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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Time to start documenting requirements!

There's a great Information Architecture tutorial that might be worth considering as we begin defining goals, audiences and content for this project. See what you think!

Genie might have some ideas for getting the proposal ready for the April 21 deadline.

posted by Michael @ 9:12 AM   2 comments

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  • At 9:32 AM, Blogger Michael said…

    To start us off, I've got two goals listed (that I think Jardine mentioned also):

    1) To communicate events, services and ongoing activities in the Blue Mountains community and beyond.

    2) To transition users from a dependence on emails and email groups to an active participation in a community website.

     

  • At 11:59 AM, Blogger Genie said…

    I do have some ideas Michael. Jardine and I have started making the proposal already.
    In my folder, called interestingly enough, Genie in the 3756 folder on S Drive [I know, I know, antiquated information management]
    I have placed a sample Proposal document. Have a look and make any suggestions for improvement.
    My take on what Mary wants for the website are on the previous blog.

     

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Thursday, March 24, 2005

A site to discuss the design of the website!

OK! I thought we could summarise what we all took away from the meeting with Mary from the Mountains community centre, as comments here below. Just do a brain dump!

Later on we can put them all together and formalise them in a document!

I'll add anyone who wants to be part of this project as a member so you can post too.

posted by Michael @ 3:20 PM   4 comments

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  • At 4:02 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    The main problem that Mary and her committee have to overcome is to decide the most effective way to promote the use of a new website.
    Perhaps Mary could engage some professional to assist with marketing strategies to encourage all the community group personnel to use the site and to feel that it suits their needs. Then Mary should discuss ways of how to achieve an interesting site from the IT professionals.
    Mary seems to have many ideas of proposed content.

     

  • At 4:07 PM, Blogger Michael said…

    Things that stuck out to me:

    * The purpose of the website is to communicate/disseminate community events, services and activities in the Blue Mountains and beyond

    * Needs to be easy to use. Probably best to email all posts out to people with the content of the post and a link to the site. Or as Dave said, email the actual HTML of the website... need to look at pros & cons.

    * A big part of the project will be helping people to make the transition from email to using a website. People need to see the benefit without being forced (i think!)

    * Would be good to conduct a usability study once we've got some ideas with some real users...

    * We said we'd get the proposal to Mary by the 21st of April

     

  • At 9:10 AM, Blogger Michael said…

    Nice work Jardine!

     

  • At 11:55 AM, Blogger Genie said…

    Great comments everyone! I like how well you all participated in this project. Much enthusiasm and wonderful ideas. Mary was thrilled at the response.
    Now, here are the issues as I see them [some have already been repeated here]

    1. The site needs to be as accessible and easy to use as possible so that all interested parties at MCRN and users of MCRN will participate and use the web site.

    2. One purpose of the site is to attempt to reduce the load in disseminating information to the community-which currently happens via email.

    3. The MCRN has an enormous contacts list, which needs to be included in the site, along with links to their web sites or emails if they do not have a site.

    4. The logo of the MCRN needs to be on the site- and Mary is open to us re-designing the logo.

    5. Michael has made a commitment to Mary that our class and ongoing classes will upgrade, add material and make changes to the web site.

    6. As Michael also mentioned, a proposal is to be presented to Mary on 21st April.

    If I have left anything out, please let us know.

    Again, congratulations on such wonderful participation in this project. There were fab ideas presented for us to all chew on and practice our web skills with.

     

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