{"id":1505,"date":"2016-02-12T10:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T10:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2016-02-12T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T10:58:27","slug":"team-update-1-12-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/02\/12\/team-update-1-12-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Update: 1 \u2013 12 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again \u2013 read on to find out what we\u2019ve been up to over the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>Go Mobile programme<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/sciencecentral\/\">Science Central website<\/a> went live on Friday 5 February.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve handed over the Employers site to the site editors who are currently working on the content in T4 and sourcing new assets.<\/p>\n<p>Jane and Lisa are building and tagging up the Careers website to get it ready for migration to T4. They\u2019re also doing a first pass edit of the content to get it ready to hand over to site editors.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re planning the <strong>induction of some of our new starters<\/strong> (March 2016) \u2013 there\u2019s a lot for them to learn about working in our team and the Go Mobile programme.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be <strong>advertising for one more Web Content Officer role<\/strong> in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<h2>Skills development<\/h2>\n<p>Gareth and Emma B have completed their project management training \u2013 they and are now fully-fledged Certified Scrum Masters and Agile Practitioners. Well done Gareth and Emma!<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h2>Office Move \u2013 all change!<\/h2>\n<p>A quick heads up that the Corporate Web Team will be <strong>relocating in mid-March<\/strong> from Level 5 of Kings Gate to the ground floor of the <strong>Daysh Building<\/strong> in the space formerly occupied by Combined Honours. This ties in with our need to work in an Agile way. We\u2019re therefore moving to a more collaborative space where our progress can be made visible on walls and whiteboards.<\/p>\n<p>The new office will also mean that we can more easily assemble as a team every day to <strong>monitor progress and troubleshoot problems<\/strong>. We will of course let everyone know when we have a firm date for the move.<\/p>\n<h2>Design and Technical developments<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/video\/\">Video Wall <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/tour\/\">Central Virtual Tours website <\/a>went live on 11 February. The Virtual Tours website now includes optimised versions of the tours that work on mobile devices.<\/p>\n<h2>Campaigns and web developments<\/h2>\n<p>Steve has been working on a recruitment website for the new batch of Graduate Ambassadors &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/sage\/jointheteam\/\">Join the Team<\/a>, which\u00a0went live last week.<\/p>\n<h2>Training and support<\/h2>\n<p>We ran our first <strong>web editor community event <\/strong>on Wednesday 3 February.\u00a0This session was for editors whose sites have been through the Go Mobile treatment and are now live. We shared some<strong> tips for using the new content management system<\/strong> and looked at some content types that we\u2019ve developed since we began the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Find out what one of the editors who attended the event thought in our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/02\/10\/go-mobile-web-editor-community-event-a-guest-post-by-anna-jenner\/\">Go Mobile web editor community event guest post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we\u2019ve received <strong>35 support requests<\/strong> through the <a href=\"https:\/\/gateway.ncl.ac.uk\/idp\/AuthnEngine\">NU Service Helpdesk<\/a> and have <strong>resolved 15<\/strong> of them.<\/p>\n<h2>Plans for the next few weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Over the next few weeks we\u2019ll be busy getting ready for our office move and continuing work on the first batch of sites in Phase 2 of Go Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time again \u2013 read on to find out what we\u2019ve been up to over the past couple of weeks. Go Mobile programme The Science Central website went live on Friday 5 February. We\u2019ve handed over the Employers site &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/2016\/02\/12\/team-update-1-12-february-2016\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-do","tag-team-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}