The WEBCOMM The EGEA Website and Communication Committee
What is the WEBCOMM?
The committee is the working group of EGEA members that take care and develop the main tool of communication in EGEA: THE WEBSITE
How does the WEBCOMM work?
Structure
Speaker, that will represent the committee in EGEA, coordinate the activities and the goals and plans. And will coordina the report of the activities done.
Members. Eventually, members can be organised in Tasks Groups.
How does the WEBCOMM work?
Tasks
Moderating the current website
Developing New Website: webmaster tasks
Defining the new Website structure, contents and visibility. Hot topics here are:
Front page
Thematic Groups
Entity pages
Congress pages
Member pages
Design
Publications section
...
How does the WEBCOMM work?
Tasks Groups
Editors Team
Collecting information about EGEA (protocols, committees working papers, etc) and editing it for online publication
Deciding about the edition of scientific/geographic articles in different sections of the new website
Geotechnologies Team: Thinking group of how to implement the new technologies in geography and maps in the website (ex. gadgets,e tc..)
New website testers
Teaching new WEBCOMM members to gurantee the continuity of the commitee
Goals of the WEBCOMM
Some realistic goals will be defined in the WEBCOMM during next meeting.
Existing goals
Analyzing necessary functionalities
Collecting proposals from users
Manage the website creation
Training Egeans to deal with Drupal* in different levels.
Have a live meeting before the end of 2008
* Drupal is the system it is going to be used in the new website
WEBCOMM Motivations
Egea website needs a renovation not only technical but conceptual.
A big challenge comes for the webcomm: the construction of a new website
Make Egea website more suitable for egea needs.
WEBCOMM implies it is not only limited to the website but compromises the whole egea communication strategy.
WEBCOMM
If you believe that Egea Website can be a better place, more functional, better ordered, giving a better image of us... JOIN US!
If you believe that some contents of the current website need more information, and have some clue of which one is missing... JOIN US!
If you have ideas about the new website and would like that those ideas turn to be facts... JOIN US!
If you see the importance of moderating the forums and you wanna give a hand in taking care of it (killing spammers, reminding to use english, moving posts, etc)... JOIN US!
Recruiting WEBCOMM members
If you know something about google earth, web 2.0, web3.0 and would like to implement it in the forum... JOIN US!
If you want to have a website/blog made by you, and you don’t know where to start, and EGEA websitepage can be a good environment to learn it... JOIN US!
If you are only enthuasiastic ... JOIN US!
Recruiting WEBCOMM members
Benefits of joining WEBCOMM now
The satisfaction of helping the main tool of communication in EGEA.
Developing editor skills
Getting experience in online communities management.
Belonging of a new group in action, where new ideas are very welcomed and easier to change the schema.
Joining the WEBCOMM live meetings!!
... and more!!!
WEBCOMM FAQ
Q: I don’t know anything about programming, is it a problem?
Unless you wanna develop the new website, those skills are not needed. The new website can be managed without having to script anything.
Q: How can I join the WEBCOMM?
Write in the contact form of the website what you could / would like to do!
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