Investor Relations Website Design

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for February 18 is now online at:
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030218.html

Summary:
Individual investors are intimidated by overly complex IR sites and need
simple summaries of financial data. Both individual and professional
investors want the company's own story and investment vision.
	
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Usability Week 2003

   > New York City, March 17-21
   > London, March 24-28
   > San Francisco, May 12-16


Intranet Portals day  --  Announcing the speaker line-up

   > inside.ABB <

Arne Folkestad shares the usability, content, and business considerations
over several years of evolution of the ABB Group corporate portal, serving
146,000 employees in 100 countries.

   > Credit Suisse Portal <

Urs Buob of the central intranet department at Credit Suisse in Zurich
outlines how the Intranet team went about designing and building an
integrated portal to serve employees across all the bank's divisions.

   > Eversheds Extranet Portal <

Kevin Doolan, head of eStrategy for Eversheds, one of the world's
five largest law firms, shares his experience working with clients to
build their award-winning extranet portal. He will share business drivers
for the project, setting up a client advisory board, partnering with
content providers, using online collaboration tools, and strategies for a
successful portal launch.

  > HarperCollins Intraweb <

Joy Zigo of HarperCollins Publishers in New York shares the six year
history of the company's simple straightforward intranet portal. Much of
the portal's role is to stay out of the way while employees zoom through
it to retrieve and enter business information in a set of web applications
and "sub-portals."

   > Sprint PinPoint <

Terry Pulliam of global communications company Sprint shares how a
business generalist navigated technological terrain, ROI runarounds and
governance growing pains in a quest to replace more than 4,000 intranet
sites serving more than 70,000 employees with a cohesive intranet portal.


More info and full seminar program (9 other specialized tutorials):	
   http://www.nngroup.com/events