Herding Cats

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Herding Cats building an enrollment focused web strategy

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University Website

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The only piece of information common to both circles is, “full name of school”

True or False Most college web sites are bad?

How important is the Web for enrollment?

100% have viewed at least one college or university Web site

92% Will be disappointed or take a college off their list if they do not find what they need

24% Will REALLY take your school off their list because of a bad web experience

65% Will become more interested because of a positive experience on your site

The web is now mission critical

Higher g Education:

the toughest gig in all the web

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Too often, campus leadership views the web as a cost center rather than as a strategic asset

Without W b Strategy Web St t

The web Th b iis th thought ht off as a collection ll ti off micro-sites i it rather th than a single entity. Academic departments and administrative units think they have their own sites rather than being part of a larger web presence. presence

Usability suffers because visitors expect a unified web presence and instead find a site that is graphically diverse and d diffi difficult lt tto navigate. i t

The Entire Site Matters!

There are no articulated, measurable goals making it difficult to measure the ROI of web efforts.

With everyone doing their own thing, there are resource inefficiencies result in wasting time and money.

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HIghest Paid Person’s Opinion

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Web Strategy The translation of organizational objectives and values into high-level management directives for the web - Lisa Welchman

Web Strategy A successful Web Strategy achieves two results: 1. Guiding Principles ‐ describe how the organization will use the Web to support the organization’s core values and b i business objectives bj ti 2. Formalization of Authority – ensures that authority for Web Governance, Web Execution and Web Measurement are clearly articulated and properly resourced

Institutional Strategy

Communications Strategy

Content Strategy

Web Strategy

IT Strategy

Social Media Strategy

Strategic Planning Questionnaire • • • • • •

Mission/Vision Audience(s) Branding Content Social Media Technology

Strategic Planning Questionnaire Site Mission/Vision •

What is the mission of the organization? How does the web site support this mission?



Give a one sentence mission statement on the purpose of the site



What is the main business problem the site will solve?



Why would someone visit the site?

Strategic Planning Questionnaire Site Mission/Vision •

What are the key features that are most critical?



What are the short and long term goals for the site?



How do you envision the site 2 years from now? 5 years from now?



How will you measure success?

Strategic Planning Questionnaire Audience(s) •

Who is the most important audience for the site? Who are the secondary audiences? Do these audiences have different needs and expectations?



What will each of these audiences want to do when they visit the site? What are their top tasks?

Strategic Planning Questionnaire Audience(s) •

Why will they come and what will make them return?



How do you currently interact with these audiences?



Is there a difference between the most important audiences and the audiences who will use the site most frequently? What are the implications?

The web is first and foremost an enrollment tool

True Strategic g Planningg • Establishes authority and accountability • Defines the roll of all campus units as it relates to the web and establishes how they will support web efforts • Involves In ol es senior leadership • Involves line management • Involves the entire campus • Establishes Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) • Is not a one-off process

The Web Is Not a Project

Is your site sustainable?

Decentralized Organizational Structures

The central web team does not own the web site

Understand that individual academic departments and administrative units have unique needs.

Find the delicate balance between autonomy and accountability.

Web Teams

IT or Marketing

C Concluding l di Thoughts h h

C Concluding l di Thoughts h h

Higher Hi h Ed Education ti is Getting Flattened

Flattened

When the impact of the internet and globalization render and industry unrecognizable, and in many cases, obsolete

“Most institutions can no longer afford to be what they’ve become”

graduate from a production shop to a strategic shop

webgovernance.com Coming May 2011

Th k Y Thank You

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