Agenda for 08.04.01 – Student involvement in web content creation

UPDATE: Due to low turn out, this session has been delayed one week until April 1st (no joke!)

Next roundtable discussion is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1st @ 1:00PM CDT in #uwebd on irc.freenode.net. Note, that this does not directly deal with the topic of just student blogging, though it could come up. More specifically, we should discuss using student employees in assisting with content policing, writing, creation, etc from within your office to augment current staff. How far should it go, and where do they fit in the workflow?

Introduction

• Roll call.
• Opening statements.

Finding Students

• What’s the best background to draw students from?
• How many is best?
• Get who you can-rinse-repeat, or try to bring in students who can stick it out longer term?

Responsibility

• What tasks do they handle?
  • Content migration
  • Editing
  • Writing/Creation
• Use them for making multimedia?
  • Send them out with a camera, see what happens
• Limit them to specific areas of content?
  • FAQs
  • Building Descriptions
  • Other non-critical types of content
• Where do they fall in the workflow
  • Who watches over them?

External Students

• Allow departments to use student editors?
• Does this require special policy?
  • …or certification from the web office for editing privileges
• Who’s responsibility is it to make sure they do what they are supposed to?
  • Avoiding department rubber stamping of content without looking at it

Closing Statements

• Final thoughts.
• Notes.
• Thank you.

Agenda for 08.03.11 – Choosing/Comparing CMS’s

Next roundtable discussion is scheduled for Tuesday, March 11th @ 1:00PM CDT in #uwebd on irc.freenode.net.

Introduction

• Roll call.
• Opening statements.

Choosing a CMS

• Do it on your own, or hire a consultant?
  • Be sure to check cmsmatrix.org
• What is top priority for features?
• Creating a selection plan.
• Commercial or Open Source?
  • Differences in support.
  • Differences in community.
• Estimating a budget.
  • What to plan for (training, development, custom integration, hardware, support…).
• Gauging hardware needs.
  • Worth using a hosted solution?

Comparing CMS’s

• Workflow systems
• WYSIWIG or form based input
• Production environments (how it serves content to visitors)
• Editing/staging environments (how it handles our users/editors)
• Framework options
• Scalability
• Integration with other services
• Features
• etc

Market Penetration

• Who is using what?

Closing Statements

• Final thoughts.
• Notes.
• Thank you.

Agenda for 08.02.26 – Establishing Web Policies

Next roundtable discussion is scheduled for Tuesday, February 26th @ 1:00PM CST in #uwebd on irc.freenode.net.

Introduction

• Roll call.
• Opening statements.

For those with policies (please place [w] after your nickname)

• Sharing of links to current policies.
• Who sets your policy?
• How do you enforce it?
• How often do you revise it?
• What have you found does[n't] work?

For those without policies (please place [wo] after your nickname)

• Are you trying or preparing to set up policies?
• What challenges are you trying to overcome?
• Are you having success without one?
• Who should you involve in policy making?

Coverage

• What does/should web policy govern (styles, content, workflows, file formats, etc)?
• Does the web fall under traditional branding guidelines?
• Sharing of links to branding documents for comparison/contrast with web policies.

Closing Statements

• Final thoughts.
• Notes.
• Thank you.