>
> - Is it strictly owned, controlled, and managed by your
> Communications
> department?
We don't have one of those :-) IT works with the Director's Office and
Development to jointly approximate this function.
> - Does Academic Administration have the opportunity to alter the
> site
> (with strict permissions)?
Moving to decentralized content management was critical for us to move
forward. We are about the same size and shape as a small liberal arts
college. The bottlenecks were huge.
>
> - How much of a role does the internal Tech staff have with the
> site?
In transition as we ramp up our launch with Silverpoint. We have done
it all in house with varying degrees of success since Al Gore invented
the Internets.
The last few years, more resources were made available to address long
deferred needs and things improved accordingly. We have been using a
CMS the University runs (WebExpress) as we decentralized page
management after the Webmaster spot was created and filled. We moved
toward Silverpoint this year for intranet services, unique data
integration challenges due to our University affiliation that other
K-12 portal vendors wouldn't touch, and other services specific to
K-12 that our higher ed colleagues here on the UC campus either
didn't really understand or weren't able/ready to develop with us. We
are just about done with the design phase and moving quickly and
happily into implementation.
> - Do you employ a FT/PT webmaster?
Yes, thank heaven. He manages blogs, trains teachers on iWeb, creates
a lot of content, manages the calendar process, formats e-newsletters,
manages the photo galleries/archives, helps coordinate activities
among all the different web site stakeholder groups, and much more. He
will have plenty of work to do even after the move to Silverpoint is
completed in the next couple of months.
>
> - Who within the school attended training on how to utilize the CMS?
Me, the Webmaster, and those responsible for maintaining level 1 and 2
web pages, about 25 people in all. We don't manage all pages via CMS,
though.
Curt Lieneck
IT Director, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
>
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