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
The Science Central website went live on Friday 5 February.
We’ve handed over the Employers site to the site editors who are currently working on the content in T4 and sourcing new assets.
Jane and Lisa are building and tagging up the Careers website to get it ready for migration to T4. They’re also doing a first pass edit of the content to get it ready to hand over to site editors.
We’re planning the induction of some of our new starters (March 2016) – there’s a lot for them to learn about working in our team and the Go Mobile programme.
We’ll be advertising for one more Web Content Officer role in the next few weeks.
Skills development
Gareth and Emma B have completed their project management training – they and are now fully-fledged Certified Scrum Masters and Agile Practitioners. Well done Gareth and Emma!
Over the next few months, we will be looking at how we can change our methods of working to adopt Agile principles with the aim of making our work faster and easier for everyone.
Office Move – all change!
A quick heads up that the Corporate Web Team will be relocating in mid-March from Level 5 of Kings Gate to the ground floor of the Daysh Building in the space formerly occupied by Combined Honours. This ties in with our need to work in an Agile way. We’re therefore moving to a more collaborative space where our progress can be made visible on walls and whiteboards.
The new office will also mean that we can more easily assemble as a team every day to monitor progress and troubleshoot problems. We will of course let everyone know when we have a firm date for the move.
Design and Technical developments
The Video Wall and Central Virtual Tours website went live on 11 February. The Virtual Tours website now includes optimised versions of the tours that work on mobile devices.
Campaigns and web developments
Steve has been working on a recruitment website for the new batch of Graduate Ambassadors – Join the Team, which went live last week.
Training and support
We ran our first web editor community event on Wednesday 3 February. This session was for editors whose sites have been through the Go Mobile treatment and are now live. We shared some tips for using the new content management system and looked at some content types that we’ve developed since we began the programme.
Find out what one of the editors who attended the event thought in our Go Mobile web editor community event guest post.
So far, we’ve received 35 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 15 of them.
Plans for the next few weeks
Over the next few weeks we’ll be busy getting ready for our office move and continuing work on the first batch of sites in Phase 2 of Go Mobile.
