Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Blogging to redesign the website

Maybe Ohio University can learn something from their in-state rival...

Found on collegewebeditor.com

Blogging to redesign the website

Here is a very good idea from The Ohio State University (thanks to Will Richardson, the K-12 blog guru from Weblogg-Ed for the tip) .

The Communication and Marketing Department at OSU has been using a web blog “to inform the Ohio State community about the process behind an upcoming redesign of (the) web site’s front door, as well as associated, new second-level pages.”

The OSU redesign webblog is a central place to share design sketches, project updates and suggestions. Thanks to the “comment” blog feature, any stakeholder who follows the project can easily give feedback.

I really think this blog beats the traditional redesign committee’s status reports and meetings, because it gives every stakeholder a chance to look at the design in the context it’s supposed to work - on a computer screen - and to give instant - yet articulated - written feedback.

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