Interesting... I was just about to ask the same question, when another
bigger question appeared!
We are investigating the process of automating the print to web issue
surrounding course content (prospectus' etc)
One way forward would be to reverse this process, the web is updated and
then we go to print... does anyone else have this similar problem or a
solution?
The design agency that produces our current prospectus are using
Catalog'nTime(tm) software that can output all courses in a .csv, xml, etc,
format as well as give Faculties access to maintain their content via a web
interface, the problem there is that we have to rely on an external design
agency, alternatively the new version of SITS apparently has new features
and one option is to store course content which would also be useful for
integrating with Blackboard etc...
Any advice most appreciated.
Regards,
Joel cut'n'paste Porter
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Joel Porter
Senior Communication Officer
St Martins College
Rydal Road, Ambleside,
Cumbria. LA22 9BB
Tel: 015394 30395
Internal: 5395
-----Original Message-----
From: Gareth McAleese [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 02 April 2003 18:16
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Encouraging staff to update
Alison,
It is a very difficult issue to address.
We are moving away from content publishing directly for other departments to
building and supporting tools to enable departments to do this directly
themselves.
We have developed lots of web-based systems to automate the publishing
process, so that staff with content responsibility can do just that and now
worry about issues, such as where the content should go, HTML and FTP issues
etc. Making this process as simple as possible has enabled us to develop
some quite sophisticated websites with minimal author/departmental
interaction.
We have also developed our own in house content management system, which we
are in the process of developing and rolling out to departments. This
allows staff to flag when content should be updated and removed from the web
which will be enforced - i.e. if its out of date it will be removed, authors
will get plenty of automatic reminders before this happens though. It also
allows us to have a high level overview of when content needs updating.
Also having the backing of senior management helps as they can reinforce
through their communications channels the need to have accurate and
up-to-date information on the website.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Gareth
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Gareth McAleese
Web and New Media Manager
Public Affairs
University of Ulster
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alison Wildish [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Encouraging staff to update
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am in the process of re-evaluating our procedures and
> processes. One question that I asked my team, and that always
> seems to crop up, is what can we do to encourage our
> departments to update content more frequently?
>
> Most of our departments here see web updates as a low
> priority and I'd like to encourage them to keep on top of the
> updates and keep the site fresh. Aside from tightening down
> procedures to make it easier to do so can anyone recommend
> initiatives to encourage staff to get more involved?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alison
>
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