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[ 1/16/2009 ]

Attached the file that Mark sent me, and pasted in below...

IS&T Publishing Group

2009 Q2 Publishing Group Summary

Mark Wiklund

 

Accomplishments

  • In Q2 2009, the IS&T Publishing Team was actively engaged on 52 different projects originating from all areas of IS&T. During the last quarter, we completed and published informational and procedural documentation in support of 15 projects that delivered value to the MIT Academic and Administrative community. An overview of all engagements includes
    • Student Support: Stellar functionality
    • Community wide: Outlook, OWA, Entourage, Calendaring, and Policies and Procedures for the Exchange Server implementation.
    • Administrative: COEUS 4.3.2 User Guides,
    • Mobile Devices: iPhone 3g, VoIP, Windows Mobile
    • IS&T Internal: S&T Website Redesign & Drupal CMS Implementation, Hermes, IS&T Newsletter, IS&T HR Site updates, DITR site updates, and Business Intelligence Requirements.

 

  • During Q2, the Web Production team reviewed and published a total of 232 content and/or design changes to IS&T web pages, created 81 new pages, archived 61 obsolete pages, and facilitated the research and resolution of over 400 user comments and queries entered into the IS&T web site.

 

  • The IS&T Publishing Team, in concert with ISDA, neared completion of Phase 1 of the IS&T Website Redesign project. Accomplishments include:
    • Development and configuration of the Drupal CMS environment
    • Planning and preparation for Training and Acceptance testing
    • Migration planning and preparation

 

Challenges for Q3

 

  • Complete and publish user documentation required to support the Exchange Email/Calendaring implementation. The focus will be on completing the policies documents as well as procedures for migrating to Exchange based calendaring.
  • Complete training and testing for the Drupal CMS installation and launch detailed Migration planning and development. Actual migration execution, testing, and go-live are scheduled for Q4.
  • Employ the Daptiv PPM tool to better plan and manage Publishing Team project engagements and resource allocation.

 

Work to Do Next

  • Complete Exchange policies and calendaring documentation
  • Complete Drupal training and testing and begin Migration planning
  • Pilot new publishing policies and workflows within Drupal.

 

 

 

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