Www.allwalesunit.gov.uk Presentation by Clare Drew – Goss Interactive Steve Thomson – All Wales...

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www.allwalesunit.gov.uk Presentation by Clare Drew – Goss Interactive Steve Thomson – All Wales Unit

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Presentation byClare Drew – Goss Interactive

Steve Thomson – All Wales Unit

Agenda

• Introductions & project overview• CONTROLSITE & the All Wales Unit• What is content management?• Why content management?• What is CONTROLSITE?• Why CONTROLSITE?• How does CONTROLSITE work?• CONTROLSITE demonstration• AWU & DoH Screenshots• Questions and answers

All Wales Unit Purpose

• Support Local Authority Social Services in policy development, implementation and review.

• Help facilitate effective information sharing between Local Authorities in relation to Social Services and allied functions.

• Support Local Authorities in cross border collaboration and joint working with their partner agencies in the statutory, private and voluntary sectors

All Wales Unit Activities

• Providing assistance to existing All Wales Groups such as ADSS, Heads of Children’s Services and Heads of Adult Services.

• Undertaking specific time limited Projects.

• Developing an interactive web site – to be launched Autumn 2002. collecting and disseminating information.

• Work in partnership with other initiatives, agencies and projects such as the Local Government Data Unit, Syniad, SCIE and the Performance Management Project

Website Aims

• Publicise the Unit – Your site

• Promote best practice– other areas for secure groups

• Allow others to contribute– at present the 22 SSD’s

• Share information– someone, somewhere may have done it

before...

All Wales Unit Website

• Multiple editorial access to a number of contributors over a web-based platform

• Rapid & simple updating of website content without the need to use complex web authoring software

• Creation of a unique tool/model for information exchange between Authorities social services departments.

• Public facing section of the site & secure area for members, accessible via username & passwords

• Content personalisation for site users• Bobby & W3C approved public pages

AWU Website

Summary

• The site will have ‘public pages’ and secure areas

– forum for problem solving

• Authority ‘champions’ who can contribute best practice work

– separate editor

• Some practice may be developmental so secure ‘members only’ area to share with colleagues

Issues

• Editorial control

• Training

• Capacity and resources

• Interernet access

Benefits

• Flexible, immediate & interactive website• Regular updating of articles• Prevents ‘stale’ site & keeps people coming

back• Promotes collaboration• Highlights the positive in Welsh Social Services

Goss Interactive & the All Wales Unit

An overview

Goss & the All Wales Unit

• Website interface by Goss Design• Implementation of CONTROLSITE content

management system• Project build and technical development• Fully managed hosting service• Support services

Content Management

An introduction to the benefits

What is content management?

• Content management is the ability to enable appropriate personnel to effortlessly manage and deliver information across multiple channels.

• Content management relieves the bottleneck of information from IT departments.

• Content Management Systems (CMS) are applications which provide user-friendly interfaces allowing non-technical people to manage and deploy content.

Why content management?

• Relieve the bottle neck of information from IT• Ensure more appropriate use of IT resources• Enable site content to be regularly updated• Maintain site consistency• Ensure devolved maintenance of information• Save time and reduce costs• ‘Write once, re-use anywhere’• Automate processes• Rapid and effective delivery of services and

information to citizens

CONTROLSITE

Overview of Goss Interactive’s CMS application

What is CONTROLSITE?

• CONTROLSITE is Goss Interactive’s own content management application

• Developed by UK based team over the past three years

• Product development driven by client requirements

• CONTROLSITE encompasses content management, personalisation and ecommerce

• CONTROLSITE implemented by Goss Interactive or through UK based implementation partners

How does our CMS work?

• Content (data and media) is entered into a central store through use of a CMS.

• Content can then be easily manipulated and ordered via user-friendly interfaces.

• Content is displayed in customisable forms (templates) for different delivery mechanisms.

• Delivery mechanisms include websites, intranets, extranets, interactive television, PDA’s WAP & XML etc

http://www.doh.gov.uk/scg/bestpractice/

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Next Steps

• High resolution image for your Authority– Straight away please

• Best Practice article– Max 1 ½ sides of A4– With a picture for the article if preferred

• If you know the Editor, let me know• Next meeting

Questions & Answers

Thank you for your time!