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:
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>> 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 identifying and eliminating all that ROT (Redundant, Outdated,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
>>
>>
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>> Keele University
>> Keele
>> Staffordshire
>> ST5 5BG
>>
>> 01782 733857
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