{"id":1843,"date":"2016-10-23T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.seattle.wordcamp.org\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2016-11-22T06:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T14:52:27","slug":"what-is-an-extranet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattle.wordcamp.org\/2016\/what-is-an-extranet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is an Extranet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Tiana Cameron, co-founder of a digital marketing fulfillment agency for mid to large size companies and a WordCamp Seattle 2016 Speaker<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"What<\/p>\n

Extranet sounds super techie, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Wikipedia\u2019s definition<\/a> is pretty techie:<\/p>\n

\u201cAn extranet is a website that allows controlled access to partners, vendors and suppliers or anauthorized set of customers \u2013 normally to a subset of the information accessible from an organization’s intranet…it provides access to needed services for authorized parties….a private network organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

In plain talk, extranet is just a fancy term for \u201cPORTAL\u201d where you and your customers\/clients can conduct business online.<\/p>\n

Now, what is a WordPress powered extranet? The most amazing thing ever.<\/p>\n

Think of it like a private, custom portal that you have complete control over. You get to choose and implement the features, set certain access for certain customers\/clients and style the look of the extranet to your company\u2019s visual brand.<\/p>\n

A super awesome benefit is you get to keep your customers\/clients in-house and not make them bounce around to different places to do things like:<\/p>\n