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We have just over 600,000 (non-deleted) pages, and I think we struggle quite a lot(!) with this problem. 16,000 doesn't seem so bad in comparison... Mat -----Original Message----- From: Managing institutional Web services [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Hannah Hiles Sent: 08 April 2013 15:02 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Content culling, or stopping the ROT Thanks to everyone who has replied so far! As luck would have it, I'd completely forgotten that we have a copy of the Halvorson book on the shelf, so that will be a great help. We have about 16,000 pages so a content audit is quite a daunting prospect - is this a typical size of site? Cheers Hannah On 8 April 2013 12:44, Helen Sargan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'd suggest that you have a look at a good Content Strategy book. I found that 'Content Strategy at Work' ( Margot Bloomstein) worked best for me - I didn't get on with the Halvorson book 'Content Strategy for the Web', which is meant to be *the* one to go for. > > Giving people a model and a checklist to work with can often work - that's in the examples of the book. > > On 8 Apr 2013, at 12:15, Hannah Hiles <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi everyone >> >> We are currently discussing the future development of our website but >> as one of my colleagues so beautifully put it, "we need to clear out >> the loft and garage before we decide if we need to move house". >> >> I was wondering whether anyone had a good policy in place for >> identifying and eliminating all that ROT (Redundant, Outdated, >> Trivial) content on your sites? >> >> Content creation is completely devolved here so we will need to >> "encourage" colleagues in the Faculties/Research >> Institutes/Directorates to look at their pages and get rid of >> anything unnecessary. >> >> I'd be interested in hearing about anything that works - and anything >> that doesn't! >> >> Take care >> Hannah >> >> >> -- >> Hannah Hiles >> Media and Communications Manager (at Keele Monday, Wednesday and >> Thursday) Keele University Keele Staffordshire >> ST5 5BG >> >> 01782 733857 >> [log in to unmask] > > > ************************************************************************************** > Helen Varley Sargan email:[log in to unmask] > Information Provision & Webmaster [log in to unmask] > University Computing Service New Museums Site > Pembroke St tel: 01223 334480 > Cambridge CB2 3QH fax: 01223 334679 > -- Hannah Hiles Media and Communications Manager (at Keele Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) Keele University Keele Staffordshire ST5 5BG 01782 733857 [log in to unmask]