Paul McGarvey
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Improving support for lead publishers during transition
Transitioning our content to the new CMS is a lot of work. The early part of the transition in particular involves lead publishers of departments and services across the University reviewing their content, deciding whether to transition it or not,...
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We're moving office
The Digital Marketing & Communications team is relocating from 2 South to the 4th floor of Wessex House (WH4.16) on Monday 20 July 2015. On Monday we'll be setting up our office so it may take us longer than usual...
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Building a boot camp for auditing web content
Auditing inventories can be a daunting task. Publishers auditing inventories as part of the transition into the new publishing app will have to review a lot of content while also having to consider content types and migration options. To help, we...
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Getting to grips with Data Protection
Data Protection isn’t the easiest subject to get your head round, but it’s essential that everyone at the University understand their responsibilities under the 1998 Act. The University recently updated its Data Protection policy, and the content on the current...
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User testing with staff
Following on from our user testing with students, we recently ran some testing with staff for a new website that collected all the online materials relating to Agresso - the purchasing system used by the University - ahead of a new...
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User testing with students – Dos and Don’ts
A colleague and I have been working on a new homepage for the Students site. In keeping with our new delivery principles, we have put user testing, along with data, front and centre in informing our decisions. We did two...
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My first Agile sprint - getting stuck into Scrum
This week I took part in my first Agile sprint. This was an entirely new experience for me as a) it is the first time my team has worked this way since I joined in January and b) I...
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Restructuring our Wiki IA
I have spent the past month tackling the sprawling Web Services Wiki. It felt significantly longer, especially as in the interim our department changed name, resulting in what is now officially the Digital Marketing and Communications Wiki space. Here is...
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The challenges of restructuring our Wiki
There is a strong feeling within the team that the Web Services Wiki needs a thorough overhaul. Having been tasked with looking at how we would restructure our Wiki pages, I identified three problems to be considered. 1) Mass of...