2013 Annual Conference — October 6-9Do it Once, Do it Well: A Tale of Governance, Strategy and Engineering
Ballroom
This presentation will explore the strategies and challenges of delivering quality user experience and functionality across a university’s Web presence. The Web is being invented, still. As campus Web leaders, we can’t allow our efforts to stand still. Through shared governance, thoughtful strategies and quality engineering, we can continue to move our universities forward. UNL’s one-site approach to the Web, in which (nearly) all pages are built from the same codebase, provides unique advantages in content and service delivery. Today, the hard work of implementing a common codebase is complete. Governance and collaborative groups are in place and the old “template” discussion has shifted to a conversation about iterative improvement. Embracing the idea of “do it once and do it well,” UNL is documenting significant cost savings through a scaled approach, a consistent brand, mitigated risk, and a coherent user experience. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's recent entry into the Big Ten Conference has stimulated strategic thinking on campus.
Presenter
Bob Crisler
Director, Internet and Interactive Media, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Bob Crisler leads the overall web development effort of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as director of Internet and Interactive Media. He has been at UNL since 1992, first as a print designer, then, in 2000, its first full-time web developer. Crisler also leads the UNL Web Developer Network, a group of more than 300 web developers, and is interested in governance, access and baseball.
