Enterprise Website System for Controlled Employee Content Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current social networking and intranet systems lack control and professionalism, fail to facilitate business networking, and are inefficient for tracking employee communications and sharing content, leading to challenges in promoting company talent and maintaining sensitive information security.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for creating enterprise-managed websites that allow organizations to configure and store content, screen member contributions, and deliver web pages with controlled access, using a server computer to enforce policies and visibility levels, enabling modular customization and tracking of employee web page effectiveness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If social networking sites are used for business networking, then employee connectivity and business relationship development are improved, but control over content and information security deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an enterprise-managed website system as an intermediary platform between employees and business networking. This system provides the connectivity benefits of social networking while maintaining enterprise control through administrative oversight, content moderation capabilities, and policy enforcement mechanisms that prevent information security risks.
Solution Approach 2:
The website is segmented into public-facing portions that enable business networking and private administrative portions that enforce security policies. Content is divided into employee-generated profiles and enterprise-controlled information, allowing selective visibility and access control to different types of information.
2Ease of manufacture
If company websites include employee-specific information, then talent promotion and professional representation are improved, but website complexity and maintenance difficulty worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Employees self-populate their own professional profiles, skills, and accomplishments on the enterprise website. This eliminates the need for manual content creation and updates by website administrators, significantly reducing maintenance complexity while keeping employee information current and accurate.
Solution Approach 2:
The website uses standardized template structures that serve multiple purposes: professional portfolio display, team organization, skill indexing, and searchability. This universal template approach simplifies website creation while accommodating diverse employee information through configurable fields within the standard framework.
3Reliability
If enterprise control over employee websites is increased, then information security and brand reputation are improved, but employee autonomy and ease of content creation worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Enterprise administrators pre-configure approval workflows, content policies, and visibility rules before employees create content. This preliminary setup establishes security and branding guidelines that automatically apply to all employee submissions, reducing the need for manual review while maintaining control over reputation-sensitive information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic content approval processes where the level of enterprise control adjusts based on content type and sensitivity. Routine employee profiles may require minimal review, while content related to confidential projects or sensitive information triggers enhanced approval workflows, balancing security needs with employee autonomy.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for developing websites for members of an organization include configuring and storing organization content using a server computer associated with the organization, configuring and storing member content associated with the members of the organization using the server computer, screening member content based by applying an organization policy stored on the server computer to prohibit specified information from being included in member content, and delivering a web page having the enterprise content arranged with member content in response to a request by a user for viewing a webpage having a URL corresponding to one of the members of the organization. The systems and methods may also include storing a visibility level for specified member content that limits access to the specified member content only to authorized users within the organization, in a specified group, by password, or private to the member, for example.