Go Mobile programme
We held a ‘Sprint retrospective’ in the team last week. It was an opportunity to review our processes and actions, so we can be flexible during Go Mobile. It means we can improve things we feel didn’t work so well, and check our processes are on track for success.
Fen spent most of this week proofing Marine Science and Technology, and migrating the Student Services into T4 – the latter going live today. She’s now working on the Website Information and Feedback site, which should be ready to go live in Batch 3.
Jane is working with Accommodation, finalising the restructuring of key sections to help people find the things they look for most – quickly. The enthusiastic Accommodation team had loads of great ideas following their Go Mobile training, so Jane has helped work these up. Now we just have to build it!
Steve has been liaising with Civil Engineering & Geosciences to manage the transfer of their site to T4 and working on a few final decisions for content on the Marine and Mechanical Engineering websites.
Catherine and Emily have been working on the final content for the Newcastle University Medicine Malaysia site ready for their editor to start work next week.
Emma C and Andrew have been editing and proofing content on the Geography, Politics and Sociology site to get it ready to go live today.
Emily’s been proofing the Mechanical Engineering site, which will also go live later today.
Jane also met with the Pre-Arrival team, to give them a heads-up that Go Mobile is heading their way – they are scheduled for Batch 2.
Design and Technical developments
Catherine has started creating colour schemes for the Batch 2 sites and did some browser testing on the search facility for the new Clearing website.
Peter has been setting up some of the Batch 2 sites in their pre-migration template ready for the content team to start tagging them for migration into T4.
Google Tag Manage has been updated to send event tracking information for the T4 buttons (both action and link types) and scroll tracking. It’ll show how far people will scroll down a particular page.
Campaigns and other developments
Emma C met with colleagues from the Loyola Center to discuss adding information about their programme to the Study Abroad and Exchanges website.
Fen shared a list of content experts to follow on Twitter, and some tips and tricks for using bold text.
Training and support
Anne delivered another T4 CMS workshop this week (we’ve been running this session for a whole year!), and is preparing some bespoke training for 2 June.
We’ve received 31 support requests through the NU Service Helpdesk and have resolved 15 of them.
Andrew has been working on news slides for the T4 media management training, looking at the optimisation and use of PDF documents.
Plans for the next few weeks
We’re starting work on our next batch of sites, moving from the planning phase to assessing the audits, restructuring and preparing for migration into T4.
