> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cox, Will [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 3:08 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Staff webpages
>
> You are looking at this from a 'personal' point of view not from a 'university' point of view.
>
> Would your prospectus look as professional if each course leader had a few photos of their cats next to their course page or a recipe for
> meatloaf next to the intro by the director of school.
>
> We wouldn't allow this in print and it's questionable whether we should allow it on the web, users looking at an address
> www.universityname.ac.uk/~staffpage would assume that it's an officially sanctioned page of www.universityname.ac.uk
>
> You don't see personal pages on HP, Sun, Sainsburys or any other large corporate company because it would damage their brand - why should
> universities be any different?
>
> Will
>
>
I couldn't agree with you any more than I already do. Oh, take me with you to corporate Heaven in the Rapture!
Sean Wilcock
Lecturer
School of Information Management
Leeds Metropolitan University
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