Cooperative extension’s web presence

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Cooperative Extension’s Web Presence

Where, How and Why

Greg JohllDirector, CE Tech Services

History 101 - The web in Cooperative Extension

Why change? How is change happening? Where our web presence is headed. Wrap-up/questions.

Presentation Overview

The Stone Age

History 101

<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>My web site</TITLE></HEAD><BODY > <H1>Welcome to my site</H1>…</BODY></HTML>

The Stone Age

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• Technical• Time Consuming• Kind of like looking at the pictures from the 70’s where you had the big hair and a leisure suit (minus disco lights).

The Bronze Age

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Netscape Navigator Gold

The Bronze Age

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• Less, but still technical• Like blue jeans – don’t stand out and very functional.

The Industrial Age

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The Industrial Age

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• Efficient - Like a Model T• WYSIWYG•Focus on content, not design• First step towards content management system.

• Closed system• 3rd party application Contribute• Dressed up, but no place to go.•Not extensible

The Modern Age

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UW-Extension/UW Colleges

Integration4 Years

Modern Age

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SharePoint Intranet WordPress

FYI, Coop Connection, Counties

Why Change?

External audiences 51% visit rarely19% visit oftenMarketing and

education focusDrive people to

county offices

Internal audiences91% visit often9% visit rarelySharing of informationCommunicating with

colleagues

Rarely: Up to once a monthOften: Monthly to several times a day

Different audiences have different needs.

Reduce clutter Educational programming content focus Enable Web 2.0 access to content (RSS,

Embeds) Embrace social media

External Audience

Reduce clutter Leverage social networking concepts to

connect people and information◦ Build community◦ Improve communications◦ Knowledge repositories

Common platform for access to business processes

Enable online team/workgroup collaboration

Internal Audiences

WordPress◦ FYI

fyi.uwex.edu◦ Coop-Connection

blogs.ces.uwex.edu◦ Counties

counties.uwex.edu pepin.uwex.edu

How is change happening?

Purpose◦ Educational and/or informational content,

typically of a statewide interest (not internal business or administrative information)

Intended Audience◦ General Public◦ NOT colleagues, team members, administration

FYI http://fyi.uwex.edu/

Purpose 1◦ Internal communication (password protected) ◦ Intended Audience: Cooperative Extension

faculty/staff◦ Examples:

Updates from the Dean: blogs.ces.uwex.edu/dean/ Strategic Directions:

blogs.ces.uwex.edu/strategicdirections

Coop Connection http://blogs.ces.uwex.edu

Purpose 2◦ Administrative information or activities that are

not educational programming content (e.g. conferences)

◦ Intended Audience: General Public & Cooperative Extension faculty/staff

◦ Examples 2011 County Leadership:

blogs.ces.uwex.edu/leadershipconference WACEC 2011 State Coference:

blogs.ces.uwex.edu/wacec

Coop Connection http://blogs.ces.uwex.edu

Purpose◦ County office web presence

Audience◦ General public

Examples◦ http://dodge.uwex.edu/◦ http://bayfield.uwex.edu/

Counties http://counties.uwex.eduhttp://greenlake.uwex.edu

SharePoint

How is change happening?

Workspaces◦ Online collaboration spaces for groups/teams◦ Document library, calendars, lists, blogs, photo

library, discussion forums, simple gant charts, RSS reader

◦ Integrates with Microsoft Office 2007, 2010

◦ Not the final storage space for “final “documents meant to be found by others.

How is change happening?

MySite◦ My Profile – Facebook like page with information

about you. Status updates Directory information Overview, Org chart, Content (documents), Tags &

Notes, Colleagues, Memberships (workspaces)◦ My Content – Personal and Shared documents◦ My NewsFeed – Facebook like stream of activity by

others

How is change happening?

Intranet◦ Global site – main portal page to all of the

SharePoint network.◦ People search◦ Institutional processes◦ Knowledge repositories◦ Divisional discussion

How is change happening?

Public Portalwww.ces.uwex.edu

Legacy ColdFusion

Applications

Legacy Contribute

Sites

FYI Counties

Where’s this all headed?

Admin Sites that

Need Public

Presence

Coop Connection

Public/Private

Where’s this all headed?Internal

Authentication

External Authentication

Internal Authentication

Public Portalwww.ces.uwex.edu

Legacy ColdFusion

Applications

Legacy Contribute

Sites

FYI Counties

Admin Sites that

Need Public

Presence

Coop Connection

Public/Private

Public Internet

External Authenticatio

n

InternalCommunication

&Collaboration

Questions

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