It seems timely to launch a new blog for Web Services on the same day our team has moved (from Marketing and Communications) to Corporate Communications Services. In reality it’s just a name change but it does demonstrate that we are a communications service and that our role is to get information ‘out there’.
So who are we and why are we blogging? We’re the central Web Team for the University of Bath. We develop the website(s), we liaise with departments, we look at new technologies and how they can make life easier but most importantly we communicate information. So with that in mind a blog fits neatly into our remit. This is our attempt to enhance communications with each other, with our peers and with the community (at the University) we provide a service for.
Read what you will, comment or feedback but as with any good communications service you’ll find us all approachable for a face to face discussion too.
Mike Nolan
Excellent to see you catching up with Edge Hill in the blogging game
I look forward to reading your posts!
March 3, 2008 at 10:46 pm
David Barker
Alison, might it be worth putting up some of the points raised by the attendees of the Web Services event? Then people will know what was raised and how your team might intend dealing it.
In my opinion and as I have said to you, I did think it a very worthwhile event and my compliments for staging it
but the University’s web pages are twin facing, external to current and potential parties and internal to provide important and easily accessible information for Staff and Students and for Staff and Students to share their knowledge with others. We should think of ourselves as a corporate data base, each of us containing important records and fields of information, which together form the entity which is the University. Without the information we each possess the University is only so many expensive buildings and the web pages pointless. Thus the web pages should help to join us all up to be greater than the sum of our parts. 
April 1, 2008 at 10:55 am
Alison Wildish
I’d certainly encourage colleagues to use this blog to feed back following the event.
With regard to your comment please be assured we do consider internal and external information to have equal importance. We do have to start somewhere though and looking at the external requirements will give us a good basis to do this.
April 2, 2008 at 1:51 pm