thinner: let the portal fit the need (the directors cut)

Thinner: Let the Portal Fit the Need (Director’s Cut)

myMICA

2001: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.12002: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.4 2004: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 8.4+2007: PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal 9

“Thinner”

The “MICA Web” is not simply the college’s “Web site,” but the full range of digital

communications vehicles

Establish trust by supporting peoples tasks and information needs

Develop guidelines and design patterns to support distributed publishing

How to permanently identify business process and information owners?

This is the Gordian knot – anyone with a sword see me after this presentation.

Publish with genres in mind

How to define segmentation and overlap? . . . young learner, precollege student,

prospect, applicant, student, resident, alumni, employee, parent, lifelong learner, volunteer,

donor, trustee . . .

Create spaces and functions for members of the MICA community to connect online

How to connect owners to audiences ? Once they are connected, how do you get them to communicate with one another?

(Hint: don’t ask IT to send them an email.)

Success?

Announcements/blog

Faculty grades online

Information supporting transactions

Online enrollment

myMICA for life

Refining myMICA

Questions?