Managing the Human Side
of Web Redesign

Why Did We Do This Anyway?

Advice and Consent

Audience, Audience, Audience

President’s Ambassadors (impressions, debriefing)
High school students (questions, debriefing)
High school counselors
Community members

Scoreboard

Changes

“Suggest a change to this page”

Roadblocks

Accreditation visits
Inaccurate information
Fear: lowest common denominator

Sneak Preview

More time for content review
More time to develop new features
Timeline
Testimonials

Final Countdown

May 15 public launch

Training for content managers

Announcing to alumni, public

What’s Next

Testing with parents, international students
Responding to suggestions
Creating a system for checking new pages
Reviewing site by section
Finding a new webmaster