Tools for project training

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Tools for project training

• Example site map
• Instructions for building site map
• Template for web pages
• Example team charter
• Each other
• Laptops and projectors to take notes with
• Plan to be able to post all your documents to
  intranet in December or early January
• Plan on a Intranet / CommonSpot training just
  before you can post documents
• Remember, developing best practice documents
  takes time
• Plan to have a quiet launch of intranet during
  the spring, probably during spring break

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How to build your site map

• Identify your audiences
• Identify the section of your topic you will
  address
• Identify the pages to write (include some pages
  targeted at clients and some at peers)
• For each page, identify the questions that page
  answers. Think like people in your audiences
• Use those questions to word the topics in your
  navigation
• One page can be under more than one topic, but
  each page must have a primary topic
• Try to have between 5 and 15 pages under each
  topic
• You can list narrower topics under broader topics

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Homework

• Have chair send me your project documents at end
  of class
• I need final site maps for the sections you are
  developing ASAP
• CommonSpot allows a review process for all
  content before it goes live. Have your chair tell
  me what review process your team would like. It
  may be different for pages intended for peers
  than for pages intended for clients.
• Send me your pages once they are near final draft
  so we can start using them to test site. (Give me
  feedback on the templates at the same time.)