FSWeb 1.5

A new version of the FSWeb will begin rolling out on April 2nd.  
It is based on portal technology, much like My Yahoo  or customized Google home page.  The idea is to provide information that is specific to the user, and to allow the user to customize the information that they receive.   The new approach should be a big improvement for the existing FSWeb -- mainly because it will bring a lot of applications together in one place under one eauthentication password.   So, for example, we will have access to paycheck, FSToday, employee notices, RSS feeds, weather, Google searches, etc...

This is all good news but it is only a good first step.  Portals are Web 1.0 stuff from the late 1990s.
The real leap forward will be allowing employees to create and share information themselves.  
Fortunately, the folks are that working on this new version of the FSWeb are also talking about how we can start to social software and social media.  It won't be available on the April 2nd release, but I think we are headed in the right direction.