Intranet Portals - A Tool Metaphor for Corporate Information

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for March 31 is now online at:
   http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030331.html	

Summary:
Internet portals are virtually dead, but a portal approach can tame the unruly chaos on internal company networks.
Intranet portals overcome many Internet portal limitations, and might be the best hope for productivity and a unified user experience.
	
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Usability Week 2003: San Francisco, May 12-16

Introducing a new format:
   3-day intensive camp: Usability in Practice

What's the difference between the 3-day camp and our "traditional" one-day
tutorial to teach user testing? For sure, one-day tutorials have two huge
advantages: they are cheaper and require fewer days away from the office.
Also, user testing is simple enough that we can teach the basic theory in
one day. Still, theory and practice are different, and the 3-day format
gives us time to have much more in-depth exercises and cover more of the
practical details in doing usability.

The 3-day format has two other major advantages:

* With a single curriculum covering three days, each element in the
seminar can build on the previous ones. Tighter integration allows us to
present information that would have required almost four days of
stand-alone tutorials.

* Keeping the group together for three days allows much more in-depth
networking and exchange of experience. Even though this is the first 3-day
camp we are organizing in Nielsen Norman Group, I have run many intensive
offsites in past jobs, and the group experience is always as valuable as
the formal agenda.

Three days will always require a bigger commitment than a single day, but
I think it's worth it.


Usability Week also includes tutorials on these specialized topics:

  > Intranet Usability 
  > Web Metrics: Measuring Website Successes
  > Investor Relations Website Usability 
  > Application Design Bloopers 
  > E-Mail Newsletter Usability 


More info and full program:	
   http://www.nngroup.com/events