THE FOLLOWING POWERPOINT HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR

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THE FOLLOWING POWERPOINT HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR
ATTENTIVE AUDIENCES
BY THE WISCONSIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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Redesigning wisconsinhistory.org
James Ellis WHS Web Site Producer
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By The Numbers

• 12,000
• 11
• 2
• 2
• 1 (10)
• 3,000
• 12

Budget (web design)
Months
Full Time Employees
Part Time Employees
Web Team people
Pages (FrontPage)
Applications
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How to Redesign (The Layers)

• Information Architecture
• Applications
• Design
• Buy-In
• Implementation
• Launch

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What Librarians Get
Right
Wrong

• Organization

• Overly Organized

• Understands Archiving

• Not Used to Flexibility(80/20 rule)

• Understands Information Retrieval

• The Web is Not a Library

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