Table of Contents

1. Introducing LifeRay for Your Intranet 2. Set-up The Home Page And Navigation Structure for The Intranet 3. Bringing in Users 4. Discussion Forums And Tags 5. Wikis, Web Form And Polls 6. Internal Bloggings and RSS 7.Shared Calendars, WSRP And Workflow 8. Content Management and Publishing 9. Chat and Instant Messaging 10. Help Desk/Customer Support 11. Roll out to Other Teams 12. Search 13. Ongoing Admin Tasks Index

About the Author

Dr. Yuan is an expert on Liferay Portal and Content Management Systems (CMS). As an open source community contributor, he had published three Liferay books from 2008 to 2010. He is also an expert on Liferay integration with Ad Server OpenX, different search engines, enterprise content types including videos, audios, images, documents, and web contents, and other technologies such as BPM Intalio and Business Intelligence Pentaho, LDAP, and SSO. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Zurich, where he focused on Integrity Control in Federated Database Systems. He earned his M.S. and B.S. degrees from China, where he conducted research on expert systems for predicting landslides. Previously, he worked as a Project Manager and a Technical Architect in Web GIS (Geographic Information System). He is experienced in SystemsDevelopment Lifecycle (SDLC) and has deep, hands-on, skills in J2EE technologies. He developed a BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Engine called BPELPower from scratch in NASA data center. As the chief architect, Dr. Yuan led and successfully launched several large scale Liferay/Alfresco projects for millions of users each month.