For department staff

Basic features, plus:

  • Easily contribute content of all kinds.
  • Update professional information.
  • Share restricted documents in protected area.

In addition, for departmental staff assistants:

Be intuitive

  • Cross-platform, cross-browser toolset.
  • Simplified interface that provides only those functions needed for required tasks.
  • Easily author and edit departmental information, faculty and staff profiles, and public events with little training; often on a tight deadline, with little tech support and low hardware needs.
  • Reminders when owned content is becoming stale.

Be useful

  • Manage multiple sites, for department, professors, centers, projects.
  • Basic content includes department mission, office hours, public events, biographies, and general department information.
  • Easily interact with online specialist for major reorganization or editing of multimedia content.
  • Automatic redirection of moved pages.

Be engaging

  • Easy-to-use repository for videos, images, other media.

Be personable

  • Combine e-mail announcements with Web archives so all departmental communications can be accessed in a single place, as chosen by individuals, based on their interests.

Be welcoming

  • Create and update department events listings, with multiple sponsors and cross-department classification.

Be meaningful

  • Help people find the knowledge and learning experiences that matter to them.

In addition, for the departmental communications specialist:

  • Easily create, edit, compress, and publish complex elements of departmental site, requiring a lot of multimedia (images, video, audio) as well as structured data (such as events and schedules)
  • Apply technical knowledge to developing advanced functions.
  • Create Web content for different clients within department and publish in an easy-to-find and easy-to-use interface.
  • Use digital cameras and media workstation to produce engaging audio, video, and image multimedia of departmental events.
  • Intuitive process for uploading objects and adding structured data.
  • Manages metadata about, and access to, media assets; shares some images with everyone, others might be shared with certain terms, with certain people, for certain periods of time.

In addition, for event coordinators:

  • Easily plans, promotes, and coordinates an event, for any constituency.
  • Ability to check upcoming events, even those in early planning, for conflicts.
  • Easy way to promote events to people already interested in the topic.
  • Registration and ticket sales integrated into the environment, so people can track the events they attended.
  • Automatically send reminders or updates.
  • Post audio, video, images, and transcripts from events.
  • Similar process for scheduling interviews with future students and employees, as well as career interviews.
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