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Infrastructure:
Infrastructure refers to the organizational and management infrastructure that created, managed
and shared the content. It is based on internet standards and technologies that supports sharing of
content within a limited and well-defined group. A technical infrastructure becomes less of a
barrier to accessing specific content, it becomes important to pay attention to how access can be
restricted.
Intranet:
Definition :
An Intranet is an information portal designed specifically for the internal communications of
small, medium or large businesses. enterprises, governments, industries or financial institutions
of any size or complexity.
● It refers to “inward-facing” or “staff-facing” systems.
● Intranets can be custom designed to fit the exact requirements of a particular firm or
business.
● Users of Intranet:
a. Members of the executive team
b. Accounting and order billing
c. Managers and directors
d. Sales people and support staff
e. Customer service, help desk, etc.
Extranet
Definition:
A private network that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) and the public telecommunication system
to securely share the part of a business’s information or operations with suppliers, vendors,
partners, customers, or other businesses.
● It is the combination of the Internet and Intranet.
● Extranet are designed specifically to give external, limited access to certain files of the
computer system to some people who are associated with them.
They can be:
a. selected industry partners
b. Suppliers and subcontractors
c. certain large or privileged customers
● A carefully designed extranet can act as a catalyst for bringing additional business to a
company.
● Uses of Extranets:
a. Exchange large volumes of data using Electronic Data Interchange(EDI).
b. Share product catalogs exclusively with wholesalers or those “in the trade”.
c. Collaborate with other companies on joint development efforts.
d. Jointly develop and use training programmes with other companies.
e. Provide or access services provided by one company to a group of other
companies, such as online banking applications managed by one company on
behalf of affiliated banks.
Communication:
Many companies have set up their websites by developing separate and fragment
communications without having any inter-relationship.
Internet website development activity is managed by marketing or corporate communications,
the intranet team resides in IT under the infrastructure group.
Community base Communication
Steps for creating ordered list of communication:
1. Communities Inventory:
This includes mapping of organizations with regard to interactions, work flow,
and communication processes, including the identification of existing tools.
2. Communication Inventory:
This includes creating an inventory of current and potential forms of
communication, reviewing and determining if and how they can be more effective.
3. Online Publishing and Application list:
Create an ordered list of documents and applications for possible publishing or
creation as online resources.
Procurement:
After discovering what is needed the next step is selection of online services and communication
platform.
Categories of services:
1. Network services
2. Publishing services
3. Communication collaboration
4. Navigation
Recruitment:
The internet and the World Wide Web have become the most important new communication
media since television emerged,and ones that are fundamentally reshaping contemporary
understanding of sales and marketing. Companies are realizing that web-based techniques and
strategies must be approached as they would with any traditional marketing activity.
The internet explosion witnessed a myriad of new companies rapidly developing products and
services that capitalized on the web’s potential.
Exchange:
Internet Exchange Point: it is also known as IX or IXP which is a physical infrastructure that
allows different ISPs to exchange traffic to exchange within them.
The ultimate use of these exchange agreements is to reduce the average per bit delivery cost of
traffic.
Advantages:
1. Cost reduction
2. Communication Latency
3. Bandwidth
In short , the Virtual marketing model is capable enough to replace the traditional marketing
system proper and positive adoption of technologies.
4.Consumer Behaviour
Flow theory:
According to the Flow theory, the state of flow can be achieved when an activity carries some
challenges during the surfing of web to exhibit playful exploratory behaviour. It means marketers
must find out the barriers that the virtual consumer will come across as challenges an
d capture the opportunities. Those perceived challenges for web users should be interpreted as
those barriers that hinder the consumers from using the web or the opportunities that lead the
users to further surf the web site.
The concept of optimization of experience which is different from time to time through net
surfing depends on subjective feeling of high involvement, concentration, enjoyment and
intrinsic interest.
The theory suggests some elements to reveal individual experience in perception of interaction
with the web environment. The elements are as follows.
1. Clear and attainable goals - According to one’s capacity to achieve it.
2. Concentration focusing - Lower the focus area higher the concentration possible.
It is expected to reach merging of awareness with single minded concentration.
3. Distorted sense of time - The individual’s subjective experience of time is altered.
4. A sense of self - Control over the situation.
5. Instantly rewarding activities
6. Balance between personal skills and challenges.
7. Loss of self - Consciousness
8. Direct and Immediate feedback so that behaviour can be adjusted to repeat success.
Loyalty
Creating a loyalty for a specific brand is difficult task and when it comes to the internet it
becomes more complicated and crucial aspect to understand. Consumers often develop a loyalty
to a specific web site or a specific brand, this is both discernible as well as measurable. Hence it
is better to look upon a proved example above the methods carried out for development and
maintaining loyalty.
Internet communities
All communities are built around a common interest or passion.But the ideal community site
does more than just focus on like interests.It encourages lot of communications and interactions
whether trough chat rooms, bullet and boards or discussion forums. Web surfers are approaching
the internet in an all together new way in settling in staying put, making a home away from
home.Today , people of like minds and interests are establishing internet communities faster than
any construction company in the brick and mortar world.
These communities are turning the intrinsic cultural appeal of communities into a real business
proposition.