Sorry for the off-topic posting, this is more of a meditation about programming than about perl. I'm currently in the process of developing an intranet for my company. I'm the project manager, so it's pretty much my vision that's going to guide the whole project, with very minor interference from the pointy-haired bosses. My company is just under 250 employees in size, but it's growing rapidly. Basically, I've been yelling intranet at the top of my lungs for the last year, and finally one of the executive must have heard someone mention intranets on TechTV or in the Wall Street Journal or something and they've finally greenlighted me.

I'm wondering if any of my fellow monks are in charge of managing their corporation's intranet. Do you have any advice for someone just building one from the ground up? Unfortunately, I won't be developing in perl(C#, ASP.NET), so I'm looking for advice not specifically on modules or code or any such things, but more general intranet design guidelines and tips and tactics from the School of Hard Knocks, so I have to attend as few classes there as possible. Any help is greatly appreciated.

In reply to OT: Intranet Design by Theseus

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