NBIS Committee Meeting - Agenda for 3/20/97
1. Updates/status reports
UCIT -- end-of-year objectives
First meeting of E-COMM task force
Administrative Support Open House
Minerva upgrades; search improvements
1.5 Late insert into agenda: John Unsworth discussing "spam" originating
from UVa's English department and website of "English Papers"
advertising UVa as a sponsor
2. Webmaster issues, comments, requests
3. Discussion (brief) of questions for AAU Public Affairs meeting (see below)
4. Graphical & functional redesign of the top-level(s) of our website --
why, when, and how to proceed and related questions
5. Other
Here's the request from a colleague who's presenting next week at the Assn.
of American Universities public affairs meeting. Attendees are mostly
people in jobs like mine who are responsible for -- or at least think about
-- communication with all sorts of internal and external constituents.
"Advancement" means outreach for fund-raising, alumni and governmental
relations, and to some extent student recruitment, not just media
relations. I will have submitted preliminary answers to these questions by
the time we meet, but would like to hear some of your thinking in
preparation for the discussion at AAU. Thanks. Louise
>To: Fellow AAU Public Affairs Network Members
>From: Sharon Kha, University of Arizona
>
>We are going to spend some time together at our upcoming March meeting
>talking again about information technology and how it is changing patterns
>and styles of communication. As we did last year, I'd like to structure our
>talk around our collective experiences. And to prepare for this, I'd
>appreciate it if as many of you as possible would take a few minutes to think
>about the following questions:
>1. What was the most successful use of technology you experienced this year?
>
>2. Were you able to use technology in a proactive way to do damage control,
>or communicate urgent news quickly, or in some other crisis-management sense?
>
>3. Has your relationship to your target audiences changed in any way as a
>result of technology? (Has it become more interactive, more personal, more
>frequent etc., more strained, more impersonal etc.)
>
>4. What trends do you see in the use of technology for advancement?
>
>5. Do you have any other observations, comments etc. about this subject
>area?
>
>Also, if you have a web page that you think turned out especially well,
>please bring an overhead with you to the conference, and I'll attempt to
>incorporate it into our discussion. (And please send me the URL via e-mail
>beforehand, so I can look at it online first.)
Louise Dudley, Director
University Relations
University of Virginia