Nick Besseling outlines a process for developing web and intranet guidelines using a wiki. Obvious benefits are avoiding the 'style nazi' label, and getting staff involved and committed to standards—everywhere an issue, notoriously so in universities. Wikis were born for...
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Intranets with 6 million pages
Intranet Design Annual 2007 from the Nielsen Norman Group contains this startling statement: Intranets are definitely getting bigger. Across the first three Design Annuals (2001-2003), the average intranet contained 200,000 pages; across the three most recent Annuals (2005-2007), the average...
Listen up, students of the world
Maybe you thought universities were a little slow to recognise the value of podcasts, given the popularity of iPods with students? Jimmy Ruska has listed his top 10 (+ 15) podcasting universities, starting with Stanford (134 lectures and 3 complete...
Big four prove their worth
QWICKIT is based on this premise: you can double the usability of web content by teaching writers just four things. This week my students have demonstrated that this super-streamlined approach works—brilliantly. My online students have just one week's study to...