The top vote getter has been the templates topic.  After that, it's forms.

So if everyone is okay with this plan: I suggest we plan to focus primarily on a discussion and demos of template implementations.  If time permits, we could then do a session on forms.  (and if not, we can postpone that to a subsequent meeting)

Please consider showing your implementations of the new templates at this meeting.  I think if we're all brief, we'll have plenty of time to see a wide range of projects, which should be very useful as we discuss their outcomes and prepare for more implementations next year.

Kris

On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Kathy Jensen wrote:

Hi all,

I was out on Friday, so I'm just catching up to this conversation this morning. 

I see a lot of folks want to talk templates. I'd really welcome that. I'd be happy to hear about your experiences, what worked, what you think should change, and so on.

Kathy

On Nov 6, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Krista Gallagher wrote:

Here's my order of preference:

* 2009 university web templates - we're nearing the end of their first
year of adoption; who's using them and what have we learned?

* Best practices in form design

* 3rd party web tools, and informing university policy about their use
(Sound familiar? Our recent list thread tipped me about this one!)  e.g.
YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and many others.

* Google Analytics --- I don't mind contributing to this discussion
sometime soon, but my most recent implementations should have more time
to collect data so that my demos could be more meaningful

- Krista


Kristofer Layon wrote:
Hello,

Thursday Nov. 19 is just two weeks away.  What should we schedule for
our topic(s)?

My notes include these past suggestions:

* Drupal showcase - demos and tips re. this popular open source WCM platform
* UThink showcase - demos and tips re. this U Libraries blogging and
publishing tool, which uses the Movable Type platform
* Google Search Appliance
* Best practices in form design
* 2009 university web templates - we're nearing the end of their first
year of adoption; who's using them and what have we learned?

And, more recently:

* 3rd party web tools, and informing university policy about their use
(Sound familiar? Our recent list thread tipped me about this one!)  e.g.
YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and many others.
* Google Analytics --- I don't mind contributing to this discussion
sometime soon, but my most recent implementations should have more time
to collect data so that my demos could be more meaningful
* Unit and department web and database hosting needs (it would be great
to invite some OIT service providers / strategic planners to such a mtg.)

I'm sure there's plenty of other topic possibilities.  Please let me
know whether I should make an online form for voting on topics, or
whether we can come to a decision via the list itself.  Or, other ideas?
(Remember, I'm winging it here --- your advice is needed, not just on
topics but how we run this continuing education and networking effort)

Thanks for your help and suggestions!

Kris Layon
U of M Web Standards & Accessibility Workgroup
<https://wiki.umn.edu/view/CSSDEVwiki/>


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