My second UB column for 2008 is now available in the April issue as well as online: “It’s 2008: Is Your 911 Website Ready?”
When I wrote this article, my goal was to give you a good piece of third-party validation (hey, you can even print the article so it looks like it was xeroxed from the magazine and share it with your favorite VP and president) to get to work on your crisis web template.
You’ll find in this column 8 tips from several of your peers (including Mike Dame of Virginia Tech) to get you started.
After interviewing Mike for this article, I thought that this would also make a great topic for a webinar for Higher Ed Experts. Mike agreed and will present this special webinar on May 7, 2008:
911 Website: How to design your crisis/emergency web template
Michael Dame, Director of Web Communications at Virginia Tech, will explain why every higher education institution should prepare a crisis web template and how Virginia Tech’s made a big difference on April 16, 2007. He will also walk you through the steps necessary to build a best-of-breed crisis website and share a basic coded template to get you started
For more information and to register (by April 28, 2008), please visit www.higheredexperts.com/911website
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Related posts:
- Virginia Tech Tragedy: Has your institution posted a statement about the tragedy? Virginia Tech Web team wants to recognize your support on its website
- Virginia Tech Tragedy: Crisis unfolding on the website homepage
- Virginia Tech Tragedy: Crisis communication on the university website homepage
- Virginia Tech Tragedy: Evaluating VT Web crisis communication plan
- Virginia Tech Tragedy: Lessons learned in crisis communication a day after the unthinkable
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