1. 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

2. 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

3. One Panel on the Hot Items Web Site Holds the Headlines for each part of the Organization Scroll to see all 21 NOAA Research panels…

4. Click headline to see full story, contact info, URL…

5. 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

6. Enter story on secure web page Publish story Published story appears on Web site

7. Archive is searchable by Organization, Date, Keyword Expired Stories automatically moved to an on-line Archive

8. Hot Items - Demonstration http://hotitems.oar.noaa.gov

9. 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

10. NOAA Regions http://heron.pmel.noaa.gov/regional/regionalview1.php

11. 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