Its nice to see your work come to fruition
When I started here at UH (three years ago this coming August) my primary mandate was to give librarians and staff the ability to create and maintain their own content on the library website in a scalable, easy to use way. I’m starting to feel like we are very close to achieving that goal. While librarians have been able to edit their own content for some time, the system really didn’t make it as easy as it could be for them. Over the last six months we have made significant improvements to our homegrown CMS in terms of usability and functionality. We’ve also overhauled it so that certain functions are driven by separate open source systems we’ve installed. The library news is now a WordPressMU blog whose feed is pulled back into the site proper.
Over the next 6-9 months we hope to do more of this integration work. Bringing content from the blogs to the website and vice versa. The goal – only put data in one place – ever – period. The biggest challenge to this is our course data that should be in our ILS. But I think that maybe I’ve got this problem in hand. Only time will tell, but I really can’t wait to show things off in the fall.
Congrats Karen, keep up the good work! :-)