You Broke It, You Bought It

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Hi.

Tim SenftWeb Content Strategist

ILR Schooltls245@cornell.edu

@bozamozam

Working for an academic institution.Migrating a website.

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• Speech Writer• Government Relations• PR and Marketing• Web Communications

• Migrate NYU.edu from a static site to CMS (Adobe CQ)• Bringing groups and sites from outside into a single

system

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ILR not IRL(but IRL)

https://cornell.widencollective.com

The New York State School of Industrial and

Labor Relations

http://kheelcenter.tumblr.com/

I Love Reading?• Branding problem • Long history in Labor• Active HR Alumni• Strong faculty• Conflicting views on what the school is

“selling” and offering

SILOS!

LaborHR UG

GRADProfessional

SILOS!

Faculty

CommonSpot

Drupalimage: Rube Goldberg

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Agile Shop.

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(not agile)

Hard Deadline January 15, 2015

Agile Shop.

image: http://smokejumperstrategy.com/

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Most Valuable Player≠

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Most Valuable Player≠Minimum Viable Product=

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MVP Content Strategy• Thorough content inventory

• finished but after launch• Work as much with clients/stakeholders as possible

given the timeframe• Rethink / Rewrite / Reorg, Move As Is• Migrate content

(Strategery?)

Pro• Identify content that doesn’t need to be

migrated• Improve the contributor experience• Improve site reliability• Everyone has to go along with it • Must finish the task • No matter what, produce something new

http://www.higheredgeek.com/

Con• Not flexible if things change• It really is a minimum product• No time for content assessment• No time for content rewrites• No time for content collection

http://www.albany.asn.au/

A Bare Bones Strategy(not the company that makes BBEdit)

The Website• Limited content types. Got specific.• Built in tagging system to help meet use cases• Created categories to increase functionality• Used publishing options (featured, sticky) to create

additional use cases• Mobile first• Limited theming • Basic Cornell University branding • Limited navigation• Kept side navigation operation same in mobile as desktop

User Roles• First piece of culture change• Limited number of user roles (admin, contributor)• A few specialty user roles for specific functionality • Contributors have the ability to edit the whole site• Everyone on their best behavior• Encouraging content exchange across the site• Encouraging familiar user experience

Migrate, Migrate, Migrate

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The Good• Site launched “on time”• Essential content was in• Site is on Acquia and has had no downtime • Spawned conversations with stakeholders

(not all positive)• Identified key projects moving forward• Set priorities• Identified areas where we need to improve

as a team

• Implemented change

The Bad• Broken things (are now fixed)

• Not good client interaction

• Loss of trust (all the trust)

• Content STILL needs a rewrite

• Things were moved, but not

necessarily in the best places

The Ugly● Angry people were angry● Mean people were mean● Two stakeholders moved

properties elsewhere● Some groups

wouldn’t/couldn’t speak to us

● Town halls to listen to complaints

● Had to focus on HiPPO needs, eroding trust in other groups

● Build some functionality that’s no longer used (attrition)

● 3-6 Months cleaning up the mess

Student Feedback• 3 months after launch• 38 Undergraduate and 3 Graduate students interviewed• 25 of those polled had used the new website since January 15• 17 had not. Roughly 40%. • Of that 25:

• 18 liked the new website • 2 strongly did not • 5 were ambivalent toward it

• Of that 25:• 17 found what they were looking for • 8 did not and had to go through some other means to get it, i.e call or visit

associated office

Culture Change

https://www.aliexpress.com

Hyper-engaged Stakeholders

http://aboutislam.net

More Purposeful Meetings• Weekly project meetings with major stakeholders• Groups with identifiable goals/outcomes• Representatives from individual silos• Acknowledge school-wide needs, not just silo

https://www.usability.gov

Group Hug

• Involve everyone in the process• Micro-managing (hopefully) turns to trust

https://reachingforsoul.wordpress.com

Build Trust• You are starting at zero • Incremental growth gives an opportunity to

prove yourselves again and again

http://rhapsodystrategies.com/

Change the Process• Broke work down into smaller stories• Created an order to our work that is shared

with all stakeholders (REQ, U/X, ENG, ART)• Created in-team quality control/review

https://http://www.discoverwildlife.com

Inform Stakeholders

http://www.shutterstock.com/

Include Stakeholders

https://www.sivers.org

Avoid the Pitfall of Saying “No”• We know what it takes to do this and some things

sound crazy.• Identify the real need.

Testing and Data• Stakeholders acknowledge data is

important• Want to use it to identify

strengths/weaknesses• Want more

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Data

Student Testing

Student Testing• 17 students / 20 minute test time• Look is ok• Search is how they find things • Google and site search• Don’t see our left hand navigation• Don’t need to use the site• Other resources available to them to do specific tasks

(Handshake, Cornell Courses, etc)• They want student stories ALWAYS• Admissions primary driver (UG, Grad, Professional)

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Thank you!

Tim SenftWeb Content Strategist

ILR Schooltls245@cornell.edu

@bozamozam

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