It’s that time again – read on to find out what we’ve been up to over the past couple of weeks.
Go Mobile programme
Plans for the next phase of Go Mobile are underway. We’re busy planning, meeting with site editors and carrying out preparation and benchmarking on the next batch of sites.
Linda met with our Alumni colleagues to start planning the Newcastle University Alumni and Giving to Newcastle sites. They’re up next for Go Mobile.
Jane met with editors from the Careers website while Steve and Lisa met with editors for the Science Central site.
The Accommodation Office are keen to get started with the process, we’re working with them to see what updates they can make to their site to help them prepare for the Go Mobile process.
If you’re thinking ahead why not take a look at our blog post on Decluttering your site for Go Mobile.
Design and Technical developments
The tech team have been busy with ongoing developments in T4 including:
- building a new sitemap for the website
- work on the Undergraduate and Press Office sites
- building the central virtual tours in T4
Andy and Catherine also met with the Publications team to discuss photography planning for the next phase of Go Mobile.
Training and support
Jane and Emma C delivered training on planning and writing web content for the next group of editors with sites in Go Mobile.
We’ve received the feedback from our first Web Media Management training sessions. It’s really positive and shows that this is a welcome addition to our programme of training for editors.
We’ve received 56 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 27 of them.
Industry conferences, workshops and training
Peter and Catherine are attending an advanced JavaScript course on-site.
Jane and Lisa attended the Content Strategy workshop at Nielsen Norman’s Usability Training Week in London. They came away with loads of ideas to develop and implement into Go Mobile – and affirmation that we’re doing great things from fellow content professionals.
Emma C will be attending the Nielsen Norman workshop on analytics and user experience workshop later this week.
Campaigns and web developments
Always thinking ahead, we’re reviewing the Clearing database ready for next August!
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re in the final five weeks of the Undergraduate site development. It’s all hands on deck to make sure we get all the content elements in place and the site signed off.
