• Newest Feature on intranet

• Events, Holidays, Training, Retirement parties…

• Upcoming Events or Calendar Grid

• “Add to Outlook” feature

• Will combine departments for “master” calendar view


Daily Tidbits

• Staff maintained pieces of information updated weekly– Monday FSS– Tuesday Health Benefits (HR)– Wellness Wednesdays– Green Thursdays


Features

• Pre-created html or php content chunks

• Managed with start and end date

• Appear and disappear on schedule


PIP

• Productivity Innovation Program

• Improve the efficiency of operations, safety, delivery of service and quality of work life.

• Every January proposals are reviewed by a selection committee and up to five employees are presented with $250 saving bonds.


Other

• Streaming webcams• Weather (XML RSS)• Local lunch menus• Timesheet vs. Payday week• Code of Iowa• ISAC• Media Links (RSS)• Grant Info


HR

• Internal Job Openings

• Forms

• Benefits

• Training

• Employee Profile


Committees

• Web Team

• Employee Recognition

• Wellness

• GIS

• Green Team

• United Way


Employee Recognition

• Employee of the Quarter

• Exemplifies the Scott County PRIDE philosophy.

• Participate in outside endeavors contribute to our community.


United Way

• All events

• Committee members

• Dessert Raffle

• “Intrabay” Auction

• Links to Campaign website and materials


Bulletin Board

• Policy

• Few restrictions

• Types of items

• Self submitted

• Moderated

• Can only delete

• Limited to 2 months

• Auto links


Bulletin Board Future

• Unmoderated

• MySQL

• Editable

• Comments

• Categories– Inter-departmental freecycling


Social Networking

• Self maintained employee profile– Status messages– Bulletin board notices and comments


Migrate to Internet

• “Can this be on the Internet?”– HR internal postings, policies,

benefits, union contracts, pay plan and more.

– FSS mail report– Some Committees

• Transparency• Staff access from home


Transparency

• Scott County Sunshine Review Profile:– http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/

Scott_County%2C_Iowa• Evaluation of Iowa Counties:

– http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Evaluation_of_Iowa_county_websites

• What information should counties disclose on their websites?– http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/

County_websites

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Evaluation_of_Iowa_county_websites

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Evaluation_of_Iowa_county_websites


Flat Files

• Has a place

• Delimited (Tab)

• Easily edit from Excel

• Easily load, parse, edit and display with web scripting language.


XAMPP

• http://www.apachefriends.org• Easy to install distribution for

developers to get into the world of Apache.

• Default configuration is not secure enough for a production environment

• Download• Install


XAMPP Package

• The distribution for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.

• Apache, MySQL, PHP + PEAR, Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql.


Apache

• The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to as Apache is a web server.

• notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone

• As of March 2009 Apache served over 46% of all websites and over 66% of the million busiest


Perl

• Scripting Language


PHP

• PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.

• PHP generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating web pages as output.

• PHP can be deployed on most web servers, many operating systems and platforms, and can be used with many relational database management systems.


MySQL

• MySQL is popular for web applications and acts as the database component of the LAMP software stack.

• Its popularity for use with web applications is closely tied to the popularity of PHP, which is often combined with MySQL.

• Flickr, Facebook, Wikipedia, Google (though not for searches) and YouTube use MySQL for its data storage and logging of user data.


PHPMyAdmin

• phpMyAdmin is an open source tool written in PHP

• Intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web.

• Various tasks such as creating, modifying or deleting databases, tables, fields or rows; executing SQL statements; or managing users and permissions


PHP-MySQL Tutorial

• http://www.hosting.vt.edu/tutorials/phpmysql/


WordPress

• “WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.”

• Local

• Move between hosted – local

• http://wordpress.org

http://wordpress.org/

http://wordpress.org/


WikiMedia

• MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia.

• Now used by several other projects and wikis

• Can install in local environment

• http://www.wikimedia.org

• http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

http://www.wikimedia.org/

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki


Discussion

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scott county intranet …the content and data behind it

Documents

scott county intranet

intranet slide

comments slide

schedule slide

scott county pride philosophy

months auto links slide

master calendar view

intranet events