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-===== Corporate Directory ===== +====== Corporate Directory ======
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-==== What is it? ====+
  
 Every company has a corporate directory, but the medium differs - photocopies, spreadsheets, LDAP, desk phones. Every company has a corporate directory, but the medium differs - photocopies, spreadsheets, LDAP, desk phones.
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 Maintaining a Corporate Directory on a wiki, however, lets everybody update their own information as soon as it changes. Maintaining a Corporate Directory on a wiki, however, lets everybody update their own information as soon as it changes.
  
-==== Usage ====+===== Usage =====
  
 Since wiki pages are not bound by the dimensions of a printed page, they can contain a rich variety of information, such as: Since wiki pages are not bound by the dimensions of a printed page, they can contain a rich variety of information, such as:
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   * **Link to personal blog** - an example of pointing to information not kept in a traditional corporate wiki   * **Link to personal blog** - an example of pointing to information not kept in a traditional corporate wiki
  
-=== Benefits of using a wiki for a corporate directory: ===+==== Benefits of using a wiki for a corporate directory ====
  
   * Staff can instantly update //their own// information   * Staff can instantly update //their own// information
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   * The directory is always up-to-date and does not need to be disseminated (compare that to distributing spreadsheets every couple of weeks!)   * The directory is always up-to-date and does not need to be disseminated (compare that to distributing spreadsheets every couple of weeks!)
  
-=== Presentation Format ===+==== Presentation Format ====
  
 **Basic:** A basic table is sufficient for the task. The web browser's Search function will let users find information quicker than a 'round trip' query (unless your directory is huge). **Basic:** A basic table is sufficient for the task. The web browser's Search function will let users find information quicker than a 'round trip' query (unless your directory is huge).
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 **Best:** Some form of programmed directory can be even better, which can give better interactivity to end users. **Best:** Some form of programmed directory can be even better, which can give better interactivity to end users.
  
-==== Example ====+===== Example =====
  
   *  [[https://coral.uchicago.edu:8443/confluence/display/divrsrcs/Full+Staff+Directory+%28sorted+by+last+name%29|University of Chicago]]    *  [[https://coral.uchicago.edu:8443/confluence/display/divrsrcs/Full+Staff+Directory+%28sorted+by+last+name%29|University of Chicago]] 
  
-==== Related Patterns ====+===== Related Patterns =====
  
-  * [[My+Personal+Info|My Personal Info]] +  * [[My Personal Info]] 
-  * [[Magnet|Magnet]] - putting a directory of information about the people in your organization can set a wiki on the path to becoming a magnet for a group's most critically important and often accessed information.+  * [[Magnet]] - putting a directory of information about the people in your organization can set a wiki on the path to becoming a magnet for a group's most critically important and often accessed information.
  
-==== Further Reading ====+===== Further Reading =====
  
   *  [[http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/|MIT's Simile Project]]  - Create interactive data-rich web pages without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming   *  [[http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/|MIT's Simile Project]]  - Create interactive data-rich web pages without ever touching a database or a web server, or doing any programming
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 ---- struct data ---- ---- struct data ----
 +classification.type  : Pattern
 +classification.focus : Adoption
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