Three people from the department of quantitative economics visited me and we talked about their ideas concerning the new department website. Stressing that they want a hierarchy free menu structure they added some points that are missing from the current minimal version. The points should be on the top menu:
- Research and Education
- List of research projects containing a short description and a link to the research project website.
- List of programs where members of the department teach
- List of topics for theses
- general links
Another point discussed was the need for a calender that includes events, seminars, conferences, et cetera. How to aggregate this information is hard to do for one person. The solution should allow everybody who knows about an appropriate event/seminar/conference to update this calender with little effort. Now such information is on the personal pages like this http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/e-tsakas/EGT/Conferences%20%28EGT%29.htm.
One solution can be a small form on the website where people can suggest events that then get put into the Calender by another person (editor).
Privacy is also a big topic it seems. Nevertheless there is the demand for having a profile picture together with contact information visible on the STAFF section. The images should have the same style and background and will be taken in the department. An additional point was raised that the three tracks and the division between Professors | PhD students | staff are also represented in the STAFF section. Interesting for me is whether or not this is a real improvement or just a way to make differentiations where non should be.
LATEX for google.documents is available here. It would be good to see if it also works, maybe somebody can try this out.
For now I hope that somebody provides me with the content for the additional points.
By the way, here is the list of people who will get a training in GX: You will be contacted in the coming weeks:
Pomme Theunissen (EuropeanCorner) - PLHM.theunissen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Walter Hendriks (NSI) - w.hendriks@maastrichtuniveristy.nl
Claudia van Oppen (SME/MKB portal) - C.vanoppen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Renée Rijnders (IRO) - r.rijnders@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Nicole Hulsman (Assistent, Economics) - n.hulsman@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Y. Paulissen (Assistent, Quantitative Economics) - Y.Paulissen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Adela Buttolo (Organization and Strategy) - a.buttolo@maastrichtuniversity.nl
M. Vanwegberg (Organization and Strategy) - M.vanwegberg@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Luijten Cecile (Assistent, Finance) - l.cecile@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Datta Hannes (PhD Student, Marketing & Supply Chain Management) h.datta@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Glenn Westenberg (Technical Assistant; Education Research and Development) - g.westenberg@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Paul Jacobs (Managing the old Education Research and Development Website) - p.jacobs@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Erik Peek (Accounting & Information Managment) - e.peek@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Rick Cuijpers (Accounting & Information Managment) - r.cuijpers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Walter Hendriks (NSI) - w.hendriks@maastrichtuniveristy.nl
Claudia van Oppen (SME/MKB portal) - C.vanoppen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Renée Rijnders (IRO) - r.rijnders@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Nicole Hulsman (Assistent, Economics) - n.hulsman@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Y. Paulissen (Assistent, Quantitative Economics) - Y.Paulissen@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Adela Buttolo (Organization and Strategy) - a.buttolo@maastrichtuniversity.nl
M. Vanwegberg (Organization and Strategy) - M.vanwegberg@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Luijten Cecile (Assistent, Finance) - l.cecile@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Datta Hannes (PhD Student, Marketing & Supply Chain Management) h.datta@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Glenn Westenberg (Technical Assistant; Education Research and Development) - g.westenberg@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Paul Jacobs (Managing the old Education Research and Development Website) - p.jacobs@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Erik Peek (Accounting & Information Managment) - e.peek@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Rick Cuijpers (Accounting & Information Managment) - r.cuijpers@maastrichtuniversity.nl
> An additional point was raised
ReplyDelete> that the three tracks and the division
> between Professors | PhD students |
> staff are also represented in the STAFF
> section. Interesting for me is whether
> or not this is a real improvement or just
> a way to make differentiations where non
> should be.
I would recommend sticking to this division because it's easier to locate people that way. Further I'll be good to have this information directly be fed from a database - makes it easier to incorporate changes. (e.g., automatic mail every once in a while to staff so that they update their profile pages).
The KE department recommends the following points (which the Marketing department comments on):
ReplyDelete> List of research projects containing a short description and a link to the research project website.
We don't have websites to particular projects, but think it's good to list research projects shortly. Maybe the paper database can contain ongoing research projects as well? The information could be taken from there, then. Also add working papers?
> List of programs where members of the department teach
Also good.
> List of topics for theses
Needed urgently. Should be self-administrable through individual staff-logins. We've got such a database running on our old website (marketingsite.nl), but it's currently not up-to-date. Database could anyhow serve as an inspiration.