Transcript Princes, paupers and progress Resourcing your Web site IWMW-2000, University of Bath Miles Banbery, University of Kent.

Princes, paupers and progress
Resourcing your Web site
IWMW-2000, University of Bath
Miles Banbery, University of Kent
Using what you have
Spending money wisely
Recruiting well
Buying excellence
Sharing resources with others
Working to closely defined remit
Re-cycling
Gaining what you need
Raising more money
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Participation – internally and externally
Proposals that are articulate and sound
Pandering – do what people want
Persuade others – enthuse and inform
Professionalism – people need faith in you to
invest
– Proven results and successes
Where to get money from (1)
Outside sources
– Research funding
– Teaching quality enhancement
– Consultancy for outside agencies
Where to get money from (2)
From within
– Targeting work in line with institutional
priorities
– Having strategies/policies/interested and
informed committees – be tied in
– Working with/for other departments (use their
budgets)
– Taking risks – do first, then seek authority
– Good project proposals and management
How to be efficient
What to spend money on
– Software and development
– Hardware
– People and training / keeping informed
What can you outsource or share with
other departments?
Good equipment, good management –
happy staff, more work!
Being professional
Setting and meeting deadlines
Explain, inform, educate
Fixing service levels
Gaining qualifications / training certificates
Keeping the glass half full…
Job tracking / helpdesk system
Proving usefulness
Measures of assessment
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Annual reports
User evaluation processes
Keeping notes
Web stats / tracking / analysing
Successfully recorded events (forms, requests,
applications)
Getting people to work for you
Buying products and not people
Student projects (not just at home)
Cheap labour
Manage someone else’s employee for them
– 1 day per week as reward