Here is a very good idea from The Ohio State University (thanks to Will Richardson, the K-12 blog guru from Weblogg-Ed for the tip) .
The Communication and Marketing Department at OSU has been using a web blog “to inform the Ohio State community about the process behind an upcoming redesign of (the) web site’s front door, as well as associated, new second-level pages.”
The OSU redesign webblog is a central place to share design sketches, project updates and suggestions. Thanks to the “comment” blog feature, any stakeholder who follows the project can easily give feedback.
I really think this blog beats the traditional redesign committee’s status reports and meetings, because it gives every stakeholder a chance to look at the design in the context it’s supposed to work – on a computer screen – and to give instant – yet articulated – written feedback.
MORE: I’ve just found another redesign blog: A New Arizona.edu. It was just started last month, but it’s already promising as The University of Arizona‘s web team has an impressive website redesign resume.
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That’s great. You might want to consider the grandaddy of all ‘edu’ redesign sites.
Cornell.edu Redesign.
They have been using a blog to do ‘many’ redesigns since July 2004.