Portal and content management have taken up a lot of my time lately. Branding should be decided this week. In fact, if you want to give you input on the two options we are considering, answer our quick poll. If you are reading this after 9/20/02, the poll isn't available anymore because the decision is already made. The branding for portal will be somewhat different than innerweb. I've been thinking about this stuff a lot lately. Here are some things to consider, which have an impact on state domain creation:
- Innerweb.utah.gov, as far as I can tell, has been used for sites that are internal and protected by our authentication system. If there is an official policy, I am not familiar with it, but it has been used for sites unassociated with the current employee portal, which is branded with innerweb.
- Our new portal will be branded with something a little less ambiguous or amorphous. It could be mydesk.utah.gov or mywork.utah.gov. Neither of these lend themselves very well to being a part of another domain. For example erep.mydesk.utah.gov doesn't work very well (maybe a bad example).
It seems that the creation of new domains should be centered on utah.gov, and we should reconsider the need to brand internal domains with some distinguishing word, like innerweb. I don't think we need it. Utah.gov should be the base domain for any state URL or URI.
In my dreams I imagine web services-based URIs based on the utah.gov domain that will allow access to data. For example, I would love to be able to go to http://license.utah.gov/152364401, (not a real URI) and authenticate as myself against the state master directory, and change my address and renew my driver's license. I will continue to dream.
3:42:08 PM 
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