Intranet uses Internet technologies on the corporate network.
With minimal investment, organizations can greatly improve communications within departments such as the newsroom. Information from company telephone directories, newsroom rolodexes, VIP name authority lists, local demographics and chronologies are some of the natural candidates to be posted on the newsroom or news library Intranet. The Intranet can also act as the launching platform for archives, public records databases, photo assignment forms, research request forms or other shared information systems. If the MIS Department or Human Resources initiates an Intranet, the news library can jump on the bandwagon very easily. Often, however, it is the newsroom or the news library that first puts up home pages which later are expanded into a corporate resource.