Need some cool ideas for company's portal page

Question

Are there any list of sites that can give me an idea what all I should put on the company portal page? Manager asked me to look into re-designing the company intranet sites. I thought of news rotator.

Answer 1

This is my favorite for cultivating ideas, http://www.wssdemo.com/livepivot/ as it is specifically SharePoint targetted.

Answer 2

There is an annual report by the Nielsen Norman Group detailing the best Intranet designs from a pool of nominated designs. It does cost $248. I have used this report in the past and personally found it worth the money.

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/intranet/design/

If you don't want to buy the report it lists the Best Practices that it covers and you can google these to get more detailed information.

Best Practices

• Expertise finders (locating coworkers with specific knowledge)
• Staff directory and employee profile pages
• Knowledge management
• Company and industry news
• Editorial control of the intranet homepage and other sections
• Keeping the intranet up-to-date
• Curating content across the intranet
• User/Employee-contributed content
• Commenting features
• Ratings and feedback systems
• Increasing the level of employee participation: reward features
• CEO blogging and video
• Employee and department team sites
• Consistent navigation and clear IA
• Search
• Page templates and consistent page layout
• Video on intranets
• Data visualization
• Mega-menus for intranet navigation
• Lightboxes
• Development process for intranet redesigns
• Web analytics for intranets
• Intranet branding
• Promoting new intranet features
• Mobile intranets (including iPhone apps for intranet access)
• Personalization and ways to ensure that all users get the most from it