Library Web Chic

Day in the Life of a Web Manager

David King has a really good post about what a web manager does as
part of their daily job duties. Being a web master myself, I had to
smile when I read it. If you ever wondered what those of us who are web managers, this is a good starting list.

Just what does a web manager do? Here's a list of stuff I did at work today:

• Checked email, bloglines, news sites (I really need to aggregate some news feeds). I did this constantly throughout the day.
• Met with supervisor about different projects - once formally in her office, a couple more times informally around the office.
• Added our new interim executive director's name and email to our contact us page (still need to check the spelling…).
• Had email and phone discussions with reference staff about a tax season article for our website.
• Read about WebTrends 7 on their website.
• We
  filter - I checked some unblocking requests to see if the sites were
  porn or not… they were so they stayed blocked (how do you like that
  for a line in my job description?).
• Started working on the 2005-2006 web budget.
• Went for coffee.
• Updated text on a page and closed the helpdesk ticket (we track all IT requests).
• Discussed possible presentation ideas for an upcoming presentation, and sent proposals.
• Started
  designing a new website - did that the rest of the day (ate lunch
  somewhere in here, too). Involved creating and editing images, looking
  at CSS books and hacking CSS off our public website's style sheet, and
  working in Dreamweaver.

I have lots of days where I do very similar
things to David. With my job change I do less content management now.
Although yesterday I had to update our schedule of classes. Recently,
my days have involved at least 2-3 hours of writing and debugging code
or some other form of troubleshooting. I've also spent quite a few
hours working with our OpenURL resolver and writing privacy policies
for the library's website. Just a few more things that are all in a web
managers day's work.