Content Tools: Build or Buy?

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Michael Vale Head of Business and Network Systems
Sarah Larder Web Development Officer MIMEO
Co-ordinator
Managing Information for Management the
Electronic Office (MIMEO)
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Context

• Executive Information System group
• Data Warehousing/Reporting Tools
• Document Management - Senior Management Group
• Availability

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Definitions

• What its not
• internal www site
• What it is
• a system for managing internal communication
  (managed both by the institution and the
  individual via groupware)
• MIMEO - Managing Information for Managers the
  Electronic Office
• ...everyone is an information manager at Edge Hill

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Issues

• Staff development
• PushPull
• Culture
• Management
• Interactivity
• Management buy in
• Lack of a culture of sharing
• e.g. tutors initially unwilling to share teaching
  materials with colleagues

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Issues
Non

• Accessibility
• Security
• Legacy Systems

Technical issues can be overcome - BUT we do not
have the development time to reinvent the wheel...
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Content Context

• Intranet
• for staff only
• available only on campus
• www
• whole wide world inc. Edge Hill students
• Secure/Restricted Access (Extranet)
• GroupWare
• GroupWise 5 (Extranet/Intranet?)

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Early Takers

• Senior Management Group
• Management Information Systems Project Group
• Quality Unit
• Committees
• Staff Development

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The search for the killer contentCarrot and
stick approach

• Carrot
• For providers - content provision - Health and
  Safety, Disaster Recovery, Forms
• For users - desktop access to material previously
  hard to access (pull from managed environment)
• Stick
• For providers - annual quality plans - management
  compulsion
• For users - select institutional info available
  on the intranet only

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Discussion

• Definitions - following on from earlier
  discussion
• Content Context - define in broad terms for your
  institution
• Killer Content - what is the killer content at
  your institution? How do you manage this ?
  (compulsion, push vs pull etc.)

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Thank You
Michael Vale
Sarah Larder