Communications Workpackage Update, June 2009 July 8, 2009
Posted by sarahhorrigan in : Comms, News , trackbackAs part of the Communications Workpackage for the JISC SHARE project, we thought it would be useful if once a month we gave an update of what we’ve done / got planned for the near future and shared that with the team. So, here’s our update of what we’ve been up to during the past month:
General Update
The acronym “SHARE” will be used as the name of the project and the unique tag “NTUSHARE” will be used for any social media comments / resources / images / videos etc. I’ve written a brief article announcing the acronym and you can find it on this site. I should also mention that you can subscribe to this website using its RSS feed or track a tag too if you want to find out about a particular element of the project! If you’d like to know more about how RSS works then you might find this video useful:
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Ian Mathers, D2L, will be joining the Communications Workpackage group. Thank you for agreeing to be part of the group, Ian.
There will be a section on the eLearning Community Website for the SHARE project which is currently being processed by Web Development. This area will contain static information for the project and link to this site which will contain news, updates and dynamic web 2.0 content.
We are currently testing an internal Confluence wiki and will be comparing it to the OpenSource wiki “TikiWiki” which will come as part of the external web host package as soon as that is set up.
An external web host which offers both an affordable hosting service together with excellent service levels and is a green energy web host – which fits well with NTU’s top university place in the UK’s Green League – has been sourced. We hope to get this set up within the next two to three weeks.
We will also be putting together a communications briefing paper once we have made a decision on the wiki which will best serve the project’s needs and let everyone know about that as soon as we can.
The issue of using NTU branding needs to be explored as a priority and a decision made on its acceptable use on the project website etc.
Actions for Project Team
We need to get photographs of every person listed on the Project team page. If you already have a suitable photograph (head and shoulders shot preferred), could you send it to me or elearning@ntu.ac.uk? If you don’t have a photo available, let us know and we’ll arrange to get one taken.
We would like the workpackage leads to have access to http://elearnntu.wordpress.com (our temporary project website home) in order for them to be able to post monthly updates about their workpackage (details on an approach to doing this will be provided). It will help keep the flow of communications going and be a quick and easy way to keep everyone – both internal and external to the project – informed about what we’re up to. If you already have a WordPress account, please let us know the username so we can add you to the site, if you don’t then let us know that too and we’ll get it arranged!
A final thing to look out for is that we will be arranging to talk to each of the workpackage leads to get an overview of their workpackage to put on the wiki / website – we’ll try to get this sorted out soon so that it is ready to be put in place once we’ve made a decision on which wiki we’ll be using.
Any questions about any of the above, do get in touch with Marek or me.
Sarah, July 2009
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