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"My LBNL" Allows You To Customize an Intranet Page of Lab Information Resources The Lab offers a wealth of information on its web pages, but sometimes tracking down what you're looking for can be time-consuming. If you've ever thought there should be an easier way of finding things, there is — now. A new web application, called My LBNL, allows employees to individually customize a web site incorporating the various web pages they often visit, as well as add some new data points. For example, if you look up lots of phone numbers, wouldn't it be handy to have the Directory Services page close at hand? And wouldn't it be convenient to have a web search engine on the same page? Along with the Berkeley weather report? And the latest news from Currents? Links to computer support services? And maybe even a list of forms you often need? Perhaps an encyclopedia and dictionary? My LBNL allows you to do just that. Zach Radding of the Strategic Servers Group within the Computing Infrastructure Support Department created My LBNL after realizing that similar, commercially available applications imposed certain restrictions, couldn't include Lab info, and were expensive to boot. "We thought we could come up with something more useful - and we did," says Radding. "Not only does it let you create your own page of internal Lab information, but it's also a way to learn about services you may not have known about - such as the on-line encyclopedia available to employees and on-line floor plans for Lab buildings." My LBNL will allow each employee to tailor a web site to suit his or her requirements, and change it as needed. Both the content and the appearance can be customized. View a sample My LBNL page and customize it to suit your needs. |
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