2009-05-15
From Uweb
Meeting Trigger
Meeting Attendees
- Fred Rodriguez, AgIT
- Arthur Oakley, ITS
- David Smith, Div. of Finance IT Services
- Carlos Carbo, CIS
- Mark Mace, Dept. of Residence Life
- Jim VanBeek, PPRI
- Donald St. Martin, Coll. of Engineering
- Robert Stackhouse
- Rob Williams, Entomology
- Jeff Carouth
- Erick Beck
- Craig Thompson, CIS Communications and Marketing
Proposed Meetings and Talks
- Have 1 meeting per month with a topic
- Don't feel you need to attend all of the meetings, but keep checking back on the wiki for the next meeting topic, or new information
- After any kind of meeting, bring the notes back here to the group so the information can be shared with everybody
- See what kind of media equipment is available (video cameras, microphones, etc.) so that we can get meeting/talk content up online
List of Proposed Meetings and Talks
Voting for Proposed Meetings and Talks
- Use an online survey to figure out what people are interested in hearing/talking about anonymously.
- Survey Monkey? [Writing Center has a pro account we can use. --S.Leary]
- MediaWiki plugin?
- May ask Student Life Studies what they use. They do a lot of surveys.
Attracting People to the Group
Person to Person Contact
- Get notification from TAMU HR when new designers, developers, IT administrators, tech writers, etc. get hired.
- See if there are students on the list who would be interested in getting a table for UWeb at the Open House in the fall.
- This may require a UWeb student organization
- Ask Howard Eilers to inform his students about UWeb in his Web Design class
Online Presence
- Put UWeb link on individual's blogs
- Use UWeb link as your homepage in online profiles if you don't have your own homepage
- MySpace
- Linked In
- etc.
- Are Wiki profile pages publicly viewable? OpenID? OAuth?
- TAMU UWeb Twitter Account?
- Write a script that tweets last edited page of UWeb wiki every 5 min or so?
- Invite people you know to join UWeb Facebook group
- Keep the listserv active, ask questions of your fellow IT staff
Groups to Look to for Inspiration and Guidance in Shaping UWeb
- Michigan UWeb
- UNL Web Developer Network
Enhancing Discoverability of Information in IT/Designer/Developer Knowledge Base
- Hook search.tamu.edu to UWeb wiki search box
Sharing Workload
Keeping the Conversation Going
- Get people to consume Recent Changes RSS feed and others to moderate the wiki every couple of hours or so.
- You've got to contribute content in order for people to respond to it
