Debra Goldentyer, Haas School of Business
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Web video, e-business, XML, content management, web navigation, learning management systems — got questions about any of these? Wish you had someone nearby to help work them out? You'll find a core of others struggling with the same issues right here on campus — and talking about them via Webnet.
If you work on a UC Berkeley website — editing, designing, programming, managing content, developing applications — you need to be part of Webnet (http://webnet.berkeley.edu/). Webnet is a network of several hundred people at Berkeley (from novices to seasoned web developers) also editing, designing, programming, managing content, and developing applications, just like you.
Webnet consists of the umbrella Webnet group and two very active subgroups. Each meets monthly. Webnet members get together to discuss web applications and systems. Webnet's Limited Resources Group discusses the ongoing struggle of maintaining websites with too little time, too few people, and too small a budget. The Web Editors Group is for web editors and designers dealing with issues of interface, navigation, usability, design, and content on what are becoming ever more complex but ever essential campus websites.
Best of all is the Webnet mailing list. Can't get your script to run? Stymied by a JavaScript error? Need to do a quick usability test? Struggling with how to repurpose a print brochure for online reading? Need testers for your beta site? Sending a message to Webnet will generate a dozen quick and insightful responses.
One of the advantages of working at UC Berkeley is the wealth of resources available to us professionally. Take advantage of Webnet to make your work easier.
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Berkeley Computing & Communications,
Volume 12, Number 4 (Fall 2002)
Copyright 2002, The Regents of the University of California