We’ve had our heads down throughout January, busy getting ready for Go Mobile Phase 2, and have had some exciting changes…
A warm welcome to the new arrival in our team; Head of Digital, Graham Tyrrell.
Graham started on the 18 January. His remit is to help us to further develop and deliver a world-class digital/web experience for visitors, our students and staff.
With over 15 years’ experience in web and digital work, Graham has worked in a number of not-for-profit organisations; the Home Office, Royal Institute of British Architects, Cancer Research UK and Which?
We’re hoping we can get a guest blog post in the near future from Graham, so watch this space!
Go Mobile programme
The recruitment process is still ongoing for the new faculty web managers and content officers to help with Go Mobile, and the new office space is still on-track for March.
Linda has started building the new Alumni site in T4. Plans are to merge the current Giving to Newcastle, 1834 Fund and the Alumni sites. Rather than migrate lots of unwanted content into the system, the Alumni team have decided to write it all from scratch!
The International website will be split in two as part of Go Mobile. The part of the site focused on recruitment has been migrated into T4 and is currently being prepared to hand over to editors. Emma C is working with the Student Mobility and Integration team on restructuring the study abroad and exchange content. She has also met with members of the International Relations team to discuss rebuilding their site in T4.
Lisa has been making further content updates to the Science Central website to get it ready for proofreading next week.
The Careers website will become four new sites as part of Go Mobile – yes four!
Jane has started building the Careers website, working with the Information Team to clarify the new structure. She’s also building an online resource website for occupation information.
Catherine is helping out with an internal Careers site for staff, working with technical colleagues in both the Careers service and NUIT. And finally, Lisa is working on the build of a new Employers site. It’s already been migrated into T4, so Lisa is getting the content ready to hand over to editors.
Design and Technical developments
A new collection of accommodation virtual tours has been commissioned by Lynn Shaughnessy, in the Accommodation Team. They will be available for embedding into T4 websites. We are also making sure they are added to the central virtual tour website. They include:
- Albion House
- Kensington Terrace
- Park Terrace
- The View
- Turner Court
A to Z jump links can now be added to alphabetical staff lists and works in the same way as the jump links in the courses listings for the undergraduate and postgraduate websites.
The following websites have been imported into T4, ready for content editorial:
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- International Students
- Employers
We are finishing some technical developments and refining some of the content types which will be needed in the next phase of site migrations. We are also looking at the requirements of research project pages, news and events listings and staff personal web profiles.
Training and support
Linda and Lisa ran another Planning and Writing Web Content session.
Emma C ran media management training for members of the Press Office, NU Advancement and our own team.
Anne delivered two Contribute webinars for staff at NUMED, ran another T4 CMS workshop, and delivered a bespoke T4 CMS session for Press Office staff.
So far, we’ve received 27 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 19 of them.
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re getting ready for our first web editor community event where we’ll host editors whose sites were completed in phase 1 of Go Mobile….we have organised lots of cake!
