Good point, Sara. Makes me curious about what kinds of ideas our Content Strategy keynote speaker is going to have MinneWebCon. And I say that honestly, not as a plug. It's a huge issue that isn't very well solved. Sara Hurley wrote: > I have sort of a practical question about this (not disagreeing with > either of you on this, and the usefulness of this, and not wanting to be > a downer) - > What content do we collaborate on? Who makes the decision? What staff is > responsible for coordinating efforts? Who owns the content? > > I know that isn't the fun stuff to think about, but it's one of the > things that stands in the way of system-wide stuff. And as someone who > has recently been a part of a college-wide web integration, managing > that kind of content integration is really, really tough. Especially > when non-tech stakeholders get involved in protecting "their" content. > > S > > Brian Hayden wrote: >> On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Zachary Johnson wrote: >> >>> Valid point... and to support what both you and Andre have said, >>> maybe we need the opportunity to setup landing pages for relevant >>> content more automatically... >>> >>> umn.edu/H1N1 could bring users to a page with important content and >>> links to other UMN sites for more details. >>> >>> something like that? >> >> I think that'd be fantastic. >> >> Here's a hackish thought for you... there could be UMN wiki pages that >> are just aggregators of links around the U for specific topics... and >> each of these could have a z.umn.edu short url, like... z.umn.edu/h1n1 >> ... >> >> Sorry, my inner Rube Goldberg took over for a second. ;) >> >> -Brian > -- ______________________________ Zachary Johnson * Web Manager Student Unions & Activities (612) 624 - 7270 http://www.sua.umn.edu/