Hot Items!http://hotitems.oar.noaa.gov

Nancy Soreide. NOAA/OAR/PMEL

Seattle Regional Meeting (PRT-54)PMEL, Seattle, WA April 8, 2003

A news web site designed to facilitate communication

between parts of an organization

Hot Items - use in NOAA Research

Developed as an internal communications page for NOAA Research

Each Lab/Program Office enters local news

Operational since Jan 2001

Broader impact Read regularly by

employees and NOAA management

One Panel on the Hot Items Web Site Holds the Headlines for each part of the Organization

Scroll to seeall 21 NOAA Research panels…

Click headline to see full story, contact info,

URL…

Entering new stories

Each organization manages their own headlines Stories are entered by authorized users on

an easy-to-use, secure, internal web page Stories can be published immediately or at later

date Stories can edited or deleted Story lifetime is 2 weeks Expired stories are moved to a searchable Archive

Published stories appear immediately on the Hot Items web site

Enter story

on secure

web page

Publish

story

Published

story

appears on

Web site

Archive is

searchable

by

Organization,

Date,

Keyword

Expired Stories automatically moved to an on-line Archive

Hot Items - Demonstration

http://hotitems.oar.noaa.gov

Seattle Region Hot Items Web Site

Each Seattle region office or activity Owns their panel on website Posts headlines and stories

Benefits Improved awareness of NOAA activities in

the region Help in creating an inventory of available services Ensure that NOAA employees are aware of each

other's available products and services Archive of regional activity

NOAA Regions

http://heron.pmel.noaa.gov/regional/regionalview1.php

NOAA News & Information Web Site

Building a corporate NOAA

One panel for each NOAA Region Each region can push local items from their

regions’ hot items to the NOAA Regional Hot Items

Benefits Improved awareness of NOAA activities

across all regions Helps in creating an inventory of available

services for each region Ensures that NOAA regions are aware of each

other’s activities Ensures that employees are aware of each

other's available products and services