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• Paul met Claire Williams and Ann Thomson on 7/5/15
• They will both be involved, as they have different perspectives and different relationships to other staff and students.
• Their expectation are very much aligned with ours, as to what can be achieved in WIP
  • Schools to retain their identity but become a part of the faculty site
  • Important information needs to be maintained better and only once, but be reused as and where required
  • For their UG students they believe that subject to programme is the discovery journey and then later on can learn about schools and the faculty.
  • They appreciate the confusion for students with information in multiple places, and/or in inconsistent places and formats.
  • Subjects are for marketing (and therefore need marketing expertise to get the content right)
  • Want to promote good work/news/etc, but acknowledge that they need web-literate help to do this well
  • They want students in (following rounds of) workshops, alongside staff, so each users group hears the others
• They see their site as being about growing and supporting a community. Might also apply to schools?
• Schools have a strong sense of identity and are likely to resist anything that undermines or threatens this. They believe this sentiment is so strong that they were (initially) unable to identify even one school representative to invite to the first workshop.
• They feel that PG might need different treatment (they want to market VBS, not subjects, not programmes and not schools)
• Will speak with Dean (Bob Buckle) about WIP being an opportunity to advance his wider management change agenda. He is likely to speak to Madeleine to identify higher level objectives/goals/messages.
  • That said, they believe that he will be a champion of this initiative and help identify key school people to participate in the first workshop (even with the thorny school issue)
• No major web work or major change initiatives planned.
• Keen to have us work with them ASAP.

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• Paul met Megan Sellars on 11/5/15
• Johan has asked her to pick this up and run with it. He has les interest in the web work, knows that others have more interest and ability, and trusts them to do a good job.
• While this meeting was in the context of Science, she reports to Mike Wilson (Pro Vice-Chancellor of three faculties (Science, Engineering, and Architecture and Design)) and will seek some involvement across all three of the workshops, even if it is only an awareness or visibility of the progress and content.
• Sam Fisher will also participate
• She believe that the timing is good, in that senior staff have been thinking about recruitment, publications, communications, etc. Maybe the web has been seen as a second (and poorer) cousin to the publications (except for international)?
• She will discuss with Dave Harper (Dean of Science) about who best to involve/invite.
• She requested that school staff join the faculty workshop, even if the number goes above 6.
• Psychology is probably the school to watch out for, in that they have done more "unique" things to raise awareness/profile (e.g. staff with WordPress sites to profile their research and publications activities).
  • This school is actively trying to attract good PG students (based on those who want to study a specific thing that Victoria has an expert in.
  • Also of interest because it can be studied in a BSc or a BA (in FHSS).
• She would like to see a clearer marketing focus in the web information (along with content/details (that ought not be in the publications) if and when somebody wants to access it).
• She believes that there is a general excitement about refreshing the web content/style, even if people do not yet know exactly what this means.