As with any service, some employees will use your intranet and some won’t. The issue is getting enough people to use the service to make the investment in developing and maintaining it worthwhile.
Whilst developing a 3D timeline in Flash and Papervision3D for a client, I came across a problem which took me almost a week to fix. There was no single solution to this problem on the web, so I thought I’d post a consolidated example here to save other Flash/PV3 devs some time.
Intranets are often considered the poor cousin of the corporate web site and frequently suffer from management indifference and poor funding. Here is why we feel an intranet should be much more than just a corporate news service.