Intranet Gadgets
Full gallery of widgets, gadgets, tools and apps for Google Sites.
People Directory for Google Sites
Create an intranet who's who from the Google Workspace active directory. We use the Apps Script Admin SDK to pull domain contacts, employees and users all into Google Sheets. Once the data is in Google Sheets, we can utilize other tools to visualize an attractive directory into Google Sites.
Display Domain User Data Live
The sites intranet directory will always be up to date an display user profile information like:
Full Name
Email Address
Title
Organization
Phone Numbers
and much more
Search and Organize Across the Organization
Staff directories are easy to navigate when upgraded from a simple Google Sheet to an Awesome Table. Features of this secure app include:
Search employees by name, profile info, skills, title and more custom fields
Filter by organization, department, manager
Multiple filters can be enabled to complete a deep search
Awesome Table
The Power of Google Sheets Data Visualized on Your Site
We proudly partner with Awesome Table to import data in Google Sheets and showcase it on your intranet, import data in your spreadsheets by connecting to data sources of choice, showcase your spreadsheet data in a website by creating interactive people staff directories, maps, catalogs, FAQs, in-site taggable and filterable news feeds, and much more.
Embed Org Charts
An org chart can be as simple as development of HTML & CSS in Google Sites. Similarly, an image or PDF of a published org chart can be sufficient for small organizations would experience less turn around. Besides building this directly into the Google Site, what are options are available? Let's discuss a few popular products and how they behave in Sites.
The Org
An excellent org chart publishing option that is free, but also public. If your organization is transparent about organizational structure, leaders, management, operations, etc, then no problem. Embeds with collapsible menus, profiles and search functions.
View a The Org example org chart
Pingboard
Pingboard is quite the all-inclusive program for org charts, directories, profiles, onboarding and more. This appealing package may be just what your company is looking for, or may be over the top depending on your goals and budget. Regardless, the plugins from Pingboard all look great on Google Sites and provide accessible employee information.
View a pingboard embeddable example
ChartHop
Another great platform for org charts and this one is free up to 150 employees! Easy visual builder to create your org chart and then embed it into Sites. Search, filter, zoom and interact with the live example iframed into your intranet site.
View their webpage about org charts with a video
Google Slides
Slides may be the most accessible org chart builder for Google Workspace users and one platform many are already familiar with. As you know, Google Slides gives you many of the tools for easy diagram, flowchart and therefore, org chart design. Inserting Slides into Google Sites is already a streamlined process. This is a no-added-cost type solution and I'm sure templates are available to start from.
Lucid Charts
You can create an org chart in Lucidchart with a template or by importing your employee data. It’s possible to collaborate and change positions. With org chart software, large organizations will have structures and relationships between departments that are easy to read. Permissions options allow view-only access for information or the administrator can edit the organizational chart.
SmartDraw
An org chart is a great way to visualize your company's decision makers and general hierarchy. SmartDraw makes it easy to create an org chart. Just enter your information in the default template and watch as SmartDraw creates a professional-looking chart for you.
Embed that Social Media
Official Twitter Feed, Facebook, Instagram Gadgets for Google Sites
We use the official gadgets by Twitter and Facebook to stream your social media content directly into a Google Sites intranet. These gadgets will definitely display your company culture and let your staff know what's new.
The Twitter feed is super easy to change to. Just plug in your Twitter widget ID into the gadget properties. No coding required.
The Facebook feed is the original HTML5 code embedded through a Google gadget to a Google Site.
The Instagram widget we use is the official embed page provided by Meta.
How Jotform Improves Google Sites
Jotform brings many easily embeddable elements into Google Sites
We have used Jotform for many years on our Google Sites projects. Here are the top use cases for Jotform in intranets:
Web forms of all sorts - Contact, Requests, Feedback, Reporting, News.
Ecommerce Stores - For company merch, swag, gifts, etc.
Tables - Search, filters, tags, formulas, database, simple CRM solutions, smart sheet type technology
Approvals - Take your form submissions and send them off for approvals, team approvals, signatures and more.
Useful settings for Jotform
Here are some of the powerful advanced settings available to Jotform users:
Calculations
Widgets
Conditions
Integrations for Payment, Google Drive, Newsletters, Google Calendar are more
Thank you Pages
Approval Flows and Work Flows
Signatures
Mobile Notifications
I'm sure you can imagine how IT, HR and any other department team can benefits from these capabilities.
Bring Industry News into your Google Site
RSS Feeds to syndicate relevant content to your users
RSS Feeds are everywhere and it can be incredible to leverage news from the world web into an intranet. For example, if you are an Eco-Manufacturing company, you want to display to top news regards green energy and sustainable culture. The RSS Feed for Google Sites provides the fresh, dynamic content that keeps everyone in the loop.
Grab multiple RSS feeds and combine them into one gadget.
Enable mouse-over article descriptions (basically you can read a snippet of the article without going to the article itself).
Automatically floats the newest posts to the top
Google Groups can have RSS enable, so your company discussion can be displayed.
New Google Sites Widgets Laboratory
We designed a separate site to house all our experiments with New Google Sites using the Embed Code feature. In addition, we have some other helpful tools there for you to check out.
https://sites.google.com/kirksvillewebdesign.com/testing/