With our survey of college newsrooms wrapping up this week, Sunday’s conference call focused mainly on logistics. We’re getting ready to go from solely information-gathering to actually doing stuff.
If you still haven’t taken our survey, please go do it now. It will close on Friday Oct. 10, so don’t delay. We’ve received a lot of responses, but could use a lot more. The better we know your needs, the better we can help each other. So spread the word. We’ll compile the results and plan to share them next week.
The survey will be used as a guide in choosing projects – What to code, to write, to offer? What CMS(s) to support? Decisions should begin to be settled next week, then the real work can begin. After discussing a range of ideas, we’re prioritizing by crafting a list of specific CMS must-haves.
Other than that, there’s tidying up and organizing to be done all around. This Web site will get a face-lift soon, for a cleaner presentation. Look for more topical blogging, like the recent WordPress post, to come. If you want to hear minutia discussed, audio of most of the hour-plus conference is attached.
We also welcomed two new people on the call: Miles Skorpen of the online-only Daily Gazette at Swarthmore College and David Estes of the Django-powered The Daily at the University of Washington. Both bring experience from successful, custom-built sites, so it’s great to have them on board.
As always, we’re open to suggestions and contributions. Get in touch.
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