Extend Your Reach In Tough Times

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Extend Your Reach In Tough Times
Mark Wetton30/11/09
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Document Management
CMS
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Hosting well take the strain

• http//tinyurl.com/http-hosting
• Not for profit
• A complimentary end to end service
• Idea design build integrate
  host report
• Application, Web Database
• Shared or bespoke
• Windows or Unix
• Help with third party's and funding
• Managed Projects and Services

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Recent Examples

• Digital Curation Service
• Migration of website, forum and wiki
• Electrical Engineering
• Key staff left, we helped fill the gap and
  develop school software
• Calum Maclean
• Scottish Ethnology and Gaelic Folklore
• 13,000 manuscripts searchable xml database
• Help submission of new bid for 2009/10
• Tristan Veterinary Software
• Hosted 3rd party software
• Help with integration to UoE Finance systems

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MyEd large footfall, quick wins

• http//tinyurl.com/yh7jmk6
• Students use it all the time
• 65-79 of staff also login regularly
• 1.2 million logins per month
• Priority enhancements
• Upgrade and drag and drop
• Click tracking
• Event booking
• 28 unique groups advertising
• Integration with websites and Polopoly
• Requirements for Roberts funding
• Joining websites and applications
• http//tinyurl.com/yclotfm

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Easy to make Easy to find
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Application Usability Consultancy

• http//tinyurl.com/ydlupas
• 81 of shoppers said convenience was an
  important factor of e-commerce. 59 only shop at
  sites that they are used to and comfortable with.
  Gartner Group.

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Recent Examples

• MyEd-EASE registration
• Before
• After
• DAS Alumni self-service channels
• "We're currently putting into place all of Liza'a
  recommendations.
• "Thanks, I've read through it and it looks very
  useful, just the kind of thing we need."

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Podcasting and Streaming

• http//tinyurl.com/y8ufrud
• Easy to use
• "The new streaming service is very easy to use
  for simple podcasting. It is a huge improvement
  on the old service and makes it possible for
  podcasting to be done by technophobes.History
  Classic and Archaeology
• 50 customer groups and growing
• audio/video files HTML
• Links with central VLEs, wiki and Polopoly
• Publishes to iTunesU
• http//tinyurl.com/ycxu935 (Global health)

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Streaming across worlds
This kind of innovation is what I've loved about
studying at Edinburgh - Youenn Leborgne student
(BBC News 25/11)
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Graphics first impressions!

• http//tinyurl.com/yer2pnw
• Print design
• Web page and image design
• http//www.media.is.ed.ac.uk/portfolio/
• Marketing and branding design
• Illustration, cartoon and animation
• http//tinyurl.com/y9plzpp
• eFlyers
• CD/DVD cover desgn

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Theme Builder Wikis tarted up
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Emerging Services

• Document Management
• Web based, scanning, workflow, annotation, search
  etc
• Jira
• Helps track issues and testingintegrates with
  wiki
• Lecture Capture
• Audio, video and screen capture. Not for
  everyone, popular with students and some staff.
• Discussion Forums
• Threaded discussion similar to EUSA service

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http//tinyurl.com/apps-services