1. NOAA Research Hot Items! To facilitate communication amongst the NOAA Research offices Nancy Soreide and Eugene Burger NOAA/OAR/PMEL NOAATech2002 Oct 23-25, 2001, Silver Spring, MD Internal web-based news pages

2. NOAA Research Hot Items! To facilitate communication throughout NOAA Research Laboratories, Program Offices, Joint Institutes

3. Hot Items! web site Internal communications page for NOAA Research Stories are entered by authorized staff in each office Entered into a secure, internal web page Published immediately or at later date Items appear automatically on Hot Items! As a headline Clickable to the full story Everyone in NOAA Research can view Hot Items! web page Archive Stories are archived after two weeks Archived stories are retrievable from a searchable database Searchable by laboratory/program office name, date, keyword

4. Panel for laboratory, program office Headlines are clickable to full story Hot Items! Intranet website

5. Headline is clickable to full story

6. Login to enter Hot Items! Secured login to enter stories User authentication User information encrypted in database Session tracking to authenticate administrative user actions Secure Socket Layers (SSL) safeguards user’s network login/password

7. Forms for convenient story entry Free form (right) Scientific publication Media contact Workshop, conference, professional society meeting

8. Searchable story Archive Stories Automatically moved to searchable archive after 2 weeks Archive Search by laboratory or program office, date, keyword

9. Story retrieved from Archive

10. Local hot items Owned by local laboratory or program office Facilitates communication within local office Local configuration Administration permissions User – can enter, edit publish, delete own stories Administrator – add users, edit, publish, delete any stories, local configuration (e.g., story lifetime, logo, etc.) Director – Administrator functions and can push stories Viewable within local office or as directed by local management Hosted on Seattle Campus web server Operational July 2001 Local management can “push” items from local hot items to NOAA Research Hot Items! Consolidates and replaces Outreach/Weekly Reporting requirements

11. Local laboratory and program office hot items Stories can be sent forward from the local hot items pages to NOAA Research Hot Items! AOML hot items PMEL hot items NOAA Research Hot Items! NOAA Research Hot Items Local hot items

12. Owned by local office Headline clickable to full story Searchable archive local office name/logo Stories can be pushed to NOAA Research Hot Items! Local hot items

13. Push local story Requires Director level login Select story Optional Edit Publish on NOAA Research Hot Items! Set publication date Pushing a local story to NOAA Research Hot Items!

14. Story “pushed” onto NOAA Research Hot Items!

15. Database All entries stored in a MySQL database Security Secure Socket Layers (SSL) ensures log in without compromising user name and/or password Information encrypted before entry into the database Web pages secured to internal users or password protected Server side technology Apache web server with PHP hypertext parser and scripting language Refresh and updates are automated Hosted on NOAA Seattle Campus NOC Web Server (24x7) Client side Cascading style sheets, HTML, JavaScript Technical overview See presentation by Eugene Burger at 1:00 in AUD