Web Professionals Catch Up – October 2023 Recap

This will be a low-key town-hall style Zoom meeting to discuss the future of the UNC Web Professionals Group and to share a little of what Team members learned at last week’s HighEdWeb conference in Buffalo.

Date: Friday, October 27
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Hosts: Rachell Underhill, Gia Branciforte, Paul Cardillo, Daniel Reeves

Presentation Recap and Notes

Agenda

• Welcome – Rachell
• We’re still here – Daniel
  • Depth and Breadth of group, goals
  • Previous presentations
• Who are you? – Gia
• High Ed Web Recap – Paul
• Questions and Feedback

Meeting Items

• Previous Web Professionals presentation examples
  • General topics for all
    • 3 Part Productivity System 
      • Date: March 15, 2019
    • Plain Language Matters 
      • Date: November 8, 2019
  • Digital topics for all
    • Proposed changes to web.unc.edu Hosting 
      • Date: February 13, 2020
    • Digital Signage 
      • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Tools and Resources at UNC 
      • Date: July 13, 2015
    • Video Production  
      • Date: October 15, 2014
    • HTML Email Newsletters  
      • Date: May 2, 2013
  • More advanced topics
    • Digital Asset Management Systems 
      • Date: October 16, 2018
    • Carolina Cloud Apps 
      • Date: September 15, 2015
    • Carolina Cloud Apps Version 3 
      • Date: February 16, 2017
  • Trainings
    • Introduction to PHP 
      • Date: February 5, 2011
    • Advanced Photoshop Training 
      • Date: March 15, 2010
  • Guests
    • Sina Bahram 
      • Date: September 29, 2011

During Meeting

Notes

• Attendees
  • Count: 42
• Rachell Underhill: Intro
  • History
  • Web Redesign for the Graduate School
  • History
    • Group History
      • UNC History
      • UNC Web History
    • Current Group
• Daniel Reeves: What we do
  • What we do overview
  • Examples of past presentations (see list above for more information)
• Gia Branciforte: Introduction
  • History
  • Current Engagement
    • No leadership level person currently
    • More collaborative
  • Polls and Survey
    • MS Teams polls
      • General about web management and campus resources
    • Qualtrics longer form about interest  
• Paul Cardillo: Introduction
  • History
  • Provides Office Hours for any Web.UNC issues
  • Teams and membership logistics
    • • Link to teams 
    • Information about how to get access to the team
  • High Ed Web Conference – Buffalo
    • The conference was the impetus for this meeting
    • We are all in a similar boat and trying to do much with few resources
    • Steering the Circus Presentation
    • Rachell Underhill’s Presentation
      • 6 minute video of the process she used in her redesign of the website
    • General Conversation about the conference
• Open Floor
  • Providing a space for all to talk about the conference or anything relevant
  • Group sharing
    • Networking groups around campus are coming back together
    • Web Professionals would love to connect with and collaborate on value to campus

Questions

• Question about scope of this group: As a custom web developer, will this group be beneficial for him?
  • Daniel Reeves described how the group has helped him in his role as a custom application developer.