Busting Barriers 2 New EWD Projects

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Busting Barriers 2 New EWD Projects

• CMA Users Meeting
• February 22, 2006

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Two New Projects

• Foreign Language Content Consolidation
• Disability Resources Web Site
• Enterprise endeavors led by eMichigan and
  assisted by the Statewide Web Support Team- all
  CMA Authors and Admins

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What is driving this project?

• We want to reach as many citizens as possible
• We want to be Best of the Web for State Web Sites
• We want to accommodate any customer who might
  need assistance using State services

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Foreign Language Site Tasks

• New navigation category on the SOM Portal has
  been created
• Identify foreign language content and apps across
  agencies
• Associate this content to the appropriate
  category
• Organize the content by themes

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Foreign Language SiteCompleted Tasks

• New navigation category on the SOM Portal has
  been created
• Identify foreign language content and apps across
  agencies
• Associate this content to the appropriate
  category
• Organize the content by themes

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Foreign Language Site Completed Tasks

• New navigation category on the SOM Portal has
  been created
• SOM-LANGUAGES
• Sub-category for SPANISH
• with categories for FORMS and DOCUMENTS

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Foreign Language Site Completed Tasks

• Identify foreign language content and apps across
  agencies
• Over 200 pieces of content have been identified
  by agency and eMI staff
• Spanish and Arabic have the most content

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Foreign Language SiteCompleted Tasks

• Associate this content to the appropriate
  category
• Agency staff has helped associate the content
  inventory to the Spanish category

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Foreign Language SiteRemaining Tasks

• Associate content to the appropriate category on
  an ongoing basis
• Create Theme Categories for Content
• Repeat these steps for other Languages.

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Disability Resources

• Goal to assist those citizens with disablities
• Help make all Web applications and sites
  available to all users
• Assist agencies in planning and designing new Web
  applications and sites
• Insure our services can be used by the largest
  audience possible

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Disability Resources Web Site

• Driven by the Michigan Commission on Disability
  Concerns
• Assistance by eMichigan
• Content contributions from all agencies

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Disability Resources Web Site

• Steps to Implementation
• Identify content related to disability services
• Ask agencies to inventory content on their sites
  related to disability resources
• Submit lists of this content (URL Content ID)
  to eMichigan
• Build out site and associate content
• Link will appear on the portal home page.