Panel session on “Avoiding Portal Wars” given at the IWMW 2002 event. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/talks/panel/

1. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 1Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
Paisley staff portal
(how we’ve tried to anticipate some problems)
Tony Shaw
Dir. Network and Information Systems Management
University of Paisley

2. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 2Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
History/plan
1996
1998
2000
2001
2002
2002
(sep
t)
emphasis on intranet
Staff Intranet Co-ordinator post created
Portal strategy document published
(continued to be revised/published)
Portal purchased/prototyped produced
VC directly involved/briefed
period of deployment and limited development
replaces existing intranet site

3. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 3Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
Key related activities
Tracking commercial sector products, prices
and projects
Anticipating some possible problems
hype surrounding VLE/MLE
faculty developments
significant organisational changes taking place

4. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 4Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
Some tactics employed
involvement of VC
confirms strategic nature of project, gets into plans
content contributor clarity continued
partner with others
e.g. faculty web site connector
broaden ‘ownership’
e.g. manager channel

5. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 5Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
Portal

6. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 6Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
gateway to resources

7. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 7Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
faculty site integration

8. Institutional Web Management Workshop 2002 : The Pervasive Web 8Avoiding Portal warsAvoiding Portal wars
“ownership” for managers