2013 Annual Conference — October 6-9Web Reboot Project - Lessons Learned
Ballroom
The Web Reboot project combined implementation of a web CMS (Omniupdate) with a responsively redesigned web site for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The project team consisted of a partnership between IT, University Relations, Center for Teaching, and the Library. This session will discuss project organization, team structure, forging campus partnerships, success factors, training plans, what we would do differently if we were doing this again, and generally lessons learned. The participate will take away an understanding of the project skills needed to successfully implement a CMS and to launch redesigned web site. Lessons learned from this project are applicable to ongoing maintenance of web sites as well as to software implementations projects of all kinds. Omniupdate was the first CMS implemented campus wide at UTC. The last web redesign was 5 years previous. UTC also uses Word Press for blogging and continued using it in combination with Omniupdate for the web site. The project also included implementation of EMS Master Calendar for event publication on the web site, building on an existing EMS Enterprise implementation. UTC uses web editors from each department to maintain the University web site, so there were nearly 400 individuals to train and to lead through converting web page contents to the new CMS.
Presenter
Richard Gambrell
Director Strategic Systems, IT, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Richard Gambrell has a masters in Sociology from UC Davis and 30 years of experience in IT, including systems, networks, applications, databases, programming, Banner ERP, web development, and project management. His work life has included working for UC Davis, Xavier of Louisiana, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, as well as time self-employed as a IT consultant.
