Following in the footsteps of Ohio State University, Cornell University and Duke University among others, Ball State University has launched a blog dedicated to the relaunch of its website: Relaunching bsu.edu.
Maintained by Nancy Prater, BSU University Web Coordinator, this blog will be used as the main communication channel to announce changes and collect feedback via the comments as explained in a post dated August 31st, 2006:
“Work is underway on the relaunch of the Ball State University Web site.
To help you follow the process, University Marketing and Communications (formerly University Communications) has created this blog to discuss developments.
The relaunch includes two main initiatives:
* the re-architecting and redesign of the site to make it more logical in its structure and more visually appealing
* the selection of a new Web content management system (CMS), which is the back-end system used to run the Web site”
[…] On a side note, Karine Joly tips us off to the Relaunching bsu.edu redesign blog. Those of you that have read this blog for awhile will remember my infatuation with the Cornell Redesign blog. BSU’s effort, led by Nancy Prater, promises to be equally as enjoyable to watch. Their PDF of the CMS requirements issued in their request for proposals is must reading, alone. So, check out the site and consider all that must go into a site’s redesign. It is no small task. The open involvement of stakeholders, to me, is the best aspect of this and I wonder why more universities don’t do it on many other projects they undertake annually. […]