Beyond Email: Collaborative Technologies For the 21st Century
Developing A Deployment Strategy
Brian Kelly
UKOLN
About This Session
In this group exercise you will develop a deployment strategy
for use of collaborative technologies
Possible scenarios:
- An event
- Supporting colleagues and co-workers
- Supporting your organisational activities
Your Notes
Deployment Challenges
Areas in which you will need to develop deployment strategies include:
- Identifying user needs
- Addressing legal issues, user concerns, etc.
- Getting buy-in from the users of the technologies
- Getting acceptance and support from IT services
- Getting resources
- Evaluation, feedback and enhancement
Your Notes
Addressing The Deployment Challenges
Select deployment area and describe how you'd address challenges
- Identifying user needs
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- Getting buy-in from the users of the technologies
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- Addressing legal issues and user concerns
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- Getting acceptance and support from IT services
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- Getting resources
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- Evaluation, feedback and enhancement
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Your Notes
Example: My Web Management Workshop
- Identifying user needs:
- Listening to mailing lists; spotting the enthusiasts; initial experiments; ...
- Getting buy-in from the users of the technologies:
- Encourage the enthusiasts; scare the sceptics (students will be doing this
soon, so you'd better find out about it)
- Addressing legal issues and user concerns:
- Produce an AUP;
seek permission; ...
Your Notes
Example: My Web Management Workshop
- Getting acceptance and support from IT services:
- Find a venue with a friendly IT service dept. Persuade them that you
understand their concerns, and that they will also learn from the experiment
- Getting resources:
- Use open source software; experiment beforehand; if have problems, be honest
("we're doing leading-edge stuff, and sometimes it will go wrong")
- Evaluation, feedback and enhancement:
- Listening to feedback; formal evaluation form; enhancements when repeated.
Your Notes
Questions
Any questions?
Your Notes