Plan A is embedded in company communication: newsletters, posters, the staff magazine, e-mail updates, breakfast debates, team debriefs and an intranet site with videos, carbon footprint calculator, a car sharing tool and blog for staff to ask questions and share eco hints and tips.
To address this, I worked with the information systems administrative coordinator at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, to design and implement a perioperative intranet site that includes videos and fact sheets about equipment and supplies and that can be accessed by all perioperative staff members.
He can also watch seminars or presentations he may have missed by using streaming video on the intranet -- something he has even occasionally done from home.
As far as I can see, this is essentially a YouTube for the intranet, with the ability to categorize video into channels and all the usual streaming and video compression features you would expect from a hosted video library.
This is easier now we have a technology-enabled environment: Skype connectivity, video and audio conferencing, and an intranet portal site that gives access to a contact directory for Unilever employees around the world.
All of this information is available for review any time both in hard copy as well as on the hospital's intranet site in the form of slide presentations, videos, or PDF files.
Its intent: provide employees with access to social networking, e-meetings, instant messaging, and interactive rich media such as videos, all provided through a company's intranet.
Outsourcery's intranet is designed so that staff, wherever they are, have access to video calls from either their computer or phones.
Using a built in real-time streaming server one can see the live video from the camera through any web browser in the intranet.
