Presentations will be available at their website (when?)
Johnny Wong (UofR student) - student perspective - www.roguerobot.com
CMS - Plone reason, 508 validation, customization, simple publishing tools. Graphics lite, text heavy.
Site to check out: http://www.innovateonline.info/
||| CBE: Add to site; Download section (database). search section (search engine?). Assets section (related to downloads)
||| CBE: BLOGs for Fac, Students? A CMS solution for Chris Lawrence?
||| CBE: Make note "newsgroups" should say FORUMS
||| CBE: Add TECH forum => FAQ "Larry and Bob, CBE queried questions and responses" Database, searchable.
||| CBE: Build "Knowledge Base"
Delegation of duties.
Jason Moore
Sites to check:
-http://osp.serie-a.de/english/features.php - opensurveypilot. Generating complete online surveys-http://cmsmatrix.org/ CMS Matrix. For comparing CMS open source systems
-http://www.phpgroupware.org/ Groupware in PHP
-http://sakaiproject.org/ CLE Collaboration and Learning Environment software
||| CBE: Look at www.xaraya.com (note:its not easy to use)
||| CBE: Wireless conversions using WURFL http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/java/
||| CBE: Check out http://www.educause.edu/ for a Non-profit promoting info tech. in higher ed.
David Van Scott, Daryl DuLong Presentation available at http://highed.dulongvanscott.com/
Building a student website for a "class". Connecting students to reduce stress, reduce questions, build unity class & school.
Developed by officials / staff, but handed off to a student council to run as their own sight after initial break in (school starts)
Examples:
Bucknell UniversityYale University [link doesn't work but look a their "classes" server] http://classes.yale.edu/
Browser Detection: PHPSniff
|||CBE - Present idea of a "class" specific site or ? to Dr. Cimino and David. Place to put information on orientation, housing, emails, match lists, boards, graduation etc... Forums monitored by students no administration. HONOR system?
Aimee J. Lewis presentation at http://www.rochester.edu/warner/ (the school flower is a dandelion)
Steps in the Process.
- Identify the Process.
- Research.
- Planning and Strategies.
- Information Architecture and Content.
- Develop Content.
- Implementation.
- Evaluation.
Research.
- institution, audience, competition, limitations and assets.
- creative briefs, outlines (maybe outside consultants)
Audience-
conduct focus groups. (warner combined it with Alumni meeting)
Need to keep in focus the target audience. Develop an Audience Profile [its a presentation tool for selling plan to administration](Warner came up with idea of stories - developed for 5 typical students)
||| CBE - conduct survey on Incoming students - technology expectations, needs etc...
User scenarios - visitor experience. Does the reality match expectations?
Benchmark-
Who is the competition, technology, common trends.
Define Success
Is the a measurable path?
Set Deadlines. (so a project doesn't drag on forever)
Write Up a Written plan.
"Wireframes"
Do useablity testing.
Design
"Tone and Feel"
Integration.
Web Standards.
Getting to the Finale.
Collaboration (key players)
Evaluation.
Did it work?
Did the users (key players) express the key words you were looking for
ie; Clean, Professional, Thought Provoking ?
Melissa Meehan Buffalo State Presentation available
Presentation centered on the story of how Buffalo State came to its current state of development.
Common situation of a school made up of many self publishers, no central authority - except for server control and rules.
They developed "Web Classes" for content developers. This helped ease transistion to using campus web services (first web position in 1999)
Classes included; Web Publishing Standards, ADA compliance (SUNY rule), Writing for the Web, Intro to HTML, Intro to Web Design, Intermediate Web Design, Creating PDF's, Customization for Searchs, Understanding Site Traffic.
Buffalo state couldn't use open source (official ruling). Chose http://www.inmagic.com/solutions/products/content_server/content_server.html
Desired a flexible system, that would grow, produced short (human) URLs
Didn't want to put web group in position of being big brother.
Other sites at Buffalo State related to this project;
Kathy Farrell, Melissa Meehan, Ned Stankus, Maryann Stopha Presentation Available
Web analysis Tools;
Clicktracks: http://www.clicktracks.com/
OpenTracker: http://www.opentracker.net/
Sawmill: http://www.sawmill.net/
Urchin: http://www.urchin.com/
Webalizer: http://www.webalizer.com/
Web Trends: http://www.netiq.com/webtrends/default.asp
Understanding Web Log Statistics and Metrics http://visibility.tv/tips/stats.html
Web Metrics versus Web Analytics http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/sterne14.asp
Measure at consistent intervals using consistent methods
Why? To monitor, improve, identify problems, test, gather data for decisions.
Testing: Browsers / Apps
||| CBE : do we have an AOL browser to test with?
Geneseo - Focus on PAGE views not HITS
Nice feature to find or have developed : step through - following a users path through website. Not easily done with changing IP address used by some big ISP's (AOL, Earthlink)
Diffucult to catch AUTHENTICATION in statistics.
Use PHP Header for enrichment of Web log (look up techniques)
Problem with refreshed pages versus cached pages.
Combine with other Data sources; Surveys. Help Desk Calls (help emails)
[Final site - includes free survey tool?]
Survey Monkey - from Virginia Tech [ Web Address?] Also mentioned Zoomerang [web address?]
Contact page, not direct emails (for log purposes and prevent spamming)
Search tools: Ultraseek installed at some sites.
Results show: Recommended pages, relevenant topics, you might like.
Bill Rose, Rose Pruyne Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology presentation available
Main point; Identify needs before looking at and comparing features of CMS systems.
Proactive versus Reactive.
identify stakeholders, make non web group focus on content (if thats their contribution)
What are user requirements?
Example; Victorian Government Web Content management requirements
Building a business case; Opportunity, Justification, Scope, Constraints need to be identified
Dealing with Vendors. Make them prove that their product can do what you want it to do.
Mark Greenfield, Kara Saunders Presentation Available
Recommended book: Cluetrain Manifasto
uses concept of "Bridge Pages" http://ataglance.buffalo.edu/